HA Automatic VM Migration During Host Shutdown

[33_viper_33]

Good day all,

I'm moving off of vmWare to Proxmox and I'm a bit confused of the HA features. In vmWare, if I were to shut down or put a host in a cluster into maintenance mode, the VMs would automatically move to a different host before the host shutdown or went into maintenance mode. I can't seem to figure out how to make Proxmox replicate this behavior.

I do have HA working. If I were to shut down host1, the VMs shut down followed by host1. Then a few minutes later, host2 starts the VM. So HA is working, but there is still down time. I would think that part of the shutdown process is to migrate all HA VMs first before the shutdown.

What am I missing? Is there a setting or file I have to edit? Perhaps a script that can be attached to the shutdown command?

 

[spirit]

you can configure the HA shutdown policy in datacenter. (choose "migrate" policy)

 

[Noah0302]

you can configure the HA shutdown policy in datacenter. (choose "migrate" policy)

Can confirm this works, thank you.

It also re-migrates the VMs to the rebooted Node!

 

[Alwicom]

HI, is right that "migrate" policy work only for active service (VM that are powerd on), but it dosn't migrate VM that are turned off ?
or there is some config for this?
I tested this with maintenance mode.