In the previous article I gave you a presentation of the infrastructure that I set up to produce my series of articles on Nutanix Move.

In this new article, we will see how to deploy the Nutanix Move virtual machine on our Nutanix AHV cluster.

Prerequisites and update of the Move image

The deployment of Nutanix Move on the latest versions of AHV with a Prism Central 2024 must be done from the marketplace, one of the new features of recent versions of Prism Central.

If you have not yet deployed Prism Central on your cluster in AOS 6.8: https://juliendumur.fr/nutanix-ce-2-1-deployer-prism-central-pc-2024/

Then, before deploying Nutanix Move, it is necessary to update the disk image integrated into Prism Central. To download the latest version of Move, go to the following link: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads?product=move

You need to download the file “Move QCOW2 file for AHV”:

Then go to Prism Central, in “Infrastructure > Compute and Storage > Images” and click on “Add Image”:

On the next page, click on “+ Add file”, select the image that has just been downloaded from the Nutanix website and click on “Next”:

On the next page, leave as default and click “Save”:

Please wait while the image is transferred and processed:

Once this is done we can move on to deployment.

Nutanix Move deployment

To deploy Nutanix Move, you need to log in to Prism Central and go to the Marketplace menu in the Admin Center. In the drop-down menu at the top of the interface, select “Admin Center” and then click on “Marketplace”:

Then, simply click on the “Get” button in the “Move” box and then on the “Deploy” button on the Move page to start the deployment process:

The page that is then displayed allows you to configure all the parameters that we want to assign to the Move virtual machine that we are going to deploy. The first field to modify is the “Application Name” field that must be filled in:

In the following fields, no changes are needed to the VM name or its hardware configuration:

For disk configuration, modify the image to select the one we transferred to the cluster previously:

Select the network on which to place the Move virtual machine:

Then enter the identifiers to assign to the SSH account:

The virtual machine deployment start:

You can track the VM deployment on the “My Apps” page of the Admin Center, if you click on “Manage”:

Once the deployment is complete and Nutanix Move is functional, the status will change to “Running”: