Migrating Virtual Machines and Containers Between Parallels Servers

In Parallels Server Bare Metal, you can choose one of the following ways to migrate a virtual machine and Container:

• Migrating a virtual machine and Container using the standard migration technology. In this case there is a short downtime needed to stop and start the virtual machine and Container during its migration from the source server to the destination server.
• Migrating a virtual machine and Container using the zero downtime migration technology. In this case the stop and start operations are not performed and the migrated virtual machine and Container is restored on the destination server in the same state as it was at the beginning of the migration. This greatly reduces the migration time and puts it on the same footing as the delay caused by a short interruption in the network connectivity.

  Note : In this version of Parallels Server Bare Metal, the zero-downtime migration is supported for Containers only.

Both ways are described in the following subsections in detail.