Hyper-V native import / export & Live Migration
Microsoft
Included
Live - no guest downtime
Agentless
Large estates
Workload V2V
What it is good at
Shared-nothing Live Migration moves running VMs between standalone hosts with zero downtime and no extra product.
Where it falls down
Hyper-V family only. Cross-version moves are forward-only - you cannot import a VM into an older Hyper-V build.
Capabilities
- Live migration (no guest downtime)
- Agentless operation
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Included — No extra charge if you already hold the platform licence.
- Indicative price
- Included with Windows Server / Azure Local
- Licence model
- Part of the Windows Server (Standard or Datacenter) or Azure Local licence you already own.
- How to license it
- No extra licence. Note Azure Local bills per physical core per month through an Azure subscription; Windows Server is per-core with CALs.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Hyper-V managed by System Center VMM
- Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI
Supported targets
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Hyper-V managed by System Center VMM
- Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI