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Microsoft Hyper-V yper0provides native tools to migrate VMs. Use of native Hyper-V tools is preferred. Most commonly, VMs are moved within a cluster by using Live Migration.
Moving a VM by remapping its underlying ME5 volumes to a different host or cluster may be a better choice in some situations. For example, using Hyper-V tools to move or migrate a large VM over the network may require considerable time and may not be practical. A storage-based method (remapping a volume) will involve down time, but will be quicker than waiting for a long network copy process to finish. Remapping volumes to move VMs will not consume network bandwidth.