diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-container.yml b/.github/workflows/build-container.yml
index 9c629cee..76cde126 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-container.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-container.yml
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        test: ["sanity", "state_transitions", "state_transitions_both_gws", "state_transitions_loop", "state_transitions_rand_loop", "late_registration", "late_registration_loop", "4gws", "4gws_loop", "4gws_create_delete", "4gws_create_delete_loop", "namespaces", "namespaces_loop", "mtls", "notify", "ceph_status"]
+        test: ["sanity", "ns_lb_change", "state_transitions", "state_transitions_both_gws", "state_transitions_loop", "state_transitions_rand_loop", "late_registration", "late_registration_loop", "4gws", "4gws_loop", "4gws_create_delete", "4gws_create_delete_loop", "namespaces", "namespaces_loop", "mtls", "notify", "ceph_status"]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       HUGEPAGES: 1024  # 4 spdk instances
diff --git a/tests/ha/ns_lb_change.sh b/tests/ha/ns_lb_change.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33ed0226
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ha/ns_lb_change.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+set -xe
+# See
+# - https://github.com/spdk/spdk/blob/master/doc/jsonrpc.md
+# - https://spdk.io/doc/nvmf_multipath_howto.html
+
+GW1_NAME=$(docker ps --format '{{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}' | awk '$2 ~ /nvmeof/ && $2 ~ /1/ {print $1}')
+GW2_NAME=$(docker ps --format '{{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}' | awk '$2 ~ /nvmeof/ && $2 ~ /1/ {print $1}')
+
+ip="$(docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' "$GW1_NAME")"
+ip2="$(docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' "$GW2_NAME")"
+
+echo -n "ℹ️  Starting bdevperf container"
+docker compose up -d bdevperf
+sleep 10
+echo "ℹ️  bdevperf start up logs"
+make logs SVC=bdevperf
+BDEVPERF_SOCKET=/tmp/bdevperf.sock
+NVMEOF_DISC_PORT=8009
+
+echo "ℹ️  Using discovery service in gateway $GW1 ip  $ip"
+rpc="/usr/libexec/spdk/scripts/rpc.py"
+echo "ℹ️  bdevperf bdev_nvme_set_options"
+make exec SVC=bdevperf OPTS=-T CMD="$rpc -v -s $BDEVPERF_SOCKET bdev_nvme_set_options -r -1"
+echo "ℹ️  bdevperf start discovery ip: $ip port: $NVMEOF_DISC_PORT"
+make exec SVC=bdevperf OPTS=-T CMD="$rpc -v -s $BDEVPERF_SOCKET bdev_nvme_start_discovery -b Nvme0 -t tcp -a $ip -s $NVMEOF_DISC_PORT -f ipv4 -w"
+echo "ℹ️  bdevperf bdev_nvme_get_discovery_info"
+make exec SVC=bdevperf OPTS=-T CMD="$rpc -v -s $BDEVPERF_SOCKET bdev_nvme_get_discovery_info"
+echo "ℹ️  bdevperf perform_tests"
+eval $(make run SVC=bdevperf OPTS="--entrypoint=env" | grep BDEVPERF_TEST_DURATION | tr -d '\n\r' )
+timeout=$(expr $BDEVPERF_TEST_DURATION) # \* 2)
+echo $timeout
+bdevperf="/usr/libexec/spdk/scripts/bdevperf.py"
+echo "run io test"
+make exec SVC=bdevperf OPTS=-T CMD="$bdevperf -v -t $timeout -s $BDEVPERF_SOCKET perform_tests"
+#test write ios for the ns1 
+num_bytes="$(docker compose run --rm nvmeof-cli --server-address $ip --server-port 5500"  --output stdio --format json namespace get_io_stats -n nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 --nsid 1 | jq '.bytes_written')"
+echo $num_bytes
+echo "change lb group of ns 1"
+
+docker compose run --rm nvmeof-cli --server-address $ip --server-port 5500  namespace change_load_balancing_group -n nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 --nsid 1 --load-balancing-group 2
+
+
+echo "run io test again"
+make exec SVC=bdevperf OPTS=-T CMD="$bdevperf -v -t $timeout -s $BDEVPERF_SOCKET perform_tests"
+num_bytes1="$(docker compose run --rm nvmeof-cli --server-address $ip1 --server-port 5500"  --output stdio --format json namespace get_io_stats -n nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 --nsid 1 | jq '.bytes_written')"
+echo $num_bytes1
+
+
+