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I know that live migration is possible but I'm curious how many people actually do this. I hear much more about spawning/culling VMs quickly, than I do about li
by amirmc 12y ago
I know that live migration is possible but I'm curious how many people actually do this. I hear much more about spawning/culling VMs quickly, than I do about live migration.
- spydum 12y agoPretty much all day on busy clusters. VMware esx with DRS does this to rebalance resources.
- regularfry 12y agohttp://bigv.io http://bigv.io does, it's used every day. Qemu live migration plus storage migration means (in theory) zero-customer-downtime hardware maintenance and load balancing.
- skj 12y agoGoogle Compute Engine has live migration between datacenters. http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/google-compute-engine-live-migration-passes-test http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/googl...
- cordite 12y agoI've only seen this feature used when hosts are being upgraded at the hypervisor or physical level. In my experience, it has been more of a "keep the whole system stable and running during upgrades" rather than a daily optimization strategy.