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Migrate Virtual Machine from one Hyper-V host to another using Virtual Machine Manager

Today I had to migrate a Virtual Machine from the host on which there is no place to another Hyper-V host and I would like to share with you how it works.

First of all I would like to explain what types of migration have Virtual Machine Manager.

– Quick migration (cluster migration)
– SAN migration
– Live migration and VMware VMotion
– Network migration – This type of migration will be explained in this post.

As always it will be lots of pictures Smile

I this scenario, I’ll migrate virtual machine named vm-appv01 from the host eko-virtual03 to the host eko-virtual05.

Open your VMM Console and choose which VM would you want to migrate. Click Migrate Virtual Machine and the process will start.

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This is a network migration and we will get this message.

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Select host on which you want to migrate a virtual machine. In my case it’s eko-virtula05.

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On the next window choose path for the virtual machine and virtual disk or even better do it when configuring the Virtual Machine Manager.

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Select the available LAN adapter on the new host.

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At the end of the wizard click Move. If you want to turn on the server after migration to click on
Start the virtual machine after deploying it on the host.

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Migration process begins.

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After migration is complete and the virtual machine is turned on you need to do one restart because of the new hardware configuration.

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As you can see through Hyper-V manager or Virtual Machine Manager, whatever, your migrated virtual machine is up and running on a new host.

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That’s all for today.

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