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Chapter 6: Virtual Machine Migration > Exporting and Importing in Hyper-V
Exporting and Importing in Hyper-V
V2V migrations between different virtualization platforms require steps similar to those in the P2V examples shown earlier. However, you can move VMs between Hyper-V hosts without all these steps by leveraging the built-in export and import functionality. You can export to local disk, or over the network.
NOTE Export and import aren’t truly V2V processes, but they allow you to move VMs from one Hyper-V host to another, and they fit well into a chapter focused on migration.
You can also use failover cluster to migrate a VM from one host to another. This requires you to configure clustering on similar hosts.
SCVMM has the capability to move VMs from one host to another without export and import. (SCVMM is covered in Chapter 11.)
