You have your new Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct hyperconverged HyperV Failover Cluster built.
How can we move your workloads from your existing Hyper-V Failover Cluster to this new farm with Zero Downtime?
Well this process is extremely easy to accomplish using Cluster to Cluster Shared-Nothing Live Migration.
I have used the process below a lot in production and it works great!
Here is the actual step-by-step Method of Procedure Document (MOP) that we use for this.
Shared Nothing Live Migration from Hyper-V Cluster to another Hyper-V Cluster (Without Down Time)
In this solution, you will be able to migrate Virtual Machines between two Hyper-V Clusters without down time using Shared Nothing Live Migration. The steps below outline the process required to achieve these results.
Prerequisites
Infrastructure Servers Requirements
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Migration Steps – Reverting to Standalone Virtual Machine from Highly Available
- Login to the Source Hyper-V Cluster and open Failover Cluster Manager
- Expand Cluster and select Roles.
- Right-click on the Source Virtual Machine and select Remove
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This step simply removes the Virtual Machine from the cluster and changes the availability of the Virtual Machine from Highly Available to Standalone. |
Migration Steps – Using Shared Nothing Live Migration to move the Virtual Machine to the target CSV Volume
- Open Hyper-V Manager and Right-click on the Source Virtual Machine that was removed from the cluster in the steps above and select Move.
- On the Before You Begin page, click Next.
- On the Choose Move type page, select Move the virtual machine and then click Next.
- On the Specify Destination Computer page, click Browse...
- Type the server name of the Target Cluster Node, click Check Names and click OK.
- Click Next on the Specify Destination Computer page.
- On the Choose Move Options page, select Move the virtual machine’s data to a signal location, click Next.
- Click Browse on the Choose a new location for virtual machine page.
- Click C drive and Select ClusterStorage folder.
- Select the desired destination Cluster Shared Volume and click Select Folder.
- Click Next on the Choose a new location for virtual machine page.
- On the Summary page, review and make sure all of information are correct and then click Finish.
Migration Steps – Making the Virtual Machine Highly Available on the new Hyper-V Failover Cluster
- Login to the Target node of the new Hyper-V Failover Cluster.
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You moved the virtual machine to this node server. |
- Open Failover Cluster Manager.
- Expand Cluster and select Roles.
- On the Action pane, select Configure Role.
- On the Before You Begin page, click Next.
- On the Select Role page, select Virtual Machines and then click Next.
- Select the virtual machine which you would like to add it to the new cluster, click Next.
- Click Next on the Confirmation page.
- On Summary page, click Finish.
Follow the above steps and complete your Hyper-V migration to your new Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-V Cluster with Zero Downtime.
Hope you enjoyed and Happy Learning,
Dave


