In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines which provides almost no VM downtime during the migration from vSphere ESXi to Nutanix AHV.
Now, 2018-01-30, version 1.1.2 has been released and it comes with a few enhancements which can/will make your even life easier when migrating VMs to Nutanix hypervisor AHV.
- Can keep Mac addresses from source to target.
- Supports migration from ESXi 5.1 -> ESXi 5.5.
- Enhancements to tracking migration data size for ongoing migrations.
- UI enhancements
- Specify a custom HTTPS port for vCenter Server if needed.
- Contains VirtIO 1.1.2, which is distributed to migrated VMs.
Base functionality of Xtract for VMs are:
- Migrate powered on or powered off VMs
- Pause and resume migration
- Schedule migration
- Schedule data-seeding for the virtual machines in advance and cut over to a new AHV cluster
- Manage VM migrations between multiple clusters from a single management interface
- Sort and group VMs for easy migration
- Monitor details of migration plan execution even at the individual VM level
- Cancel in-progress migration for individual VMs
- Migrate all AHV certified OSes
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Did I mention the tool is free of charge….