Viewing activities

On the Monitoring > Activities screen, you can view and manage activities related to VM migrations, including manually initiated migrations and migrations triggered by resource policies.

Limitations

You can retry a migration only if its status is "Failed" and it is still eligible.

Prerequisites

VM migrations have been initiated either either manually, as described in Migrating virtual machines, or automatically by resource policies, as described in Using resource policies.

To view an activity

Admin panel

Go to the Monitoring > Activities screen to view the list of VM migration activities.
Locate and click the required VM migration activity.
On the activity right pane, review the activity information:
- The Tasks tab shows the history of associated activity tasks.
- The Details tab displays the activity type, status, initiator, object name, start and completion time.

Command-line interface

Use the following command:

vinfra service compute server migration show <migration_uuid>

<migration_uuid>: Migration UUID

For example, to view the details of the last VM migration activity, run:

# vinfra service compute server migration list
+----------------+--------------+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+
| migration_uuid | server_id    | server_name | status  | type           | source_node | dest_node | start_time          | finish_time         |
+----------------+--------------+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+
| b8e57a7e<...> | 1af6d1dc<...> | vm4         | success | live-migration | node001     | node002   | 2026-02-25T20:33:41 | 2026-02-25T20:33:59 |
| 0efa0953<...> | f30fae5d<...> | vm1         | failed  | live-migration | node005     | node003   | 2026-02-25T20:30:20 | 2026-02-25T20:30:37 |
+---------------+---------------+-------------+---------+----------------+-------------+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+
# vinfra service compute server migration show b8e57a7e-8e08-4b09-b160-87346f9554aa
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Field          | Value                                                              |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| dest_compute   | node002.vstoragedomain                                             |
| dest_host      |                                                                    |
| dest_node      | node002.vstoragedomain                                             |
| domain_id      | default                                                            |
| fault          |                                                                    |
| finish_time    | 2026-02-25T20:33:59.694354                                         |
| history        | - details: Performing post live migration operations.              |
|                |   event: compute_post_live_migration_at_destination                |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:58.228835'                        |
|                |   host: node002.vstoragedomain                                     |
|                |   hostId: 288e46deb22981c69421b20eab0315873f602bbd7b96ed5dd498cdff |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:56.871407'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
|                | - details: Live migrating instance.                                |
|                |   event: driver__live_migration_operation                          |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:55.726310'                        |
|                |   host: null                                                       |
|                |   hostId: ''                                                       |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:51.283914'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
|                | - details: Preparing for live migration on destination node.       |
|                |   event: compute_pre_live_migration                                |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:51.122364'                        |
|                |   host: node002.vstoragedomain                                     |
|                |   hostId: 288e46deb22981c69421b20eab0315873f602bbd7b96ed5dd498cdff |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:44.400671'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
|                | - details: Preparing for live migration on source node.            |
|                |   event: compute_live_migration                                    |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:44.290530'                        |
|                |   host: node001.vstoragedomain                                     |
|                |   hostId: 5af5c1ec1278dd2d2ed52c4ad197e5ba2e5b5cc36dadedff5ee416dd |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:44.234010'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
|                | - details: Checking if migration from source node is possible.     |
|                |   event: compute_check_can_live_migrate_source                     |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:43.836884'                        |
|                |   host: node001.vstoragedomain                                     |
|                |   hostId: 5af5c1ec1278dd2d2ed52c4ad197e5ba2e5b5cc36dadedff5ee416dd |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:43.671252'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
|                | - details: Checking if migration to destination node is possible.  |
|                |   event: compute_check_can_live_migrate_destination                |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:43.901423'                        |
|                |   host: node002.vstoragedomain                                     |
|                |   hostId: 288e46deb22981c69421b20eab0315873f602bbd7b96ed5dd498cdff |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:42.942913'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
|                | - details: Received request to live migrate instance.              |
|                |   event: conductor_live_migrate_instance                           |
|                |   finish_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:44.221049'                        |
|                |   host: node002.vstoragedomain                                     |
|                |   hostId: 288e46deb22981c69421b20eab0315873f602bbd7b96ed5dd498cdff |
|                |   result: Success                                                  |
|                |   start_time: '2026-02-25T20:33:41.090806'                         |
|                |   traceback: null                                                  |
| migration_uuid | b8e57a7e-8e08-4b09-b160-87346f9554aa                               |
| progress       | 100                                                                |
| project_id     | 83b0ed344abc4af88cc3c24fb98d948f                                   |
| request_id     | req-1b9087a6-ea9a-4fac-9944-eddd6883155a                           |
| server_id      | 1af6d1dc-1672-4f3b-b6a6-394765b91908                               |
| server_name    | vm4                                                                |
| source_compute | node001.vstoragedomain                                             |
| source_node    | node002.vstoragedomain                                             |
| start_time     | 2026-02-25T20:33:41.138167                                         |
| status         | success                                                            |
| type           | live-migration                                                     |
| user_id        | ec658b4a9d644e59a8ed4b2b5dce72d3                                   |
| username       | admin                                                              |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

To cancel an ongoing activity

Admin panel

On the Monitoring > Activities screen, click the required ongoing VM migration activity.
On the activity right pane, click Cancel.

Command-line interface

Use the following command:

vinfra service compute server migration abort <server>

<server>: Virtual machine ID or name

For example, to abort a queued or ongoing migration for the VM vm1, run:

# vinfra service compute server migration abort vm1

To retry a failed activity

Admin panel

On the Monitoring > Activities screen, click the required failed VM migration activity.
On the activity right pane, click Retry.

Command-line interface

Use the following command:

vinfra service compute server migration retry <server> <migration_uuid>

<server>: Virtual machine ID or name
<migration_uuid>: Migration UUID

For example, to retry a migration with the ID 0efa0953-2b90-4bec-8dc1-f0bc294f4cbc for the VM vm1, run:

# vinfra service compute server migration retry vm1 0efa0953-2b90-4bec-8dc1-f0bc294f4cbc