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How to migrate VMs from one AHV cluster to another AHV cluster?

  • February 14, 2026
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Daniel Martinez
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Hi

Imagine you have two AHV clusters that are Active-Active (each site has live VMs on it). They are both connected and they are doing Metro-Sync between them.

Now you want to move some VMs from one site to the second site. As far as I know I could perform that migration by using MOVE or by doing a manual failover of a protection policy. 

Is there any way to do a “live migration” between clusters without shuting down any VM?

Also, is there any way to do that even if you have Async migration?

I have found this but I understand is only talking about migration between nodes): 

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2029-AHV:nutanix-ahv-live-migration.html

Thanks

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swischer
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  • swischer
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  • February 16, 2026

Hi ​@Daniel Martinez 

you are looking for Cross Cluster Live Migration (CCLM) or in case of not synchronous replicated VMs On Demand Cross Cluster Live Migration (OD-CCLM). With these feature names you might better find the necessary documentations.

Here is the PC 7.5 documentation on OD-CCLM:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-vpc_7_5:mul-cluster-cclm-introduction-pc-c.html

Here is a very new and short Demo Video about that feature:


Hope that helps with your question!

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