Live Migration
Live migration means moving a virtual machine to a different host without downtime.
Notes:
- Live migration is not allowed when the virtual machine is using a management network of bridge interface type.
- To support live migration, 3 or more hosts in the Harvester cluster are required due to a known issue.
Starting a migration
- Go to the Virtual Machines page.
- Find the virtual machine that you want to migrate and select Vertical ⋮ (... ) > Migrate.
- Choose the node that you want to migrate the virtual machine to. Click Apply.
Aborting a migration
- Go to the Virtual Machines page.
- Find the virtual machine that is in migrating status and you want to abort the migration. Select Vertical ⋮ (... ) > Abort Migration.
Migration timeouts
Completion timeout
The live migration process will copy virtual machine memory pages and disk blocks to the destination. In some cases, the virtual machine can write to different memory pages/disk blocks at a higher rate than these can be copied, which will prevent the migration process from being completed in a reasonable amount of time. Live migration will be aborted if it exceeds the completion timeout which is 800s per GiB of data. For example, a virtual machine with 8 GiB of memory will time out after 6400 seconds.
Progress timeout
Live migration will also be aborted when it is noticed that copying memory doesn't make any progress in 150s.