Now that our Nutanix Move virtual machine is deployed, it is time to configure our first cluster to migrate: VMware ESXi.

Creating a Move account on ESXi

In order not to use the “root” account of my ESXi cluster and to respect good security practices, I preferred to create a user dedicated to Nutanix Move on my ESXi cluster.

Once connected to my cluster, on the host in “Manage”, go to “Security and users > Users”:

Click on “Add a user” and fill in the necessary fields:

Then, right-click on the host and click on “Permissions” then on “Add a user”:

Enter the name of the user previously created (in my case “move”) and assign him administration rights. Click on “Add a user”:

The service account dedicated to Nutanix Move is created, now let’s add the cluster on the Nutanix Move side.

Adding the ESXi cluster on Nutanix Move

To add an ESXi environment on Nutanix Move, you need to connect to the Move interface and click on the “+ Add Environment” button on the home page:

In the window that appears, you must:

• 1 – select the type of VMware ESXi environment
• 2 – name the environment that you are adding
• 3 – enter the IP address of the vCenter or the ESXi host if there is only one node
• 4 – enter the username and password of the service account created on ESXi

Click “Add” and wait while the cluster is added. If you followed all the steps, your cluster will appear in the list on the left of the Nutanix Move interface:

In my case, small Warning on the ESXi cluster since a library is missing (if you have followed the previous articles, this is linked to the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom which no longer makes these files freely accessible, use an earlier version of Nutanix Move to avoid this problem). If you are in the same case as me, click on “Upload VDDK”:

Then click on “Upload” at the end of the line corresponding to the version of the clusters you wish to migrate (you can upload several if you have several cluster versions) to transfer the file(s):

ATTENTION: you must have the VDDK files that you can find here (an active Broadcom customer account is required): https://developer.broadcom.com/sdks/vmware-virtual-disk-development-kit-vddk/latest

Once the addition of the VDDKs is complete, your ESXi source cluster is now operational:

Official documentation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Move-v5_4:top-upload-vddk-library-t.html