Migrating to Nutanix

VM Migrations

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Nutanix Move can migrate VMs onto the Nutanix Cloud Platform from many different hypervisors such as ESXi and Hyper-V as well as from AWS EC2, VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS and Microsoft Azure. For the most up-to-date listing of supported migrations check the Move user guide.

Move allows you to create different migration plans to migrate your VMs. Below are some best practices for VM migration plans.

VM Migration Best Practices

• Group VMs for Migration
  • Migrate in parallel from multiple hosts
  • Max of 50 VMs per Migration Plan
    • Migrations for ESXi Support up to 100 max VMs
• Optimize your Schedule
  • Pre-seed VM data in advance of cutover
  • Cutover should be within one week of the initial pre-seed
  • Elongated seeding windows can incur additional disk usage in the source VM.
• Guest OS Preparation
  • Two key reasons why VM prep fails:
    • UAC and WinRM
  • Switch to Manual mode to troubleshoot VM preparation issues
• DB Server Migrations
  • Move supports “like for like” migrations
  • DB Server migrations should follow best practices and may require re-platforming
  • Move can migrate Databases, but you need to apply best practices after migrations