With quick migration, you can rapidly migrate a running virtual machine from one physical host system to another with minimal downtime.
Using Windows Server Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and the quick migration capability, you can consolidate physical servers while maintaining the availability and flexibility of business-critical services during scheduled maintenance, or quickly restore services after unplanned downtime.
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In order to use this method you must install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (preferably R2, and this is the version I will be referring to from now on), and use it to perform the migration.
When used on a failover cluster, Quick Migration is an automatic process:
For a planned quick migration, the operation saves the state of a running guest VM (memory of original server to disk/shared storage), move [...]
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