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Domain Controller migration with Move — AHV to AHV

  • April 23, 2026
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Hi Experts!

We are planning a migration from an existing AHV cluster (AOS 6.x) to a new AHV cluster running AOS 7.5.1, and we need to migrate our Active Directory Domain Controllers.

We are aware that the official Move documentation states that DC migration is "not recommended but can be performed with some limitations", and that AOS 6.7+ supports VM Generation ID to reduce USN rollback risks.

We have a few questions :

Has anyone successfully migrated Domain Controllers using Nutanix Move in an AHV-to-AHV scenario on AOS 6.7 or higher ?

Did you experience any USN rollback, replication issues, or post-migration AD inconsistencies ?

Any specific pre/post-migration checks you would recommend for this use case ?

Constraint: We need to keep the same IP addresses for our DCs after migration

Thanks in advance

2 replies

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I have done at home lab and it was smooth.

My pre and post migration for you will be to use Microsoft tools for confirmation of dc health (repadmin and etc).

In our organization we can't risk any sort of down time so we went the hard and long way ;)


JeroenTielen
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I did plenty of them without any issues. I know it is not supported but we tested them correctly before putting them in the correct vlan. 
 

migrating them the official way is just a pain :(.