if you don't see it in PPME admin guide i am afraid it's not supported or has not been tested. Live Migration uses clustered shared volumes (Basically Microsoft clustering) to allow concurrent access to one LUN from multiple nodes. If you look at PPME admin guide, there is a section the describes how to migrate Win2k8 clusters, there is an outage involved (during PPME commit step), plus there can only be one active node in the cluster, all other nodes need to be offline. It's probably not very likely that your your cluster nodes are sized big enough where you could move all VMs to just one node. Also the quorum (witness) disk can not be migrated with PPME.
dynamox
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March 22nd, 2012 13:00
not licensed for storage VMotion ?
dynamox
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March 22nd, 2012 13:00
Oops..it's hyper-V, Hyper-v 3.0 (windows 8) will finally have live storage vmotion.
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March 22nd, 2012 14:00
Tnank you Dynamox, we're using live Migration for our Hyper V guests
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March 22nd, 2012 14:00
I looked in Powerlink and did not find anything specific for this task. We have five nodes in the cluster.
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March 22nd, 2012 19:00
if you don't see it in PPME admin guide i am afraid it's not supported or has not been tested. Live Migration uses clustered shared volumes (Basically Microsoft clustering) to allow concurrent access to one LUN from multiple nodes. If you look at PPME admin guide, there is a section the describes how to migrate Win2k8 clusters, there is an outage involved (during PPME commit step), plus there can only be one active node in the cluster, all other nodes need to be offline. It's probably not very likely that your your cluster nodes are sized big enough where you could move all VMs to just one node. Also the quorum (witness) disk can not be migrated with PPME.
You might have to fall back to using SanCopy.