I’ve previously talked about the process of going from a W2008 to a W2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster. Today, I’ve tested the process out from end to end. I set up a VM on the W2008 cluster and made sure the integration components were updated by VMM 2008 R2. I then went through this process:
- I shut down the VM in VMM 2008 R2.
- I used a network migration to move the VM from the old cluster to the CSV in the new cluster.
- The job exported the VM configuration, used BITS to transfer the files and imported the VM configuration. It wrapped up the job by updating the IC’s and starting the VM.
- I logged into the VM and tested everything. All was good.
I then did some more testing to complete things:
- I RDP’d into the VM and fired up a ping –t to the default gateway. I started using IE to surf the net in the VM.
- I initiated a live migration from one host to another.
- I put a host into maintenance mode to move the VM (and another) back to the original host.
- I re-ran live migration.
Ping stayed up and running the entire time. RDP never timed out. I never saw an issue while surfing the net using IE. That a 100% pass on the tests. I think I’m feeling good about pushing this into production. I think I’ll deploy the OpsMgr agents first and then do some more tests.