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I have Dell R610 with 16GB RAM and 2 E5620 CPUs and Dell MD3000 SAN. It's running Windows Server Ent R2 x64 and Hyper-V with couple production VMs. What are my requirements to implement Live Migration feature?<br />
- Do I need to buy another copy of Windows Server Ent or can I use the free Hyper-V 2008 R2<br />
- DO I need to setup Clustering on both servers? I'm trying to wrap my heads around this subject to setup a failover system<br />
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I have Dell R610 with 16GB RAM and 2 E5620 CPUs and Dell MD3000 SAN. It's running Windows Server Ent R2 x64 and Hyper-V with couple production VMs. What are my requirements to implement Live Migration feature?
- Do I need to buy another copy of Windows Server Ent or can I use the free Hyper-V 2008 R2
- DO I need to setup Clustering on both servers? I'm trying to wrap my heads around this subject to setup a failover system



Hyper-V Live Migration requirements

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Virtualization

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