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Live Migration#

Live migration moves VMs that use NVIDIA vGPUs from one physical host to another without guest downtime. Typical uses include host maintenance, load balancing, and moving GPU-backed VMs between hosts.

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:

  • 10.0

  • 9.6

  • 9.4

NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Releases:

  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra 8.x

  • 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 Releases:

  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra 8.x

  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra 7.x

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

Versions:

  • 9

  • 8

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 80 GB PCIe and 94 GB NVL variants of GPU Boards

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