Move Application Migration

Nutanix Move is a cross-hypervisor mobility solution to move VMs with minimal downtime.  Our latest version, 4.9.1 is available for download. Refer to the release notes and give it a spin and let me know how it's working for you.Have a look at the latest post in our Product Updates section and read how Nutanix Move now migrates between 22,000 and 26,000 VMs to AHV per quarter!Nutanix Move 4.9.1 is now available Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Move: A Year of Remarkable Success and 100,000+ Virtual Machine MigrationsHow many VMs have you migrated using Move? Reply to this post and let me know. You never know, the one with the most may get some Nutanix swag :)

Hi Everyone, We are currently doing AHV to AHV migration from a DC to another DC. I need some tips on maximizing migration performance to ensure the migration can be done in the fastest way as we have limited time. does upgrading CPU/RAM of Move VM do the trick? or is there any settings that can be tweak to increase the performance? Thank you

Hey all. I’m in the midst of testing “Moving” vm’s from ESXi to Nutanix AHV. One of these is testing the move of a vCenter Appliance to an AHV cluster. So far the VCSA does not come up cleanly, seems it loses it’s connection to storage/boot device. I’ve been trying multiple variations of the Move settings, in particular: Bypass Guest Operations on Source VM’s, Retain MAC Address and Skip CDROM AdditionHas anyone successfully completed a Move of a VCSA? Any hints/tips? This may be needed as we vacate ESXi clusters.

Hello experts, we have got a scenario where we need to migrate the Nutanix hardware from one site to another, unfortunately the client does not have any active LICENCES, is there any risk in migrating the VMs and volume groups.Please suggest 

The RAM usage on the Controller VM or Prism Central VM has been high, I have tried deleting all the old logs from the affected CVM’s Logs folder, and freed up space upto 6 GB. But still getting this the crritical alert every few hours.

I am using Nutanix community edition and I want to install Nutanix move for migration of AHV vms to Aws/Azure. But I am unable to get/install nutanix move zip download file or image file for 4.x versions or even 3.x versions as Support portal is asking for service tags. Any suggestions how can I use Nutanix move for community edition? 

Hello everyone, new to Nutanix and we are starting to migrate off of ESXi and into Nutanix. We have migrated 20 Vm’s with no issues. We are doing our next 10 migration and we are reciening this error when seeding “Reader client error: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded” I have verified that Nutanix Drivers are installed on the source VM’s. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was trying to do a cutover of a vm from esxi...and this is the message I received…Bad/incorrect request to 'X.X.X.X' error '422 UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY:{"message":"Cannot create UUID from string ''","detailed_message":"Cannot create UUID from string ''","error_code":{"code":1103,"help_url":"http://my.nutanix.com"}} Anyone have any thoughts or ideas or solutions...

Error with Ubuntu moving AHV:Drivers Installation Failed. Driver(s) virtio_scsi could not be installed for kernel 6.2.0-27-generic

Have anyone seen this one? The migration readiness on Nutanix Move shows ‘Authentication failed’, yet the details of the error are as follows:Failed to execute guest command: 'C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware74\LoadUserProfile.exe' ExitCode: '1326'I had tried looking all over Nutanix and the web without results.I am trying to move a Windows server 2012 (64-bit) machine from ESXi 6.0.0 to a brand-new Nutanix installation with Move 4.8.0. Any help will be highly appreciated!

I have a hyper-v vm that I’m looking to move to AHV.  it’s a database with iscsi mounts.  I know in the past move was not able to convert them.  Is that still the case?  If so does anyone know a way to convert these datastores? thanks. 

I am able to create a Move plan using the API and Ansible for migrating a VM from vSphere to Nutanix. However, I am unable to specify the guest credentials for the guest operations (like removing VMware Tools from the replicated vm during the migration) in the actual rest call (see code below) as is possible using the GUI. I cannot find any way in the API documentation on how to get the credentials into the request. Hope somebody can assist.- name: "Create Move Plan: Task 1.2a - Create Move Plan for OTA" uri: url: "https://{{ move_server_ota }}/move/{{ mapi_version }}/plans" method: POST validate_certs: no force_basic_auth: yes headers: Authorization: "{{ move_token_ota }}" body_format: json body: | { "Spec": { "Name": "{{ move_host_name | lower }}", "NetworkMappings": [ { "SourceNetworkID": "{{ move_source_network_id[0] }}", "TargetNetworkID": "{{ move_ota_target_network_uuid}}",

I was intially told I could use Move to take VMs from old Cluster to New Cluster but alas Move does not move from AHV to AHV, this I find very bizarre as that should be more simple than moving esxi to ahv!So, I have been told to use Data Protection failover - this seems complicated and needs VMs to be stopped and restarted  - I came across Live Migration using Leap - ah ha that looks like a good option but still apears complex.  Do I really need 2 Prism Central instances?  Could I add the second cluster to my exisiting Prism Central then use the Migrate function to move some VMs or is the limitation of different harware still the gotcha?Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this “easily” and “quickly” my boss ain’t a happy man as information from Nutanix has been misleading or downright incorrect.Any help appreciated.

I am facing error “failed to install nutanix app mobility device drivers. error: please check if OSis sha2 compatible”.  we have initiated migration task and while copping/replication process its showing this error.This Server have Windows Server 2012 R2 OS.  

Hello,We are moving VMs from an existing Nutanix cluster with VMWare to a new cluster with AHV using Nutanix Move 4.6 (last version). The problem is that for VMs with more than one network adapter in use IPs are not assigned most of the times to network adapters after the first one. This is happening for VMs running Windows 2016 but I have not checked if the same thing happens por Linux or other Windows versions but I bet it does. For this cases, Move configures those interfaces to get their IPs via DHCP. I read an old post about this behavior but applies to an older version of Nutanix Move (https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA07V000000LWejSAG). Is anyone experiencing the same problem? Am I missing something? Thanks in advance 

We’re testing migrating some workloads out to AWS, our AWS team prefers us to us “Role Based Access” over passing out access keys.  Is there any provision for this or instructions?  I added the role based access permissions to the IAM policy, but receiving the error -  AWS Authorization failed with error: RequestCanceled: request context canceled caused by: context deadline exceededI’m basing this off of what we’re using for our Citrix environment - Role-based authentication for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in AWS | Citrix Blogs

We are planning to migrate 2000 VMs from VMware to Nutanix, I am looking for Power shell script, which can automate the plan creation and start cutover. 

Hello Team, We are trying to migrate Fortisiem VMs ( Collectors & Supervisors ) from VMWARE to AHV using Move but facing Authentication Failed issue. We verified and we have root access to the VMs and all the rights on the 2 VMs.  Also, the distribution of VMs are Redhat 4.4.7-23). Maybe it’ s a problem of Os compatibility, what do you all think. 

We are planning for migrate using Nutanix move from ESXi to AHV.Does it require local admin credentials for migrations for any account with root preveliges is fine.I know the appliance will try to install VirtIO drivers and uninstall vmware tools.But can it be by passed or local admin access is required during migration.Also have another question on Domain controller and Citrix vms running on the vmware ESXi.Are there any pre-requisites to be done before migration. ThanksSriram  

Long story short, W2016 server moving from HV to AHV. VirtIO drivers are installed (before migration) but whenever the machine boots after migrating to AHV, it's bsods with inaccessible boot device. If I go through the whole booting to recovery, deleting the driver and injecting the driver, it boots up but that's a lot of manual handling.When MOVE migrates to AHV it boots up as SATA drive then it seems to clone the disk and reattaches it as a SCSI drive. It boots to the desktop as SATA but then as a SCSI drive it fails, so the driver issue makes sense. The issue is why the drivers are not working when they're installed on the HV machine before migration and don't work after.

Does Nutanix Move support the vm migration if the TLS verson 1.1 or 1.2 in windows server 2016.Please let me know your inputsAs facing issue even after updating the TLS version and restarting the server followed below step but not helping.How to enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2You can use the TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 subkeys to administer and troubleshoot the TLS protocol.TLS 1.1This subkey controls the use of TLS 1.1.Note For TLS 1.1 to be enabled and negotiated, you must create the DisabledByDefault DWORD entry in the appropriate subkey (Client, Server), and then change the DWORD value to 0. By default, this entry does not exist in the registry.Registry pathHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.1To disable the TLS 1.1 protocol,  you must create the Enabled DWORD entry in the appropriate subkey, and then change the DWORD value to 0. To re-enable the protocol, change the DWORD value to 1.By default, this entry does not exist in the registry

Is there any way to migrate a VM running in VMware ESXI to AHV without using Nutanix Move?  What about if the client has the VM files( vmx, vmdk, etc ) in his external storage device and want to import into AHV?

Hi. I’m looking for some experiences in migrating windows user vms from acropolis hypervisor to vmware esxi. I tried and followed severals KBs and articles but none were successful. After powering on windows VM on esxi, they immediately go to the famous “blue screen” and don’t recognize the disk. Articles that I followed: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA032000000PMcKCAWhttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA03200000098T7CAIhttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v5_19:mul-vm-export-as-ova-pc-t.htmlhttps://next.nutanix.com/move-application-migration-19/want-to-export-a-vm-from-ahv-here-s-how-37275Has anyone has experience with this ? Can you help me ? Best regards

Hi all!I’m trying to set up an ESXi environment in Nutanix Move but move complains that the user has insufficient access rights, despite the user being assigned the Admin role in vCenter (and on the user level, not on the group level). Insufficient privileges to perform the operation: User 'Move-User' is missing required privileges for 'vcenter.domain.obfuscated': virtualmachine.config.changetracking,virtualmachine.config.editdevice,virtualmachine.guestoperations.query,virtualmachine.provisioning.diskrandomread,virtualmachine.config.annotation,virtualmachine.config.removedisk,virtualmachine.guestoperations.execute,virtualmachine.state.createsnapshot,virtualmachine.state.removesnapshot,virtualmachine.interact.deviceconnection,global.disablemethods,virtualmachine.config.advancedconfig,virtualmachine.guestoperations.modify,virtualmachine.interact.poweroff,virtualmachine.interact.poweron,virtualmachine.config.rawdevice,virtualmachine.config.settings,global.enablemethods,global.licenses,ses

Hi!We are in the process of migrating our ESXi-vms to Nutanix AHV. Does anyone know if it is a problem to migrate a Witness VM (actually used for two 2-node clusters) to AHV with Nutanix Move or would it be better to install a new one on AHV and switch the clusters over to it?