[Openstack] Hot and Cold migrations between zones or regions

Jyoti Ranjan jranjan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 12:54:25 UTC 2014


It depends upon which hypervisor you do use. For e.g. if you are ESX then
they have concrete solution to migrate VMs (you can configure your data
center like that). But, it we are using KVM hypervisor then something is
cooking in direction and migration is not fully automated.


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Pieter Koorts <pieter.koorts at me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been searching for some time and nothing conclusive found yet so
> posting my question to lists.
>
> I understand that OpenStack can be split into availability zones and then
> regions so for example sake a zone is different data-hall's or racks within
> the same data centre and a region is another country or data centre.
>
> Is it possible to live migrate a virtual machine from one zone to another?
>
> Same question I suppose could apply to a region but I understand
> networking could be an issue if the region is a different network?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pieter
>
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