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Live Migration#

Live migration enables the transfer of VMs configured with NVIDIA vGPUs from one physical host to another without downtime. This capability enables enterprises to maintain continuous operations during infrastructure changes, balancing workloads, or reallocating resources with minimal disruption. Live migration offers operational benefits, including enhanced business continuity, scalability, and agility.

For additional information about this feature and instructions on how to perform the operation across different hypervisors, refer to the vGPU Live Migration documentation.

Live Migration Known Issues and Limitations#

Refer to Known Issues and Limitations with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute Migration on RHEL KVM.

Refer to Known Issues and Limitations with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute Migration on Ubuntu KVM.

Refer to Known Issues and Limitations with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute Migration on VMware vSphere.

Platform Support for Live Migration#

Versions:

  • 9.4

  • 9.6

  • 10.0

NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Release: NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra 7.x

Refer to Migrating a VM Configured with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute on RHEL KVM.

Version: 24.04 LTS

NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Release: NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra 7.x

Refer to Migrating a VM Configured with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute on Linux KVM.

Versions:

  • 8

  • 9

NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Release: All active NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Releases

Refer to Migrating a VM Configured with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute on VMware vSphere.

Warning

Live Migration is not supported between RHEL 10 and RHEL 9.4.

vGPU Support for Live Migration#

For a list of supported GPUs, refer to the Supported NVIDIA GPUs and Networking section in the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Support Matrix.

Warning

  • Live Migration is not supported between 80GB PCIe and 94GB NVL variants of GPU Boards

  • Live Migration is not supported between H200 / H800 / H100 GPU Boards