Re: KVM+Ceph: Live migration of I/O-heavy VM

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> > Assuming everything is on LVM including the root filesystem, only moving
> > the boot partition will have to be done outside of LVM.
>
> Since the OP mentioned MS Exchange, I assume the VM is running windows.
> You can do the same LVM-like trick in Windows Server via Disk Manager
> though; add the new ceph RBD disk to the existing data volume as a
> mirror; wait for it to sync, then break the mirror and remove the
> original disk.

Mirrors only work on dynamic disks which are a pain to revert and
cause lot's of problems with backup solutions.
I will keep this in mind as this is still better than shutting down
the whole VM.

@all
Thank you very much for your inputs. I will try some less important
VMs and then start migration of the big one.

Kind regards
Kevin
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