How to Seamlessly Hot-Migrate VM Disks to a Mixed-Flash Ceph Cluster with QMP
This article details the design, implementation, and results of migrating over 16,000 virtual machine disks from an aging Ceph Luminous cluster to a high‑performance mixed‑flash Ceph cluster using QEMU QMP hot‑swap, achieving a 47.65% reduction in IO latency and enabling cost‑saving decommissioning of legacy storage.
