Storage Live Migration: Where's the Move Status?

We're in the process of re-working a client's cluster setup (Dell MD3220 DAS + (2) Dell R520 Hyper-V Nodes) by adding drives and a new LUN.

Note that until the new RAID array on the MD3220 has finished initializing the drives will remain Read-Only.

A Storage Live Migration (SLM) can be initiated from within Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-V Manager, or via PowerShell (Move-VMStorage on TechNet).

To see how things are moving along we can check in Hyper-V Manager:

The VHDX in question is over 500GB in size and it's taking a while to move!

Note that the VM remains online all the while and also once the SLM completes.

Once we've completed our storage re-organization we have some new workloads to configure.

Philip Elder
Microsoft High Availability MVP
MPECS Inc.
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book
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A little fun with the Microsoft Surface Pro: Desktop Data Centre

This is a pretty neat video and highlights the new Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 on a set of four _Microsoft Surface Pro_ devices.

Surface Pro Tabletop Data Centre

The original blog post on the Building Clouds blog:

• Surface Pro Hijinks: The Video

This setup certainly gives us food for thought as far as some of the virtualization options that we can offer for our SMB/SME clients.

Take things one step further with a failover cluster and we have resource redundancy as opposed to resource portability.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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Intel Modular Server Hyper-V Cluster LiveMeeting In 10

We will run through some of the configuration processes that we went through to get the Intel Modular Server configured for a highly available Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 cluster.

We will have a highly available SBS 2008 VM as well as a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 VM running on the cluster to use for the Live Migration.

Where:

• LiveMeeting: IMS Config and Live Migration

There is also a link on our Web site.

We will try and record the LiveMeeting.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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Intel Modular Server Configuration and Live Migration LiveMeeting Tomorrow AM

Here is an invitation that has a little bit more lead time to it! ;)

We will run through some of the configuration processes that we went through to get the Intel Modular Server configured for a highly available Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 cluster.

We will have a highly available SBS 2008 VM as well as a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 VM running on the cluster to use for the Live Migration.

Where:

• LiveMeeting: IMS Config and Live Migration

When:

• January 15, 2010 at 0700Hrs Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7).

There is also a link on our Web site.

We will try and record the LiveMeeting.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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Intel Modular Server – Hyper-V Live Migration Success!

Apologies for the short notice for the Hyper-V Live Migration test LiveMeeting that we just ran!

However, it was a success! :)

We had a Windows 7 highly available VM on the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 cluster migrate live between nodes 2 and 1 on the Intel Modular Server cluster!

Some time was spent on the IMS configuration and a few of the hiccups we ran into getting to the point where we could run a successful test.

Thank you to all those that took out about 45 minutes of your day to check it out.

Unfortunately, it looks as though the recording cannot be posted due to a technical glitch! Chalk it up to a LiveMeeting n00b at the wheel. ;)

We will try and schedule another test run through with some background configuration pointers hopefully tomorrow.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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Intel Modular Server – Hyper-V Cluster Live Migration Test at 15:00Hrs

Well, we are going to give the Hyper-V cluster Live Migration feature a test run:

• LiveMeeting: Live Migration Test Run

We will start the process in 30 minutes. The meeting run is 30 minutes in length and will be recorded for later viewing.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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Intel Modular Server – Hyper-V Cluster – Want to See A Live Migration?

As we get ready to flatten the current first test run setups on the 1U management server and the Intel Modular Server itself, we will be doing a second test run at getting things set up starting tomorrow.

Once we have everything up and running as we expect, we will be running a couple of Live Migration attempts with an SBS OS based VM and a Windows 7 based VM.

Tentative time will be this coming Wednesday morning.

Please comment if that works.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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