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#
Hypervisor Platform |
Documentation |
|---|---|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM |
Known Issues and Limitations with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute Migration on RHEL KVM |
Ubuntu with KVM |
Known Issues and Limitations with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute Migration on Ubuntu KVM |
VMware vSphere |
Known Issues and Limitations with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute Migration on VMware vSphere |
Platform Support for Live Migration#
Hypervisor Platform |
Version |
NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Release |
Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM |
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|
Migrating a VM Configured with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute on RHEL KVM |
Ubuntu with KVM |
24.04 LTS |
|
Migrating a VM Configured with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute on Linux KVM |
VMware vSphere |
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All active NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra Releases |
Migrating a VM Configured with NVIDIA vGPU for Compute on VMware vSphere |
Note
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.
Note
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