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.

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 on the VirtualMachines page or on the VirtualMachine details page of the migrating virtual machine.

Procedure

  1. In the OKD console, click Virtualization → VirtualMachines from the side menu.

  2. Select a virtual machine to open the VirtualMachine details page.

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 describe command on the migrating virtual machine instance:

    1. $ oc describe vmi vmi-fedora

    Example output

    1. ...
    2. Status:
    3.   Conditions:
    4.     Last Probe Time:       <nil>
    5.     Last Transition Time:  <nil>
    6.     Status:                True
    7.     Type:                  LiveMigratable
    8.   Migration Method:  LiveMigration
    9.   Migration State:
    10.     Completed:                    true
    11.     End Timestamp:                2018-12-24T06:19:42Z
    12.     Migration UID:                d78c8962-0743-11e9-a540-fa163e0c69f1
    13.     Source Node:                  node2.example.com
    14.     Start Timestamp:              2018-12-24T06:19:35Z
    15.     Target Node:                  node1.example.com
    16.     Target Node Address:          10.9.0.18:43891
    17.     Target Node Domain Detected:  true