{"id":10119,"date":"2009-11-30T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2009-11-30T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:12:07","slug":"how-well-does-live-migration-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10119","title":{"rendered":"How Well Does Live Migration Perform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellently.&#160; But why believe me?&#160; I\u2019ve just added a node to our cluster and moved a VM throughout the infrastructure in every combination I could think of, from host A to B, from B to A, from A to C, from C to A, from B to C \u2026 you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>While I was going this I was RDP\u2019d into that VM that was being moved using Live Migration.&#160; I ran a continuous ping from that session to the physical default gateway, a Cisco firewall.&#160; This is the result of the ping:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#160;&#160;&#160; Packets: Sent = 1174, Received = 1174, Lost = 0 (0% loss),     <br \/>Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:      <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160; Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 0ms<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What was lost?&#160; Zip!&#160; Nada!&#160; How many interruptions did I experience during my RDP session?&#160; Zip!&#160; Nada!<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nuff said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9569f8c5-4444-4a2b-bbeb-58e72984484a\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Live+Migration\" rel=\"tag\">Live Migration<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellently.&#160; But why believe me?&#160; I\u2019ve just added a node to our cluster and moved a VM throughout the infrastructure in every combination I could think of, from host A to B, from B to A, from A to C, from C to A, from B to C \u2026 you get the idea. 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