9.3. Migrating a virtual machine instance to another node

Procedure

1. In the OpenShift Virtualization console, click Workloads Virtualization from the side menu.
2. Click the Virtual Machines tab.

3. You can initiate the migration from this screen, which makes it easier to perform actions on multiple virtual machines in the one screen, or from the Virtual Machine Overview screen where you can view comprehensive details of the selected virtual machine:

   • Click the Options menu at the end of virtual machine and select Migrate Virtual Machine.
   • Click the virtual machine name to open the Virtual Machine Overview screen and click Actions Migrate Virtual Machine.
4. Click Migrate to migrate the virtual machine to another node.

Procedure

1. Create a VirtualMachineInstanceMigration configuration file for the virtual machine instance to migrate. For example, vmi-migrate.yaml:

   apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1alpha3
   kind: VirtualMachineInstanceMigration
   metadata:
     name: migration-job
   spec:
     vmiName: vmi-fedora

2. Create the object in the cluster by running the following command:

   $ oc create -f vmi-migrate.yaml