Migrating virtual machines using Shared Nothing Live Migration

Mobility! That's the word that comes up when talking about Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. On previous versions of Hyper-V, the Live Migration was introduced as a feature that allows you to move virtual machines from one node to another in a cluster with no downtime. It basically moves the virtual machine memory and the VM configuration from one node to another and switches the server access to the storage. It is handy when you need to run any maintenance task on the host server or in case of scalability, for example. The only problem was the dependency of a shared storage in a cluster environment.

Although Live Migration still exists on Windows Server 2012 with lots of improvements, Hyper-V 2012 can now move any running virtual machine from one server to another and the only requirement is a network connection, simple as that. There is no need for clustered environments to move your VMs across your servers. For a cloud infrastructure...