Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rajesh Dave

Lars Reuther

Sergey Dmitriyevich Meshcheryakov

Angshuman Bezbaruah

David Allen Dion

Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu

Christopher Leland Eck

Jonathan Fischer

Steven Ekren

Chris Eck

Migration of a virtual machine and associated files to a destination host may be performed. A source host may initiate establishment of a temporary network file share at a destination location of the destination host to provide the source host and the destination host with access to the file share. While the virtual machine is running at the source host, a storage migration and a live migration may be initiated. Using the network file share, the source host may copy the associated files to the destination location. A runtime state of the virtual machine may be copied to the destination host. In a final phase of the migration, the virtual machine at the source host may be stopped, the storage migration may be completed, the copying of the runtime state may be completed, and the virtual machine may be started at the destination host.

Combined live migration and storage migration using file shares and mirroring

A health monitoring technique monitors the health and performance of applications executing in a guest partition in a virtualized environment. In an embodiment, a guest integration component interacts with an application through an application programming interface in order for the virtualization platform to monitor the health and performance of the application. In another embodiment, the guest integration component may include a monitoring agent that accesses an event log and/or a performance monitor log to access the health and performance of the application. The health and performance of the application may then be analyzed by the virtualization platform to determine an appropriate remedial action.

Health monitoring of applications in a guest partition

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