Nutanix Move : Introduction

With the surge in prices for VMWare licenses linked to the company’s acquisition by Broadcom, many customers are looking for alternative solutions to ESXi in order to avoid a hefty bill.

Among the alternatives, there is obviously Nutanix among the alternatives but customers are quite cautious regarding the migration from VMWare ESXi to Nutanix AHV, a task which can be tedious if the VMs have to be migrated one by one.

This is where Nutanix Move comes in. Nutanix Move is a tool made available by Nutanix to facilitate the migration of virtual machines to any cloud.

What will interest us is mainly a migration from ESXi or Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV.

Nutanix Move: virtual machine download

To retrieve the virtual machine image, you must connect to the Nutanix Support portal: https://portal.nutanix.com/ then go to the “Downloads” section:

Click on “Move” and download on the “Move QCOW2 file for AHV” button:

Direct link to download page: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads?product=move

Deploying the Nutanix Move VM on AHV

Once the image has been downloaded, you must upload it to your cluster. To do this, I invite you to follow one of my previous articles: https://juliendumur.fr/en/nutanix-ahv-upload-image-to-your-cluster/

To deploy the Nutanix Move virtual machine, go to VMs, click on “Create VM” and complete the virtual machine creation form:

In the Disks section, add a disk of type “DISK”, in operation select “Clone from Image Service” and select the previously downloaded image:

Click on “Add” then add a network interface, the virtual machine is deployed.

Access to Nutanix Move

Nutanix Move is accessible via http via the IP assigned to it:

The first step is to change the access password:

Nutanix Move is now deployed, we will see in a future article how to add target environments.

Official documentation

Nutanix Move Official Documentation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Move-v5_1:Nutanix-Move-v5_1