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by Aeolun 1943 days ago
> live migration of compute between hosts

When would you ever want to rely on this? Seems to me like you should have two hosts in the first place.

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Google has been relying on it for years. It's completely seamless and means you get even better reliability by insulating from the underlying hardware issues.
When you don't want to lose the requests already in progress, and to avoid the failover window