Microsoft Corporation
Overlap Customer Planned Activity to Migrate a Virtual Machine

Abstract:

Described herein is a system and method for overlapping migration to another host node with a customer request to stop or reboot a virtual machine. A customer request is intercepted. Determination whether or not migration of the virtual machine on the source host node is capable of being performed. When the migration of the virtual machine on the source host node is capable of being performed, the virtual machine is stopped on the source host node, and, the virtual machine is migrated to an updated host node. When the customer request is a stop of the virtual machine, the virtual machine is stopped on the updated host node. When the customer request is a reboot of the virtual machine, the virtual machine is rebooted on the updated host node.