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Live migration limits and timeouts are applied so that migration processes do not overwhelm the cluster. Configure these settings by editing the kubevirt-config configuration file.

Configuring live migration limits and timeouts

Configure live migration limits and timeouts for the cluster by adding updated key:value fields to the kubevirt-config configuration file, which is located in the openshift-cnv namespace.

Procedure
  • Edit the kubevirt-config configuration file and add the necessary live migration parameters. The following example shows the default values:

    $ oc edit configmap kubevirt-config -n openshift-cnv
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      name: kubevirt-config
      namespace: kubevirt
      labels:
        kubevirt.io: ""
    data:
      feature-gates: "LiveMigration"
      migrations: |-
        parallelMigrationsPerCluster: 5
        parallelOutboundMigrationsPerNode: 2
        bandwidthPerMigration: 64Mi
        completionTimeoutPerGiB: 800
        progressTimeout: 150

Cluster-wide live migration limits and timeouts

Table 1. Migration parameters
Parameter Description Default

parallelMigrationsPerCluster

Number of migrations running in parallel in the cluster.

5

parallelOutboundMigrationsPerNode

Maximum number of outbound migrations per node.

2

bandwidthPerMigration

Bandwidth limit of each migration, in MiB/s.

64Mi

completionTimeoutPerGiB

The migration will be canceled if it has not completed in this time, in seconds per GiB of memory. For example, a virtual machine instance with 6GiB memory will timeout if it has not completed migration in 4800 seconds. If the Migration Method is BlockMigration, the size of the migrating disks is included in the calculation.

800

progressTimeout

The migration will be canceled if memory copy fails to make progress in this time, in seconds.

150