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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."
url: https://nexovirt.com/features/balancing
---

# Automatic placement and load balancing for Proxmox

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.

[Install free](https://docs.nexovirt.com/getting-started/installation/) [Read the Placement & balancing guide](https://docs.nexovirt.com/guides/migration/)

![Placement & balancing in the NexoVirt panel](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/balance-light.webp?v=1792068738)

## What it does

New guests land where there is room; hot nodes get migration suggestions.

- ### Automatic placement

Choose Automatic when you create a guest and the panel picks the node with the most room, with a short explanation.
- ### Only nodes that fit

Nodes that are offline, in maintenance, without a healthy agent or without enough memory or storage are left out.
- ### Your weights

Set how much free memory, CPU and storage count in Settings, Placement.
- ### Balance suggestions

A node above your memory or CPU threshold gets suggestions: which guest, where to, what it frees and how long it takes.
- ### You decide

Nothing moves on its own. Tick the suggestions you want and start one balance run.
- ### Also in the API

Create a guest with node=auto and the API places it the same way.

## How to use it

Up and running in 3 steps, all in the panel.

1. Create a guest and keep Node on Automatic (recommended).
2. Open Balance when a node is busy and review the suggestions.
3. Start the ones you want; they run one after another.

[Placement & balancing: step-by-step guide in the docs](https://docs.nexovirt.com/guides/migration/)

## See it in the panel

Real screenshots from NexoVirt, with demo data.

![Automatic placement with the recommended node and why.](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/create-guest-light.webp?v=1792068738)

Automatic placement with the recommended node and why.

![Placement weights, balancing thresholds and failover settings.](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/placement-light.webp?v=1792068738)

Placement weights, balancing thresholds and failover settings.

## Related pages

- [ Migration & evacuation Move guests between separate nodes and clusters, live, with a safety copy. ](https://nexovirt.com/features/migration)
- [ Assisted failover Bring a failed node's guests back from their latest PBS backups. ](https://nexovirt.com/features/failover)
- [ Guest management Every VM and container across all hosts in one searchable list with bulk actions. ](https://nexovirt.com/features/guests)
- [ All features Everything NexoVirt adds to Proxmox VE. ](https://nexovirt.com/features)

## Start running NexoVirt today

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[Install free](https://docs.nexovirt.com/getting-started/installation/) [See pricing](https://nexovirt.com/pricing)