- Virtual Migration means virtual machine can be moved from one host to another in a variety of ways.
- Migration is the process of moving a virtual machine from one host or storage location to another.
- Copying a virtual machine creates a new virtual machine
Types of Virtual Machine Migration -
- Cold Migration - Moves a powered-off-virtual machine to a new host. optionally we can relocate configuration and disk file to new storage locations. Cold Migration can be used to migrate virtual machine from one data center to another.
- Migration of Suspended virtual machine - Moves a suspended virtual machine to a new host. We can relocate configuration and disk file to a new storage locations. We can migrate suspended virtual machine from one data center to another.
- Migration with Vmotion - VMware Vmotion support the live migration of receiving virtual machine from one physical server to another with no down time.
- Migration with storage Vmotion - Moves the virtual disko or configuration file of a powered on virtual machine to a new data store. Migration with storage Vmotion allows us to move a virtual machine storage without interruption.