Decentralized Live Migration Overview

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KubeVirt 1.6 adds Decentralized live migration that lets a running VM move across namespaces or clusters by creating a source migration and a receiver VMI synchronized over a synchronization controller via the migration network. Receiver VMIs use a wait-as-receiver runStrategy and a restoreRunStrategy annotation; source and target match with a migration ID and connection URL. Demo shows a cross-cluster migration of a timestamp-writing process with no downtime, using existing compute/storage live-migration mechanics plus state sync.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:45Live migration background
3. 2:47Centralized migration process
4. 4:40Need for decentralized approach
5. 5:28Decentralized migration design
6. 6:40Synchronization controller role
7. 8:08Configuring receiver VMs
8. 10:26Migration resource setup
9. 12:04Migration demo
10. 17:14Orchestration and conclusion

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