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Support the re-hosting of systems, applications and services with limited (or preferably no) unavailability apparent to users. Not simply cluster fail over, but changes to either hardware, OS, software, configuration.

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Migration of Exchange 2010 to AWS server

We currently have Exchange 2010 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. Our Active Directory is also on the same server. We have 2 mailbox databases and approximately 300 mailboxes. We want to move this exchange server from our self-hosted setup to…
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How to migrate SVN to new server in phased approach

I'm currently migrating my dev services (VCS, CI, CD etc) to a new environment; part of this involves moving our SVN server. I've been able to set up the new SVN server (CollabNet Subversion) and copy over the existing repository using the svnadmin…
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LVM: moving physical volumes

In a virtual server (Debian GNU/Linux 8 amd64) I have the following disks and filesystems: # pvscan PV /dev/vda1 VG vg0 lvm2 [100.00 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/vdb1 VG vg0 lvm2 [46.56 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/vda2 VG vg0 lvm2…
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AES processor instruction in Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012) preventing live migrations

We have existing Hyper-V cluster with Windows 2008 R2 and have recently begun creating a new Hyper-V cluster with Windows Server 2012. We recently added a Dell PowerEdge R710 that previously co-existed in a cluster running 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We are…
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Hyper-V Live Migration Fails

I have a failover cluster consisting of two nodes: VS1 and VS2. Each node is running Windows Server 2008 Datacenter R2 SP1. They have slightly different processors (E5335 and E5420), so I'm running my test VM in Processor Compatibility mode. The…
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Cross migration of VMs

I have two w2k8r2 machines, that are in cluster, There are also two machines that are used as shared storage (with StarWind installed). On each node of the cluster there is one VM. So tell me please is it possible to cross-live=migrate VMs? Other…
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Live migration with xVM without SAN

I have two physical servers that I'd like to setup for virtualization. I'd like to set them up in such a way so that the following goals are met: Allows live migration of guest OSes from one server to another, if I have to take one of the physical…
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Migrating websites with SSL Certificates from one IIS server to another without downtime

We're in the process of migrating some websites from one of our older Windows Server 2003 / IIS 6 Servers to a newer Windows Server 2008 / IIS 7 server. We have to migrate these websites without a lot of downtime. These websites all communicate with…
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Hyper V cluster - one VM won't migrate

We have a Failover Cluster built up on 6 blades, each running Hyper V. Each box is running Server 2008 R2. We've got a number of VMs running that all have the same basic config: VHD stored on a cluster shared volume. 2 virtual NICs (1 for LAN…
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libvirt/qemu VM freezes when migrating between specific hosts

I have several servers (different ages) running on Ubuntu 22.04 with QEMU and libvirt. When migrating VMs between some of these servers, the VM immediately freezes on the target system. Tested guests were HVM machines running current Ubuntu or…
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Oracle VM and live storage migration (like storage vMotion on VMware), is it possible?

I have to migrate VMs to new storage for a client. Hypervisor is Oracle VM, versions 3.3 & 3.4. Haven't access to the machines yet, I'm searching for info for live storage migration on this platform, Oracle VM. In Oracle docs, Oracle VM 3.4 docs…
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KVM live migration for non shared storage

I am trying to live migrate my KVM based VM from one host to another for non shared storage using virsh migrate. I have set both the hostnames at /etc/hosts on each of the host. Also I have set passwordless ssh between the hosts. Still i am not able…
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How to keep existing Exchange in new Domain

I have to migrate an entire domain xyz.local to zxy.com. We will setup new AD Controllers and migrate all users with the microsoft ADMT. Is there a way to keep the existing Exchange Server with the mailboxes and to join it to the new domain?
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Can Azure report ‘live migration’ events?

Question: Can the Azure portal report start/end times for any 'live migration' of VMs? My company is migrating VMs from our local data centre (VMWare ESX Server) to Azure cloud (Microsoft Hypervisor). Azure has a feature called 'live migration'.…
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Live migration and networking

Can anyone help me understand how networking works for any live migration of VMs. Consider two VMs with private addresses 192.168.5.100, 192.168.5.101 with gateway 192.168.5.1. They also might have public IP addresses that they might be hosting. I…
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