vzmigrate(8) Virtual Private Servers vzmigrate(8)

vzmigrate - utility for virtual environment migration between hardware nodes.

vzmigrate [-r|--remove-area yes|no] [--ssh=ssh_options] [--keep-dst] [--online] [-v] destination_address VPSID

This utility is used to migrate a VPS from one (source) Hardware Node (HN) to another (destination) HN. The utility can migrate either stopped or running VPS. For stopped VPS, simple VPS private area transfer is performed (rsync(1) is used for file transfer). For running VPSs migration may be offline (default) or online.

This program uses ssh as a transport layer. You will need to put ssh public key to destination node and be able to connect to node without entering password.

-r, --remove-area yes|no
Whether to remove VPS on source HN for successfully migrated VPS.

--ssh=options
Additional options that will be passed to ssh while establishing connection to destination HN. You may add options like -c blowfishR or the like.

--keep-dst
Do not clean synced destination VPS private area in case of some error. It makes sense to use this option on big VPS migration to avoid syncing VPS private area again in case some error (on VPS stop for example) occurs during first migration attempt.

--online
Perform online (zero-downtime) migration: during the migration the VPS hangs for a while and after the migration it continues working as though nothing has happened.

-v
Verbose mode. Causes vzmigrate to print debugging messages about its progress.

Migration of VPS#101 to 192.168.1.130 with downtime:
vzmigrate 192.168.1.130 101

Online migration of VPS#102 to 192.168.1.130:
vzmigrate --online 192.168.1.130 102

0 EXIT_OK
Command completed successfully.
1 EXIT_USAGE
Bad command line options.
2 EXIT_VPS_STOPPED
VPS is stopped.
4 EXIT_CONNECT
Can't connect to destination (source) HN.
6 EXIT_COPY
VPS private area copying/moving failed.
7 EXIT_VPS_START
Can't start or restore destination VPS.
8 EXIT_VPS_STOP
Can't stop or checkpoint source VPS.
9 EXIT_EXISTS
VPS already exists on destination HN.
10 EXIT_NOTEXIST
VPS does not exists on source HN.
12 EXIT_IP_INUSE
You attempt to migrate VPS which IP address(es) are already in use on the destination node.
13 EXIT_QUOTA
Operation with VPS quota failed.

rsync(1)

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17 April 2006 OpenVZ