LiveMigration

• Launchpad Entry: NovaSpec:bexar-migration-live
• Created: 2010-10-20
• Contributors: Kei Masumoto, Masanori Itoh, Tushar Patil

Note

• On the 2nd Design Summit, please see: http://etherpad.openstack.org/LiveMigration
• Please see attached PPT presented at the Bexar Design Summit and the above etherpad note.

Summary

Add a capability for migrating a running VM from one host to another host transparently to applications and any external entity interacting with such applications on the cloud server without taking down the cloud server and with a very negligible downtime.

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