This is a question that often comes up in technical teams who want to migrate from an old infrastructure to Nutanix AHV: how can we easily migrate our virtual machines?
To answer this question, I decided to write a complete guide on the tool provided for free by Nutanix: Move.
You will find in this guide all the steps to follow to deploy the virtual appliance, add your target / source clusters, create your migration plans and migrate your virtual machines.
Nutanix Move is a software solution designed by Nutanix to facilitate the migration of virtual machines (VMs) from a virtualization environment to a Nutanix infrastructure
In order to write this series of posts, I set up the most representative environments of what we currently find at our customers. Let me introduce them to you so that you have the migration context.
Before starting the process that will allow you to migrate all of your virtual machines to your new Nutanix AHV environment, a quick overview of the prerequisites is required.
In the previous blog post, we saw how to create migration plans from ESXi to AHV. Now it's Hyper-V's turn and you'll see that the process is almost identical!
You thought it was over and that we would go straight to the migration? Well, not quite! I still have a few things to say and share with you before: my final tips and best practices based on my experience!
Now that everything is ready, it is time to migrate the virtual machines from the old Hyper-V and ESXi clusters to the new Nutanix AHV cluster using the migration plans previously created.
It may happen that you host servers whose operating systems are not supported by Nutanix Move. In these rare cases, you will then have to proceed manually to migrate your virtual machines and you may encounter post-migration network issues.
It may happen that you are hosting servers whose operating systems are not supported by Nutanix Move. In these rare cases, you will then have to proceed manually to migrate your virtual machines and you may be faced with post-migration boot issues.
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