{"url":"https://nexovirt.com/features/balancing","title":"Proxmox load balancing and automatic placement · NexoVirt","description":"New guests land on the Proxmox node with the most room, and a balance page suggests migrations when a node runs hot. You decide what moves.","markdown_url":"https://nexovirt.com/features/balancing.md","sections":[{"heading":"Automatic placement and load balancing for Proxmox","content":"NexoVirt places new guests on the node with the most free memory, CPU and storage, and explains its choice. When a node runs hot, the Balance page spreads the load and suggests which guests to move where, and you start the moves you agree with.\n\n[Install free](https://docs.nexovirt.com/getting-started/installation/) [Read the Placement & balancing guide](https://docs.nexovirt.com/guides/migration/)\n\n![Placement & balancing in the NexoVirt panel](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/balance-light.webp?v=1792068738)"},{"heading":"What it does","content":"New guests land where there is room; hot nodes get migration suggestions.\n\n- ### Automatic placement\n\nChoose Automatic when you create a guest and the panel picks the node with the most room, with a short explanation.\n- ### Only nodes that fit\n\nNodes that are offline, in maintenance, without a healthy agent or without enough memory or storage are left out.\n- ### Your weights\n\nSet how much free memory, CPU and storage count in Settings, Placement.\n- ### Balance suggestions\n\nA node above your memory or CPU threshold gets suggestions: which guest, where to, what it frees and how long it takes.\n- ### You decide\n\nNothing moves on its own. Tick the suggestions you want and start one balance run.\n- ### Also in the API\n\nCreate a guest with node=auto and the API places it the same way."},{"heading":"How to use it","content":"Up and running in 3 steps, all in the panel.\n\n1. Create a guest and keep Node on Automatic (recommended).\n2. Open Balance when a node is busy and review the suggestions.\n3. Start the ones you want; they run one after another.\n\n[Placement & balancing: step-by-step guide in the docs](https://docs.nexovirt.com/guides/migration/)"},{"heading":"See it in the panel","content":"Real screenshots from NexoVirt, with demo data.\n\n![Automatic placement with the recommended node and why.](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/create-guest-light.webp?v=1792068738)\n\nAutomatic placement with the recommended node and why.\n\n![Placement weights, balancing thresholds and failover settings.](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/placement-light.webp?v=1792068738)\n\nPlacement weights, balancing thresholds and failover settings."},{"heading":"Related pages","content":"- [ Migration & evacuation Move guests between separate nodes and clusters, live, with a safety copy. ](https://nexovirt.com/features/migration)\n- [ Assisted failover Bring a failed node's guests back from their latest PBS backups. ](https://nexovirt.com/features/failover)\n- [ Guest management Every VM and container across all hosts in one searchable list with bulk actions. ](https://nexovirt.com/features/guests)\n- [ All features Everything NexoVirt adds to Proxmox VE. ](https://nexovirt.com/features)"},{"heading":"Start running NexoVirt today","content":"Free for homelabs with unlimited VMs on up to 2 nodes. Running a hosting business? Upgrade in place when you grow, no migration.\n\n[Install free](https://docs.nexovirt.com/getting-started/installation/) [See pricing](https://nexovirt.com/pricing)"}],"faq":[]}