Live migration from the dashboard

Registered by Philippe CH

This blueprint has been superseded. See the newer blueprint "Support for Live Migration" for updated plans.

It would be very useful if the administrator can have the possibility to migrate one or more running instance to a selected host according to its charge.

Example : VMWare vMotion
It's already working with the command 'nova live-migration <instance-name-or-id> <nova-compute-host>'

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
Gabriel Hurley

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This is a duplicate of https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/migrate-instance

[2014-02-24 Dmitry Borodaenko]
This is not a duplicate: the migrate-instance blueprint implements non-live migrations (nova migrate), this blueprint is about live migrations (nova live-migration). Lack of support of live migrations and lack of distinction between different migration types is a serious limitation of Horizon: at best, it forces a user who is aware of the distinction to use CLI instead of the dashboard; at worst, it tricks an unsuspecting user into triggerring a disruptive non-live migration without telling them that for a non-disruptive live migration they should look elsewhere.

[2014-02-26 Dmitry Borodaenko]
In fact it is a duplicate, but of a different, more recent, blueprint:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/live-migration-support

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