Once the deployment of the Nutanix Move appliance is complete, it remains to carry out its initial configuration in order to begin setting up future migration plans.

Network setup

To configure the network and switch to fixed IP, you must connect to the Move VM in SSH with the account “admin” and the password “nutanix/4u”. As this is the first connection, you will be asked to change the password.

Once the new password is configured, the network configuration tool launches automatically and you just have to follow the instructions:

Alpine Linux v3.16 (3.16.2) - Nutanix Move

Welcome to Nutanix Move. Please refer to the Move documentation
to know more about the console usage and troubleshooting.

https://www.nutanix.com/products/move/

Do you want to configure static IPv4 address? (y/N)
y
Enter Static IPv4 Address (e.g. 192.168.1.3)
192.168.2.240
Enter Netmask (e.g. 255.255.255.0)
255.255.255.0
Enter Gateway IP Address (e.g. 192.168.1.254)
192.168.2.254
Enter DNS Server 1 IP Address (e.g. 128.91.2.13)
8.8.8.8
Enter DNS Server 2 IP Address (e.g. 128.91.2.14)
8.8.4.4
Enter Domain (e.g. my.dc.domain)
homelab.local

Static IPv4 configuration provided:
ipaddress * 192.168.2.240
netmask * 255.255.255.0
gateway * 192.168.2.254
dns1 * 8.8.8.8
dns2 * 8.8.4.4
domain * homelab.local

Configuring static IPv4 …

WARNING: you are stopping a boot service
WARNING: you are stopping a boot service

Stopping busybox ntpd … [ ok ]
Stopping networking …
lo … [ ok ]
eth0 …

First login

In the “My Apps” menu of the Admin Center, you can click on “Open” to access the Nutanix Move web interface:

The first thing you will be asked to do is accept the End User License Agreement:

You will then be asked to set up a password to secure access to Move:

And finally, choose the type of migration you want to perform. This choice has no impact on the rest of the events, you will be able to perform the 2 types of migration regardless of your choice:

Congratulations, Nutanix Move is now deployed on your Nutanix cluster:

But that’s not all!

Nutanix Move Basic Configurations

There are still a few small configurations to be done to have an optimal Nutanix Move deployment. The appliance configuration is located in the gear menu at the top right, then in “Appliance Settings”:

Among the options that can be customized, the only one that is of real interest to me is the NTP part to ensure consistent time synchronization across your entire Nutanix cluster:

For the NTPs, no problem since you just need to enter the same NTPs as those you configured on the Prism Element side:

The “Prism Central Registration” part is intended to override the Move authentication that you configured at the first connection by authentication via the accounts present in Prism Central that you wish to authorize to connect to the Nutanix Move appliance:

That’s it, your Nutanix Move is now ready to use. In the next blog posts we will see how to add ESXi, Hyper-V and AHV clusters and how to configure the first migration plan.