explain the offline and restart migration Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csa...@proxmox.com> --- pct.adoc | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pct.adoc b/pct.adoc index 171a4a5..4ca8d7e 100644 --- a/pct.adoc +++ b/pct.adoc @@ -692,6 +692,26 @@ NOTE: If you have changed the container's configuration since the last start attempt with `pct start`, you need to run `pct start` at least once to also update the configuration used by `lxc-start`. +[[pct_migration]] +Migration +--------- + +If you have a cluster, you can migrate your Containers with + + pct migrate <vmid> <target> + +This works as long as your Container is offline. If it has local volumes or +mountpoints defined, the migration will copy the content over the network to +the target host if there is the same storage defined. + +If you want to migrate online Containers, the only way is to use +restart migration. This can be initiated with the -restart flag and the optional +-timeout parameter. + +A restart migration will shut down the Container and kill it after the specified +timeout (the default is 180 seconds). Then it will migrate the Container +like an offline migration and when finished, it starts the Container on the +target node. [[pct_configuration]] Configuration -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
