Yesterday, 2023-11-09, which is not even 1.5 months after the previous release of Nutanix Move (version 5), which you can read about here, a version of Move was released the latest available version is now 5.1. With Move you can migrate both VMs between environments with minimal downtime and also migrate files to Nutanix Files.
The below picture explains the architecture of Move
Picture borrowed from Nutanix official web site – The Move User Guide.
The following capabilities and improvements has been added to Move 5.1 in addition to bug fixes:
- Migration of vTPM-enabled VM from ESXi to ESXi on Nutanix
- Windows 11 for ESXi to ESXi on Nutanix
- Performance improvements for VM migrations when source is ESXi.
- Move can grant privileges to a user for specific vCenter Server inventory objects
The following migration types are supported with Nutanix Move:
- AHV to NC2 (on AWS/Azure)
- NC2 (on AWS/Azure) to AHV
- NC2 (on Azure) to NC2 (on Azure)
- Nutanix AHV to
- Nutanix AHV
- AWS EC2
- Microsoft Azure Cloud
- NC2 (AWS & Azure)
- NC2 (AWS & Azure) to AHV
- NC2 (on Azure) to NC2 (on Azure)
- 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
You can upgrade to Move 5.1 from the following previous Move versions 4.8.0, 4.9.0, 4.9.1, and 5.0.0.
See Nutanix Move user Guide for hypervisor, AOS, Prism Central and guest operation system support information.
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