Live Migration without shared storage

[Alessandro 123]

Hi to all,
is possible, with proxmox, doing a live migration without any shared storage, like Xen does with XenMotion ?

 

[CBdVSdFSMB]

No, it isn't - since the old days ;-)

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_-_Restore_-_Live_Migration#Live_Migration

Cheers,
Johannes

 

[micush]

You can power off a VM on local storage and migrate it to another local storage host without issue. Why can't an online migration with local storage be done when an offline one can?

 

[bartl]

offline is just rsync like transfer. Online is something else. Possible to install a temp low-budget NFS device?
You can move storage (online) to NFS, move the server and move NFS back to local.

All online!

 

[CBdVSdFSMB]

Or just use DRBD as soon as we're out of Tech-preview stage.

 

[spirit]

Technically, it could be implemented (live migration + storage migration), but it's not implemented yet.

 

[micush]

+1 to implement please

 

[Ovidiu]

So the current situation is to follow the wiki for Proxmox 1? => https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_-_Restore_-_Live_Migration or is there any newer documentation available?

In my case I don't care about online/offline migration I just need to get about 5 LXCs and 1 KVM from the Proxmox server its currently running onto a new one then transfer the IP range those VMs are using as well and bring the machines back up.

No problem shutting them all down and using rsync for transfer but those instructions don't say anything about LXC migration.

Also, is the restore done solely on the command line, no GUI for importing those backups?

 

[dcsapak]

for more current backup and restore documentation see
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

 

[Ovidiu]

for more current backup and restore documentation see
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

Thanks, I must have somehow missed that as it answers all my questions.