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Migrating Virtual Machines

The Parallels physical server is the system with higher availability requirements in comparison with a typical system. If you are running your company mail server, file server, and web server in different virtual machines on one and the same physical server, then shutting it down for hardware upgrade will make all these services unavailable at once. To facilitate hardware upgrades and load balancing between several Parallels servers, the Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition software provides you with the ability to migrate virtual machines from one physical server to another.

Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition is shipped with a special utility - pmigrate - allowing you to perform different types of migration. Using this utility, you can migrate

  • virtual machines from one physical server to another
  • a physical server to a virtual machine

All these operations are described in the following subsections.

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General Migration Requirements

Migrating Virtual Machines Between Parallels Servers

Migrating a Physical Computer to a Virtual Machine