I have three Proxmox servers and I am trying to have them all set in a cluster. They all run PM 1.8 and I have two of them successfully linked together. The third one was installed and setup with about 4 VMs last year, and they unfortunately share common VMIDs with the master. I understand that if I add the third PM 1.8 box to the cluster, I will lose the VMs.
However in reading about this, I believe I can backup the VMs and then restore them under non-conflicting VMIDs to get this working. That will work fine for 3 of the 4 VMs on that server, but the first one is an IPCop Firewall (KVM) that we have working there and as that box is colocated in another state, I can't afford to lose connectivity to it.
So I'm wondering if there is any other way to change the VMID of a running VM on a PM1.8 server, so that I can add it to the cluster? I may be able to stop it for a short period of time, but I'm not sure if I will have the option to do a full backup of the VM.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks
Myles
However in reading about this, I believe I can backup the VMs and then restore them under non-conflicting VMIDs to get this working. That will work fine for 3 of the 4 VMs on that server, but the first one is an IPCop Firewall (KVM) that we have working there and as that box is colocated in another state, I can't afford to lose connectivity to it.
So I'm wondering if there is any other way to change the VMID of a running VM on a PM1.8 server, so that I can add it to the cluster? I may be able to stop it for a short period of time, but I'm not sure if I will have the option to do a full backup of the VM.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks
Myles