diff --git a/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate.go b/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate.go
index ceacb394..df2686cb 100644
--- a/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate.go
+++ b/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate.go
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ func moveNodes(id string, params *VacateParams, p *pool.Pool) ([]pool.Validator,
 			WithAllocatorID(id).
 			WithMoveOnly(params.MoveOnly).
 			WithContext(api.WithRegion(context.Background(), params.Region)).
+			//WithForceMove(params.ForceMove).
 			WithValidateOnly(ec.Bool(true)),
 		params.AuthWriter,
 	)
@@ -282,6 +283,7 @@ func newVacateClusterParams(params addAllocatorMovesToPoolParams, id, kind strin
 		Output:              params.VacateParams.Output,
 		OutputFormat:        params.VacateParams.OutputFormat,
 		MoveOnly:            params.VacateParams.MoveOnly,
+		ForceMove:           params.VacateParams.ForceMove,
 		PlanOverrides:       params.VacateParams.PlanOverrides,
 	}
 
@@ -391,6 +393,7 @@ func newMoveClusterParams(params *VacateClusterParams) (*platform_infrastructure
 		platform_infrastructure.NewMoveClustersParams().
 			WithAllocatorDown(params.AllocatorDown).
 			WithMoveOnly(params.MoveOnly).
+			WithForceMove(params.ForceMove).
 			WithAllocatorID(params.ID).
 			WithContext(api.WithRegion(context.Background(), params.Region)).
 			WithValidateOnly(ec.Bool(true)).
@@ -416,6 +419,7 @@ func newMoveClusterParams(params *VacateClusterParams) (*platform_infrastructure
 	var moveParams = platform_infrastructure.NewMoveClustersByTypeParams().
 		WithAllocatorID(params.ID).
 		WithAllocatorDown(params.AllocatorDown).
+		WithForceMove(params.ForceMove).
 		WithContext(api.WithRegion(context.Background(), params.Region)).
 		WithBody(req)
 
@@ -655,6 +659,10 @@ func ComputeVacateRequest(pr *models.MoveClustersDetails, resources, to []string
 			c.CalculatedPlan.PlanConfiguration.OverrideFailsafe = overrides.OverrideFailsafe
 		}
 
+		if overrides.ForceMove != nil {
+			c.CalculatedPlan.PlanConfiguration.ForceMove = overrides.ForceMove
+		}
+
 		c.CalculatedPlan.PlanConfiguration.PreferredAllocators = to
 		req.ElasticsearchClusters = append(req.ElasticsearchClusters,
 			&models.MoveElasticsearchClusterConfiguration{
diff --git a/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params.go b/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params.go
index 23f4168d..0df2a93a 100644
--- a/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params.go
+++ b/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ var (
 )
 
 // VacateParams used to vacate N allocators or clusters.
-//nolint
+// nolint
 type VacateParams struct {
 	*api.API
 
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ type VacateParams struct {
 	// bare minimum to move the requested instances across to another allocator.
 	MoveOnly *bool
 
+	// Optional value to be set to force_move to true for primitive vacate or false for standard.
+	ForceMove *bool
+
 	// SkipTracking skips displaying and waiting for the individual vacates to complete.
 	// Setting it to true will render the concurrency flag pretty much ineffective since
 	// the vacate action is asynchronous and the only thing keeping the working items in
@@ -166,6 +169,7 @@ type VacateClusterParams struct {
 	TrackFrequency time.Duration
 	AllocatorDown  *bool
 	MoveOnly       *bool
+	ForceMove      *bool
 	Output         *output.Device
 	OutputFormat   string
 	MaxPollRetries uint8
@@ -222,4 +226,5 @@ type PlanOverrides struct {
 	SkipSnapshot      *bool
 	SkipDataMigration *bool
 	OverrideFailsafe  *bool
+	ForceMove         *bool
 }
diff --git a/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params_test.go b/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params_test.go
index 11dde5eb..5d06e921 100644
--- a/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params_test.go
+++ b/pkg/api/platformapi/allocatorapi/vacate_params_test.go
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ func TestVacateClusterParamsValidate(t *testing.T) {
 		TrackFrequency time.Duration
 		AllocatorDown  *bool
 		MoveOnly       *bool
+		ForceMove      *bool
 		Output         *output.Device
 		OutputFormat   string
 		MaxPollRetries uint8
diff --git a/pkg/models/elasticsearch_plan_control_configuration.go b/pkg/models/elasticsearch_plan_control_configuration.go
index 2a25a031..3cea3d9a 100644
--- a/pkg/models/elasticsearch_plan_control_configuration.go
+++ b/pkg/models/elasticsearch_plan_control_configuration.go
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ type ElasticsearchPlanControlConfiguration struct {
 	// If true (default: false), does not take (or require) a successful snapshot to be taken before performing any potentially destructive changes to this cluster
 	SkipSnapshot *bool `json:"skip_snapshot,omitempty"`
 
+	// If false (default: true), will run standard vacate
+	ForceMove *bool `json:"force_move,omitempty"`
+
 	// If false (the default), the cluster will perform a snapshot after a major version upgrade takes place
 	SkipSnapshotPostMajorUpgrade *bool `json:"skip_snapshot_post_major_upgrade,omitempty"`