Nutanix Move 3.5 Released

A new version of Nutanix Move has been released. This is the first dot release in 2020 and the latest version available is now 3.5. As you might know Move is a VM migration tool which makes it possible to migrate VMs between the following environments with minimal downtime:

• VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV
• VMware ESXi on legacy infrastructure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
• Microsoft Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV
• AWS EC2 to Nutanix AHV
• AWS EC2 to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
• Nutanix AHV to AWS EC2

The below picture explains the architecture of Move

Picture borrowed from Nutanix official web site – The Move User Guide.

Quite a few new features in the 3.5 release e.g.:

• Support or VMware vSphere, both vCenter Server snd ESXi,  6.7 Update 3
• Changing Transport Protocol from TCP to KCP is desired.
• Enhancements to the UI
• Test migration capabilities before final cutover.
• Support for migrating of ESXi source VMs running RHEL 6.10, CentOS 7.5 to 7.7, and Windows Server 2019 versions to AHV.

As you can see, great migration capabilities with Nutanix Move.

Useful Links

• Move 3.5 – Download
• Move 3.5 – Release Notes
• Move 3.5 – User Guide