Today, 2021-04-22, a new major version, 4.0, of Nutanix Move (Move) has been released. I’m sure you already know that Move is a VM migration tool which makes it possible to migrate VMs between environments with minimal downtime.
The below picture explains the architecture of Move
Picture borrowed from Nutanix official web site – The Move User Guide.
Move supports migrating VMs between the below list of environments where VM source environment is listed first and the second environment is the target:
- VMware ESXi to Nutanix clusters on AWS and VMware ESXi to AHV
- VMware ESXi on legacy infrastructure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- Microsoft Hyper-V to Nutanix clusters on AWS and Microsoft Hyper-V to AHV
- AWS EC2 to Nutanix clusters on AWS and AWS EC2 to AHV
- AWS EC2 to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- Nutanix AHV to AWS EC2
- Microsoft Azure to AHV (Added in Move 4.0 as tech preview)
- Microsoft Azure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix (Added in Move 4.0 as tech preview)
Apart from adding support for AOS versions 5.19.1 & 5.19.2 plus support for Prism Central (PC) versions pc.2021.1 & pc.2021.3 the new release comes with the following enhancements:
- ESXi based Nutanix clusters can contain Storage Only nodes.
- Auto uninstall of VMware tools as part of the migration
- Support for RedHat Enterprise Linux version 8.3 when migrating from ESXi to AHV.
- RHEL 8.3 VMs from ESXi to AHVReal time logs on Move UI
- Real time log investigation in Move UI.
As you can see, great migration capabilities with Nutanix Move.
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