Yesterday, 2023-01-04, a new version of Nutanix Move, VM migration tool which makes it possible to migrate VMs between environments with minimal downtime, was released and the most up to date version is now 4.7.
The below picture explains the architecture of Move
Picture borrowed from Nutanix official web site – The Move User Guide.
The 4.7 release comes with the following new features and capabilities:
- Migration from Azure Native to NC2 on Azure.
- Support for PC Projects configuration during migrations.
- Migration of VMs with VMware NSX.
- Retains user data scripts during migration from AWS to AHV.
- Feature to View Target VM Config during migration.
- Feature to configure advance settings on UI.
- Support for VirtIO 1.2.1 version.
The following migration types are now supported with Nutanix Move:
- Nutanix AHV to
- Nutanix AHV
- AWS EC2
- Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Microsoft Hyper-V to
- Hyper-V to AHV
- Hyper-V to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- Hyper-V to NC2 on AW
- AWS EC2 to
- AHV
- VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- NC2 on AWS
- Microsoft Azure Cloud to:
- AHV
- VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- NC2 on Azure
- VMware ESXi on legacy infrastructure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- VMware ESXi to:
- AHV
- ESXi on legacy infrastructure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS
- NC2 on Microsoft Azure
See Nutanix Move user Guide for hypervisor, AOS, Prism Central and guest operation system support information.