User`s guide

Operations on Virtual Machines and Containers 49
Migrating Virtual Machines and
Containers
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 and Containers 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
Bare Metal software provides you with the ability to migrate virtual machines and Containers
from one physical server to another.
Parallels Server Bare Metal is shipped with a special utility - pmigrate - allowing you to
perform different types of migration. Using this utility, you can migrate
 Containers from one physical server to another
 virtual machines from one physical server to another
 a Container to a virtual machine
 a virtual machine to a Container
 a physical server to a virtual machine and Container
All these operations are described in the following subsections.