[PVE-User] Move VMs / local storage to new host with minimal downtime

[Yann Fahrni]

So I need to create the VM on the new host and then attach the moved disk – is there any doc about ? I guess I also should copy the configuration file.

Thanks again.

> On 13 Feb 2017, at 17:07, Kevin Lemonnier <lemonnierk at ulrar.net> wrote:
> 
>> We are thinking about moving some local shared storage VMs to a new host with minimal downtime, do you have any idea on how to do this ?
> 
> Just add the new host's storage on the old proxmox through some network filesystem (NFS might be the easiest, some people talked about sshfs)
> and then just use the "move disk" function from proxmox.
> No downtime, although sometimes for some reason I can't identify the VM will reboot when the disk moving hits 100%. Still, almost no downtime.
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