9.4. Monitoring live migration of a virtual machine instance
You can monitor the progress of a live migration of a virtual machine instance from either the web console or the CLI.
9.4.1. Monitoring live migration of a virtual machine instance in the web console
For the duration of the migration, the virtual machine has a status of Migrating. This status is displayed in the Virtual Machines tab or in the Virtual Machine Overview screen for the migrating virtual machine.
Procedure
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In the OpenShift Virtualization console, click Workloads
Virtualization from the side menu. - Click the Virtual Machines tab.
- Select a virtual machine to open the Virtual Machine Overview screen.
9.4.2. Monitoring live migration of a virtual machine instance in the CLI
The status of the virtual machine migration is stored in the Status component of the VirtualMachineInstance configuration.
Procedure
Use the
oc describecommand on the migrating virtual machine instance:$ oc describe vmi vmi-fedora
Example output
... Status: Conditions: Last Probe Time: <nil> Last Transition Time: <nil> Status: True Type: LiveMigratable Migration Method: LiveMigration Migration State: Completed: true End Timestamp: 2018-12-24T06:19:42Z Migration UID: d78c8962-0743-11e9-a540-fa163e0c69f1 Source Node: node2.example.com Start Timestamp: 2018-12-24T06:19:35Z Target Node: node1.example.com Target Node Address: 10.9.0.18:43891 Target Node Domain Detected: true
