Live Migrate VM Between Proxmox Nodes (Step-by-Step)
Proxmox live migration moves a running VM between cluster nodes with no downtime.
Step 1: Verify Cluster Nodes Online
Datacenter → Cluster. Confirm all nodes show online status.
Cluster nodes online
Step 2: Open Migrate Dialog
Right-click running VM → Migrate. Select target node and enable online migration.
VM migrate dialog
Step 3: Confirm Shared Storage
VM disks must be on storage visible to both nodes (NFS, Ceph, iSCSI).
Shared storage for migration
qm migrate 101 pve2 --online
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