Put a Proxmox VE node into maintenance mode

Put a Proxmox VE node into HA maintenance mode so its VMs and containers live-migrate away, then back when you disable it.

Updated 2026-11-12

Maintenance mode live migrates all VMs and CTs to other nodes, and migrates them back when maintenance is over. To enable it on a PVE node called computeX run the following command with root privileges:

ha-manager crm-command node-maintenance enable computeX