Specifications

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Figure 41. After the Live Migration has completed
In Figure 41, you can see that the vWS08-SP01 virtual machine has been moved to the WS08R2-S2
host.
Reducing Planned Downtime using Maintenance Mode
VMM 2008 R2’s new Maintenance Mode can also help reduce planned downtime of the virtualized
guests by setting up a Hyper-V host for maintenance activities. Maintenance mode either automatically
saves the state of all running virtual machines or uses Live Migration to move those virtual machines to
other available Hyper-V hosts. As you would expect, Live Migration must be enabled in order to move