Re: [PATCH-SERIES ha-manager/manager 0/3] fix #7557: introduce 'auto-rebalance' property

["Dominik Rusovac" <d.rusovac@proxmox.com>]

thx for testing the series

On Tue May 12, 2026 at 11:21 AM CEST, Daniel Kral wrote:
> On Mon May 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM CEST, Dominik Rusovac wrote:
>> # TL;DR 
>> Add 'auto-rebalance' property to HA resources config, which gives users
>> control over which HA resources may be moved by dynamic CRS during
>> automatic rebalancing.
>>
>> # Details
>> The 'auto-rebalance' flag is set to true by default. As requested by [0],
>> disabling 'auto-rebalance' for some HA resource, say vm:100, means that vm:100
>> will be disregarded as a migration candidate during auto-rebalancing. Any HA
>> resource with a positive affinity for vm:100 will be disregarded too.
>>
>> # Summary of Changes
>> This series:
>> - introduces property to control whether an HA resource may be migrated during
>>   automatic rebalancing;
>> - adds corresponding flag to PVE UI.
>>
>> # Refs
>> [0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7557
>
> Tested the series and it works just as expected:
>
> - only a single HA resource with auto-rebalance cleared; set
>   imbalance-threshold to 0.1 and imbalance-margin to 0.05, put no load
>   on node3, some load on node2 and a lot of load with a non-HA VM and
>   the HA resource from above, but it was never moved to the other nodes;
>   it was moved to node3 as soon as I set auto-rebalance again
>
> - tested the same with a positive resource affinity rule with that HA
>   resource and another new HA resource and they never moved away unless
>   I set the auto-rebalance option for all again
>
> Nice work, thanks for the quick patch series!
>
> Would be great to document this in the documentation as well so users
> are aware especially that if such HA resources are in a resource
> affinity rule, that they make the whole resource bundle immovable. But
> this can also be done as a follow-up.

I will take care of the docs in a follow-up

>
> Consider this as:
>
> Tested-by: Daniel Kral <d.kral@proxmox.com>