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Nutanix Move is a VM appliance typically hosted on the target AHV cluster. Several software services come together to build Nutanix Move, but we can group them into the following major software components:
The architecture for each source environment that Move uses is slightly different, but Nutanix makes the difference in implementation invisible to users.
The architecture of Nutanix Move for ESXi uses vCenter for inventory collection and vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection (VADP), the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), and Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for data migration.
The architecture of Nutanix Move for Hyper-V has an agent on each Hyper-V server that makes up part of the Hyper-V cluster. It then uses the agents to move data and the Hyper-V Manager to collect inventory.
The architecture of Nutanix Move for AWS is somewhat different from Move in other environments. When you add AWS as an environment, the Move appliance connects to AWS for inventory and uses the Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs for data migration. Move no longer creates an agent VM as it did in earlier versions.
The architecture of Nutanix Move for Azure is similar to the architecture of Move for AWS in that it uses the Azure Public Cloud REST APIs to collect inventory and access storage.
