Migrating virtual machine using Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration

Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration provides you with the capability to migrate your VMs to a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host, via nothing more than a shared network, without the VMs experiencing any downtime. The nice thing about Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration, is that it provides a mechanism to non-disruptively upgrade your Hyper-V host.

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You should know that under certain circumstances, that this is a one-way migration path, when migrating directly from a Windows 2012 host to Windows 2016 or when the VM configuration version has been upgraded from version 5.0 to version 7.0, using Update-VMVersion as a post Windows 2016 migration activity. Cross ...

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