[SOLVED] Migrating a VM without moving the disk on NFS storage

[Jason2312312]

Hi there,

I have a VM with local storage (SSD) for the OS and NFS storage for storing remote backups, when I want to migrate this VM I don't seem to have an option to specifiy that the NFS disk should remain in place and only the local disk should be moved to the new host. How does Proxmox handle this?





What does "current layout" mean for the new location? Is there a way to specify a location for each disk of the VM?

 

[bbgeek17]

I don't seem to have an option to specifiy that the NFS disk should remain in place and only the local disk should be moved to the new host.

You dont need an option for NFS, because, presumably NFS is a shared storage and both Nodes can see it. In that case the data on NFS stays where it is and the VM running on new node just knows that the data is there.

What does "current layout" mean for the new location?

It means move the Disk to the storage pool with the same label as one on source node, ie local-lvm>local-lvm.

Is there a way to specify a location for each disk of the VM?

I believe there is no such functionality today for VM migration

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[Jason2312312]

Thanks for the clear answer, this helps!