On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Devdeep Singh <devdeep.si...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> XenServer introduced support for Storage XenMotion in the latest version 
> (6.1). Storage XenMotion allows VMs to be moved from one host to another, 
> where the VMs are not located on storage shared between the two hosts. It 
> provides the option to live migrate a VM's disks along with the VM itself. It 
> is now possible to migrate a VM from one resource pool to another, or to 
> migrate a VM whose disks are on local storage, or even to migrate a VM's 
> disks from one storage repository to another, all while the VM is running. 
> More information on Storage XenMotion can be found at [1].
>
> I have filed a jira request [2] to track this feature. I plan to extend the 
> migrate vm cloudstack api call to allow migration of instances across 
> clusters. Do let me know your comments.
>
> [1] http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/24/storage_xenmotion/
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-659
>
> Regards,
> Devdeep
>

+1 to this feature.

Do you have thoughts on how the API call respond when the underlying
hypervisor doesn't support this feature?

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