When a virtual guest consumes too many system resources, or you wish to rebuild or perform other more drastic maintenance on the virtual guest's current virtual host's use, migrate the guest to a different host.
Before moving a virtual guest, make sure the following is true:
- You are a TeamForge Lab Management domain administrator.
- The current virtual host and guest, and the desired new virtual host, are all in the same project.
- The target virtual host has enough RAM, disk, and CPU to accommodate the virtual guest you wish to migrate to it. (TeamForge Lab Management displays a drop-down list of hosts that fulfill all these criteria.)
- The virtual guest being moved and the target virtual host are on the same subnet.
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Go to the Host|Admin page for the virtual guest that you wish to migrate.
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In the Move to Virtual Host drop-down box, select the host you wish to migrate this virtual guest to, and click Update Allocation Details.
Note: If you do not see this drop-down box, but instead see the text "No hosts are eligible for re-parenting," there are no other virtual hosts in this project that could accommodate this virtual guest. You must delete or reduce the hardware resources assigned to one or more existing guests.
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Click Confirm Update.
The virtual guest immediately shuts down and begins migrating. The owner of the virtual guest (not necessarily the user that requested the migration) receives an e-mail when the migration is complete.
Note: There is no exact time frame or estimate for how long a guest migration takes. A typical "base" system without much data (e.g., under 10GB) usually migrates in 5-15 minutes. The time required is mostly dependent on the size of the virtual machine, coupled with the load on the source and destination virtual hosts.