Description of problem: Appears that we formally don't support live migration of instances from Havana to Icehouse where they reside on shared storage : 284 def _check_live_migration_api_version(self, server): 285 # NOTE(angdraug): live migration involving a compute host running Nova 286 # API older than v3.23.1 as either source or destination can cause 287 # instance disks to be deleted from shared storage 288 if not self.client.can_send_version('3.23.1'): 289 raise exception.LiveMigrationWithOldNovaNotSafe(server=server) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Live migration when using shared storage fail Expected results: Live migration when using shared storage success Additional info: It was addressed here for Icehouse live migration failed due to no shared storage when using rbd imagebackend http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110367