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.
Happy reading!
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.
Happy reading!
Sunday 22 September 2024
2 Comments
Nutanix Move part 1: what Nutanix's migration tool does, the supported sources (ESXi, Hyper-V, AWS) and its main features.
Monday 23 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 2: my ESXi and Hyper-V source clusters with 8 VMs each, and the AHV target cluster on AOS 6.8.1 with Move 5.1.1.
Monday 23 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 3: prerequisites before migrating, what cannot be migrated (domain controllers, Exchange), network flows, ESXi and Hyper-V specifics.
Tuesday 24 September 2024
No comments
In this new article, we will see how to deploy and configure the Nutanix Move virtual machine on our Nutanix AHV cluster.
Tuesday 24 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 5: initial appliance setup, static IP over SSH with the admin account, first login to the web interface and basic settings.
Wednesday 25 September 2024
1 Comment
Now that our Nutanix Move virtual machine is deployed, it is time to configure our first cluster to migrate: VMware ESXi.
Wednesday 25 September 2024
No comments
Now that our Nutanix Move virtual machine is deployed, it is time to configure our second cluster to migrate: Microsoft Hyper-V.
Wednesday 25 September 2024
No comments
After the source cluster under VMware ESXi, we must now add the target cluster which run Nutanix AHV.
Thursday 26 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 9: create a VMware ESXi to AHV migration plan, with VMware Tools prerequisites and automatic or manual VM preparation.
Thursday 26 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 10: create a Hyper-V to AHV migration plan, with the Move Agent on the hypervisor and linux-azure on Linux VMs.
Friday 27 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 11: my advice before migrating, careful preparation, plans of about 20 VMs at most, consistent plans and backup jobs paused.
Saturday 28 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 12: migration plan states, starting the ESXi and Hyper-V to AHV migrations, then the cutover.
Sunday 29 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 13: the virtio_scsi driver fails to install on Ubuntu 24.04, so I migrate manually and fix the network with netplan.
Sunday 29 September 2024
No comments
Nutanix Move part 14: an Ubuntu 12.04 VM migrated manually will not boot on AHV. Fixing the boot through a disk image in Prism Central.
