Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

Marty Chen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:49:02 GMT

Hi, can we do "Refresh virtual machine configuration" action from SCVMM? I am asking this because now that SCVMM manages every Hyper-V servers in a domain (including clustered hyper-v hosts), it makes sense to have this action available in SCVMM in order to provide unified user experience for our customers.

I know this is probable a SCVMM-domain question, but could you verify this for us?

Thanks

Marty@CSS-TW

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

Yv4n — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:11:46 GMT

Hello, very nice post !

please can you confirm or not that protocols "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" should be enabled on ISCSI Network Card.

Usually, i disable it because iscsi dont need it.

Many thanks .

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

Stefano_C — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:34:04 GMT

I thought that CSV was a requisite for Live migration but I've been told that it is not.

Is that true ? Does it work with normal clustered LUN as well ? What about the problem of having one host locking the LUN ?

Using CSV I didn't find a way to backup the VM residing on CSV volume as it seems that VSS does not work with CSV

thanks

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

Stefano_C — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:14:06 GMT

Can you add info about configuration check and modification in server Core environment.

I've been using R2 Core as host operating system and even if I got live migration working properly I'd like to check if I followed all the best practices

Thanks

Stefano

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

Bluvg — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:00:19 GMT

I thought the Cluster and Live Migration networks were both supposed to be dedicated networks (NICs). So sharing the Live Migration and Cluster networks is supported/best practice? I'd love to free up another NIC.

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

tanerultanir — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:36:21 GMT

great article. Thx...

re: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

Nóri — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:54:35 GMT

And how would those unfortunate souls that installed Server Core perform the network card configuration steps ? :-)