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CLUSCTL_RESOURCE_VM_START_MIGRATION control code

Initiates the live migration of a virtual machine (VM) from one node of a cluster to another node of the cluster. The VM must be in the Online (Enabled) state (VmState property is 2) to start a live migration and the resource control must be called on the node that currently hosts the VM. Applications use this control code as a parameter to the ClusterResourceControl function, and resource DLLs receive the control code as a parameter to the ResourceControl callback function.

ClusterResourceControl( hResource,       // resource handle
                        hHostNode,       // optional node handle
                        CLUSCTL_RESOURCE_VM_START_MIGRATION, 
                        lpInBuffer,      // input buffer: Name of destination node
                        cbInBufferSize,  // input buffer size (bytes)
                        NULL,            // output buffer (not used)
                        0,               // output buffer size (not used)
                        NULL );          // returned data size (not used)

Parameters

The following control code function parameters are specific to this control code. For complete parameter descriptions, see ClusterResourceControl.

lpInBuffer [in, optional]

A pointer to an input buffer containing a null-terminated Unicode string containing the name of the destination node for the live migration.

cbInBufferSize [in]

The allocated size (in bytes) of the input buffer.

Return value

ClusterResourceControl returns one of the following values.

ERROR_SUCCESS

0

The migration was successfully started.

ERROR_INVALID_STATE

5023 (0x139F)

The VM is not in the Online (2) state on the source node.

System error code

The migration failed to start.

Remarks

The 32 bits of CLUSCTL_RESOURCE_VM_START_MIGRATION (0x01600004) are defined as follows.

Component Bit location Value
Object code
24 31
CLUS_OBJECT_RESOURCE (0x1)
Global bit
23
CLUS_NOT_GLOBAL (0x0)
Modify bit
22
CLUS_MODIFY (0x1)
User bit
21
CLCTL_USER_BASE (0x200000)
Type bit
20
External (0x0)
Operation code
0 23
(0x4)
Access code
0 1
CLUS_ACCESS_ANY (0x0)

For more information, see Control Code Architecture.

Requirements

Minimum supported client
None supported
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

See also

External Resource Control Codes

ClusterResourceControl

ResourceControl

VmState