Migrating virtual machine using Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration
Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration provides you with the capability to migrate your VMs to a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host, via nothing more than a shared network, without the VMs experiencing any downtime. The nice thing about Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration, is that it provides a mechanism to non-disruptively upgrade your Hyper-V host.
Note
You should know that under certain circumstances, that this is a one-way migration path, when migrating directly from a Windows 2012 host to Windows 2016 or when the VM configuration version has been upgraded from version 5.0 to version 7.0, using Update-VMVersion
as a post Windows 2016 migration activity. Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration only allows for live migration in the opposite direction if the Hyper-V host is running Windows 2012 R2.
Given the increased cadence around the Windows operating system, Microsoft introduced features like Cross...