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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, migrate does "dead" migration on a server.  Essentially snapshots the drive transfers it to a new server and reboots.  Migrate and live-migration do need to be consolidated.

Vish

On Jun 5, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Florian Haas wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> do I understand correctly that "nova migrate" is intended to upgrade
> an instance's configuration from one Nova version to the next? I can't
> seem to find it documented anywhere, and would be happy to provide a
> doc patch if my hunch is correct.
> 
> Also if my assumption is correct, would people agree that this is a
> partial naming clash with "nova live-migration" which does something
> completely different (which might confuse users)? And would "nova
> upgrade" then perhaps be a better term for what "nova migrate" does
> now?
> 
> Cheers,
> Florian
> 
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