Move Application Migration

This video demonstrate how Nutanix Calm with the help of Nutanix Move can migrate workloads from the public cloud to on-prem as day-2 operations. This custom integration uses Move APIs to automate the entire process via Calm.   Let the community know how you are using Nutanix Calm and Move. Share your thoughts in the forums.    

We are excited to announce the release of Nutanix Move 3.6.0 Adopting new infrastructure platforms often requires organizations to migrate existing workloads against tight timelines. Nutanix Move simplifies this process with infrastructure-level bulk VM migrations, removing the friction associated with onboarding new infrastructure, and enabling businesses to quickly leverage the full potential of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, with near-zero VM or application service outage during migrations. Nutanix Move 3.6.0 is released and the bits are available on the portal for download. Release Notes User Guide What's New in Release 3.6.0 Added Support for Nutanix Clusters on AWS - Move now supports migration to Nutanix Clusters on AWS. Added Support for SUSE 15 VMs - Move now supports migration of SUSE 15 VMs. Added Support for UEFI with Secure Boot for Hyper-V - Move now supports UEFI with secure boot for Hyper-V. Added Support for UEFI with Secure Boot for ESXi - Move now supports UEFI wi

See the new migration plan testing feature that was added with Move 3.5 in action.   Have you used Move? What has been the largest migration you performed? Be the first to reply and let us know.    

Is there a document that guides on how to use Move migration via command line interface?  I know that there is a web GUI tool.  But, I am wondering if there is another way thru CLI.

Hi folks, I have done a successfull VM migration using Nutanix Move 3.5.2 from ESXI 6.5 to AHV 20191030.415. All migration process is validated and fine, the VM can be migrated from ESXI to AHV but it failed when I try to boot in from AHV console as this picture :   

Does anybody encountered this kind of error? when migrating ESXI to AOS. After how many hours of seeding, It show this error. However it is ready to cutover, but doesn’t want to proceed further because of this error. I already checked this VM in EsXi, it already have a VMware tools installed. Hope i can get ideas and recommendations from you guys. Thanks!

i want to migrate my phyical linux server to Nutanix. is there any native nutanix tool to prform this activity?

I hope this is an easy question.  Am I allowed to increase the VCPU and memory resources on the Move VM/Docker without issues?  I know hot-plug is disabled, so it’s in the reboot-world.  I found that we are pegging the CPUs out when we are queueing migrations, so I want to try to get some more throughput on it to take advantage of our 25Gb infrastructure. Thanks

My migration team is doing a good job trying to push as many VM’s through Move to stage reboots after-hours.  I’ve noticed that replication slows way down when we have about 15-20 VM’s waiting for cutover.  I have checked the load on the Move VM and increased the amount of CPUs.  Replication goes well (25Gbit network), but now we only have 2 seed streams going with 19 waiting to cutover.  I have 4 other VM’s that are in the “seeding data” phase, but haven’t started their copies.  Is this a bottleneck within the Move postgres database? Any ideas on how I can get more VM’s copying in parallel? Thanks,

is there any way to created additional users in nutanix move? -jai

New with Nutanix Move.  Deplyed Nutanix Move and need to set IP up.  Selecting new Nutanix-Move VM > Console »  move login is required, which was not asked to set during MOVE setup. What log-on info needed to be set and where, or is there a standard logon there?

We are excited to announce the release of Nutanix Move 3.5.0 Adopting new infrastructure platforms often requires a migration of pre-existing systems. Nutanix Move simplifies bulk migration of existing VMs to Nutanix, eliminating the friction associated with onboarding new IT infrastructure. Businesses can quickly leverage the full potential of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud with near-zero VM downtime during the migration from vSphere ESXi, Hyper-V and Amazon AWS to Nutanix AHV and vSphere ESXi to ESXi on Nutanix. Move also support migration of VMs from Nutanix AHV to Amazon AWS. Nutanix Move 3.5.0 is released and the bits are available on the Portal for Download. Move 3.5.0 Release Notes User Guide New features included in this release; Introduced Migration from AWS to ESXi - You can now migrate VMs from AWS to ESXi on Nutanix appliances. Introduced Test Migration - You can now perform a test migration of the VMs on the target environment before the final cutover. Enhanced Move User Interfa

Hi, I have a question, is it possible to exclude a timeblock from syncing? We want to migrate a machine, wich may not delay in the nigthly schedules. We are now running version 3.4.1

There are a number of reasons you might want to migrate a VM manually in or out of a Nutanix AHV cluster. You could be working with a situation not supported by Move, such as stand-alone ESXi without vCenter or no network path from the old hypervisor to the Nutanix cluster. Possibly you want to save a VM's disks to portable storage media and physically transport them rather than push them across the WAN. If you're wanting to move VM data in or out of AHV, the methods have been provided in this article "Transferring Virtual Disks to an AHV Cluster". If you're just looking to migrate current, working VMs from an ESXi or Hyper-V cluster Nutanix highly recommends using Nutanix Move to migrate VMs to AHV. The manual migration methods require attention to detail and generally involve a larger time investment and more downtime to complete the move. I won't go into full detail on the steps, that's already done in the article I linked, but I will highlight that for any VM you’ll need VirtIO

We are planning our AHV migration and would like to migrate about 75% of our VM’s (~400) during their negotiated patch outage windows to minimize how many app teams get to set our schedule for us.  Most of these outage windows are in the 3AM time frame. We would like to find an automated/scripted way to do the cutover so that we can set a job to run that script overnight during that window.  I’ve seen some REST calls that look like they could do it.  Has anyone actually done it?  If so, would they mind sharing a sanitized snippet of their Powershell/REST code? Thanks in advance!

You may be familiar with using Nutanix Move to migrate VMs into an AHV cluster, or you may have imported VMs to AHV manually following this method, but what if you want to take your VM out of your AHV cluster to use in a non-Nutanix ESXi cluster, or to deploy on Hyper-V or KVM? Note I said non-Nutanix ESXi cluster. If you have a Nutanix ESXi cluster and an AHV cluster it’s much easier to use Async DR migration since this kind of cross hypervisor DR migration is fully supported from Prism. If you need to export your VM from AHV to another hypervisor there is a documented procedure provided. Here we will be using the articles “AHV | How to access VM disk files on Nutanix container” and “AHV | How to migrate user VMs from AHV to Hyper-V/VMware ESXi/KVM”. The first article covers reviewing your VM configuration from ACLI to identify the VM disks which are named by their UUID, and then how to collect those files using the SFTP protocol on port 2222. The second article describes using th

Hi, I am new in Nutanix Move can anyone help me to deploy it in PrismElement using QCOW2 disk file. Also I don’t have that disk file, please help to create it.

I just migrated a VM with Windows 2008 R2 from ESXi 6.0 to AHV but I got blue screen when I turned it on in nutanix cluster. I used move version 3.4.1 somebody knows what happened.

I am trying to add Hyper-V host to Move to migrate the VMs.   But after adding the host, VM inventory are not loading(Shows 0 VMs) . When i try to refresh i get below error:   Failed to get inventory for source ' '. [ApiName="Get VM", HypervisorErr="[Cmd="Get-VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty DVDDrives | Select ControllerType, ControllerNumber, ControllerLocation, Path, SupportPersistentReservations, VMName, VMId | ConvertTo-Json -Compress | Out-File -FilePath C:\Users\xtract\AppData\Local\Temp\executeCmd385362813\Ouput.json", ErrorMsg="exit status 1", Location="/root/workspace/xtract_vm_qcow2_builder_prod/go/src/hypervisor/hyperv/hyperv_agent/utils.go:96", Stderr="#< CLIXML <Objs Version="1.1.0.1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/2004/04"><Obj S="progress" RefId="0"><TN RefId="0"><T>System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject</T><T>System.Object</T></TN><MS><I64 N="SourceId">1</I64><PR N="Record"&gt

Hi This is my first blog entry and therefore I would like to introduce myself briefly. My name is Omero Muscio, I have been working at Amanox Solutions in Switzerland as Presales Engineer for a little more than half a year. This means that I mainly take care of the customers' technical concerns, create sizings, carry out PoCs and go to the customer to carry out post-sales activities. How-To Cancel Stuck Move Migration Plan: With Nutanix Move 3.3.1, we had the error twice at our customer's site that the migration plan did not fail after manual abort, but hung up. With the help of Nutanix Support, we were able to quickly find a solution to this problem. Log in to the AHV VM via SSH or in the console. Username: admin PW: nutanix/4u enter rs,this is similar to sudo or su From now on you are logged in as root@move. Now we connect to the Postgre database: postgres-shell to open the PG-Shell psql -d datamover to get into the corresponding PSQL shell With the help of the command select mpuui

Considering using Nutanix Move to migrate your environment to AHV but confused regarding the compatibility and firewall requirements Let’s break the information to help you plan your migration smoothly The following guide lists the firewall requirements and the ports to be opened for the Nutanix Move Move firewall Guide So what should be the AOS version and the supported Source Hypervisors which are supported and recommended by Nutanix? Go through the compatibility matrix below to give you a better idea regarding the compatibility of Nutanix Move with a different hypervisor Move Compatibility  Matrix Are there any limitations for Migration? Yes there are few limitations which should be kept in mind before using Move Move limitation Have a query regarding Nutanix Move? Start a conversation in the Move Application Migration forum  

Thinking of migrating your workload from a different hypervisor to AHV but confused regarding the timeline. Migration of large data is always a time-consuming process and should be planned effectively. Nutanix presents you with an estimated time taken for migration of different workloads with a different configuration. Planning your maintenance  window for the migration? Go through the link mentioned below to get an estimate idea regarding the time taken for migration and plan accordingly. Move Migration Guide    Have a query regarding Move?  Start a conversation in the Move Application Migration forum

Hello all,05 months ago, I faced from some difficulties to perform P2V to AHV for UeFi servers : I performed P2V using VMware Converter to migrate to an ESXi server; and after I used “move” to migrate to AHV. While booting the VM, I saw a black screen and nothing else appeared on the screen.As I said above, it happened 05 months ago; At this time, Nutanix did not support migration of Uefi servers yet.Since the release of AOS5.11 and Move 3.3, Nutanix supports the migration of Uefi servers (As explained in the release notes).So I migrated AOS to the latest version (5.11.1) and used Move 3.3.1 to perform migrations of 03 servers that use Uefi.In spite of that, the VMs displays nothing while booting...even if I wait for several minutes, I get nothing.In PRISM, I switched the boot mode to BIOS and after to Uefi, but I got the same results.In vCenter, I switched the boot mode to BIOS before performing migration. After Migration (using Move 3.3.1), the results are the same. Could you help me

Nutanix Move (Move) is a cross-hypervisor migration solution to migrate VMs with minimal downtime. Let’s say you have a range of Virtual Machines with a different operating system in your environment and now confused which Virtual Machines are supported by Nutanix Move for Migration. There are different types of Migration and the pre-requisites regarding the supported OS can change for different types. ESXi To AHV. ESXi to ESXi. AWS Migration. Hyper-V to AHV. Interested to know more Nutanix Move? Go through the  Move Guide Move Guide  Confused regarding Nutanix Move or have a query regarding the functionality? Drop a comment and let’s have a discussion.  Start a conversation in the Move Application Migration forum  

Want to shift to an AHV cluster but worried about the migration of your UEFI boot enabled VMs. The latest version of Move 3.3.0 now supports migration of UEFI enabled VM. So what all you need if you want to migrate your virtual machines using Move AOS  version should be 5.11 or above Move version should be 3.3.0 or above  The UEFI VM should be supported by AHV   Please check the compatibility matrix for the UEFI Supported VM before proceeding.Compatibility  Matrix    Interested to know more about the technology?  Go through the guide Move User Guide    Start a conversation in the Move Application Migration forum