Virtual Machine Migration System

An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:

• a processing system;
• and
• a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide a hypervisor engine that is configured to:
• operate a first virtual machine on the processing system;
• receive a live virtual machine migration instruction to migrate the first virtual machine to a target host computing device;
• move, while the first virtual machine is operating on the processing system, first virtual machine data for the first virtual machine from a first local memory area in the memory system to a first memory fabric memory area in a memory fabric memory system, wherein a first portion of the first virtual machine data in the first local memory area in the memory system and a second portion of the first virtual machine data in the first memory fabric memory area in the memory fabric memory system are accessible to the first virtual machine and the processing system during the movement of the first virtual machine data;
• and
• stop, in response to all of the first virtual machine data being moved to the first memory fabric memory area in the memory fabric memory system, operation of the first virtual machine on the processing system.

A method for virtual machine migration, comprising:

• receiving, by an initiator host computing device, a live virtual machine migration instruction to migrate a first virtual machine operating on the initiator host computing device to a target host computing device;
• moving, by the initiator host computing device while the first virtual machine is operating on the initiator host computing device, first virtual machine data for the first virtual machine from a first local memory area in a local memory system that is included in the initiator host computing device to a memory fabric memory area in a memory fabric memory system, wherein a first portion of the first virtual machine data in the first local memory area in the local memory system and a second portion of the first virtual machine data in the memory fabric memory area in the memory fabric memory system are accessible to the first virtual machine and the initiator host computing device during the movement of the first virtual machine data;
• and
• stopping, by the initiator host computing device and in response to all of the first virtual machine data being moved to the memory fabric memory area in the memory fabric memory system, operation of the first virtual machine on the initiator host computing device.