Live Migration Feature for Microsoft’s Hyper-V Two Years Out!

In news that can only make VMware grin broadly, Microsoft admitted that the upcoming “live migration” feature (which VMware’s ESX Server Converter already does) will NOT be available until 2010!

Microsoft postpones live VM migration for Hyper-V two more years

“At a virtualization product launch today, Microsoft give a long-delayed demo of Hyper-V live migration, but then went on to slate the feature’s eventual release for the next edition of Windows Server. In showing the upcoming capability to a crowd of customers in Bellevue, WA, Bob Muglia, senior VP of Microsoft’s server and tools business, suggested that in the Windows Server product which follows Windows Server 2008, users will be able to instantly migrate virtualized software deployments from one server to the next, for consolidation on the fly. But the live migration demo may actually come as bad news to some data center admins, who have been looking forward to Microsoft adopting some form of live migration since 2006. Microsoft’s first delay of this feature was announced 16 months ago, after the company had promised it for ‘Longhorn,’ which became Windows Server 2008. The feature was cut, said product managers at the time, in order that Hyper-V could meet its launch window; but then that window was later scooted to 90 days after Windows Server 2008’s own launch.”