In my previous article, I presented Move, the Nutanix software that facilitates migration to AHV or any other supported hypervisor.

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.

The source clusters

I set up 2 separate clusters on 2 different hypervisors. The first cluster is a VMWare ESXi cluster on which I deployed 8 virtual machines: 4 Windows Server and 4 Linux.

The second cluster is a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster on which I also deployed 8 virtual machines with the same distribution as the first cluster: 4 Windows Server and 4 Linux.

For convenience, the configuration of the VMs is very succinct. I have carried out default installations of the operating systems.

The Linux VMs are Ubuntu Server 20.04 while the Microsoft ones are Windows Servers 2022.

For local accounts, the Linux VMs have logins in “nutanix” and the Windows VMs in “administrator”. The password for all VMs is “nutanix/4u”.

The only difference in configuration between the virtual machines concerns those hosted on ESXi. Indeed, I deployed the VMWare tools on the latter.

The target cluster

The target cluster will be my Nutanix cluster under AOS 6.8.1 and AHV el8.nutanix.20230302.101026.

All migrations will be carried out via Nutanix Move in its version 5.1.1 which we will deploy in the next article.