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!

Prerequisites

For everything to go well, some prerequisites must be taken into account and here are the 3 most important in my opinion:

• Supported operating systems
• Nutanix Move Agent installed on the hypervisor
• Linux Azure installed on Linux virtual machines

All the prerequisites in the official documentation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Move-v5_4:top-hyperv-vm-migration-c.html

Creating the migration plan from Microsoft Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV

On the Nutanix Move interface, click on the “+ New Migration Plan” button and name the migration plan:

On the next screen, you must choose the source cluster on the one hand, then the destination cluster with the associated Storage Container:

Here, this gives:

• 1 – HyperV Cluster
• 2 – Nutanix Cluster
• 3 – DefaultStorangeContainer

On the next screen, it’s time to choose the virtual machines you want to migrate by clicking on the “+” buttons at the beginning of the line. Ici je vais choisir uniquement une machine virtuelle que je sais non supportée pour la méthode manuelle :

Here, I chose to select the Ubuntu_4 and Windows_4 virtual machines.

On the next screen, it is the network mapping that needs to be done. For each network available on your Hyper-V cluster, you will need to assign a network from your Nutanix cluster:

Here, I have only one network in my demo environment. If you have multiple networks on your Hyper-V cluster, you will need to create them all on the AHV side in order to achieve an identical mapping on both sides.

The next window allows you to configure the preparation of virtual machines.

Automatic preparation of virtual machines

The recommended mode is the automatic mode because Nutanix Move will take care of all the operations once the machine login credentials are configured.

Please note that automatic mode only works on operating systems fully supported by Nutanix Move.

To check if the operating systems of your VMs are supported, I advise you to look in the official documentation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Move-v5_4:top-hyperv-vm-migration-c.html

You will then need to configure the identifiers of the Windows and Linux virtual machines:

The general option is only valid if you have set the same username and password on all your virtual machines (example for Windows: the domain administrator account).

If this is not the case, you can customize all the settings per virtual machine by clicking on “Change settings” under “Override individual VM Preparation”:

Manual preparation of virtual machines

The overall configuration remains the same, but when configuring the virtual machine preparation mode if you choose Manual mode you will have a different page:

No need to provide login credentials to virtual machines. On the other hand, all the automated preparation part carried out by Nutanix Move on your virtual machines will have to be done manually on each machine.

Nutanix Move provides scripts for Linux and Windows servers that you will have to run manually. A much more time-consuming option and source of potential errors that make me systematically prefer the automatic mode.

However, this migration mode may sometimes be necessary, particularly to migrate virtual machines whose operating system is not officially supported by Nutanix Move.

Finalizing the migration plan

On the next screen, the configuration of the virtual machines allows you to prioritize or not the migration operations, to choose the time zone that you wish to assign or even to schedule the start of the data transfer:

Don’t panic though, enabling data transfer does not mean that the machines will be migrated, simply the data of these machines will start to synchronize with the target cluster. This synchronization will continue as long as you do not trigger the migration.

Once your configurations are complete, Move will display a summary of your migration plan:

Click on “Save” to validate it, your migration plan is ready and you can find it on the Nutanix Move home page:

Other migration plans can be created in the same way.

Now that our Nutanix Move virtual machine is deployed, it is time to configure our second cluster to migrate: Microsoft Hyper-V.

Creating a Move account on Hyper-V

In the same spirit as for ESXi, in order not to use the “administrator” account of the server or domain and to respect good security practices, I created a user dedicated to Nutanix Move on my Hyper-V cluster.

Once connected to my cluster, right-click on the “Start > Computer Management” button:

Click on “Local Users and Groups > Users” in the Action menu click on “New User” and fill in the necessary fields:

Then, in “Local Users and Groups > Groups”, add the previously created account to the “Administrators” group:

The service account dedicated to Nutanix Move is created on the Hyper-V cluster, now let’s add the cluster on the Nutanix Move side.

Installing the Move Agent

Before you can add your Hyper-V cluster to Nutanix Move, it is imperative to install the Move Agent.

To download it, go to the following URL: https://MOVE-IP/downloads/agents/move-agent-installer.exe by replacing “MOVE-IP” with the IP address you assigned to Nutanix Move.

Once the executable is downloaded, move it to the directory of your choice, for my part I put it at the root of the hard drive. You must then open a Powershell command prompt in administrator mode and run the following command:

move-agent-installer.exe -o install -ip MOVE-IP -u USER

Always replacing MOVE-IP with the IP address of your Nutanix Move and USER with the login of the service account dedicated to Move previously created:

PS C:> .\move-agent-installer.exe -o install -ip 192.168.2.240 -u move
Enter password for user [move]:

Hyper-V host pre-checks results:

OS validation successful: [Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation]

Firewall: Inbound port [8087] is open

Service state: [Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management] is running

Service install successful. Please check logs at [C:\Users\move\Nutanix\Move.7.0\logs].
PS C:>

Adding the Hyper-V cluster on Nutanix Move

To add the Hyper-V environment on Nutanix Move, you need to connect to the Move interface and click on the “+ Add Environment” button on the home page:

In the window that appears, you must:

• 1 – select the Microsoft Hyper-V environment type
• 2 – name the environment that you are adding
• 3 – enter the IP address of the cluster or server if there is only one node
• 4 – enter the username and password of the service account created on Hyper-V

Click “Add” and wait while the cluster is added. You may encounter an error regarding WinRM while adding the cluster. If this is the case, connect to the Hyper_V cluster and type the following powershell command:

winrm quickconfig

If you followed all the steps, your cluster will appear in the list on the left of the Nutanix Move interface:

Official documentation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Move-v5_4:top-upload-vddk-library-t.html