New Release – Nutanix Move 5.4.1

On By Qamar AbbasIn Uncategorized

Nutanix Move (Move) is a cross-hypervisor mobility solution to migrate virtual machines (VMs) and files with minimal downtime. Nutanix Move is a data migration tool designed to simplify the process of migrating virtual machines (VMs) from various environments to Nutanix infrastructure. It provides a streamlined way to move workloads, whether they’re on-premises or in public clouds, minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity throughout the process.

Key features of Nutanix Move include:

  1. Seamless Migration: Supports moving VMs with minimal disruption to applications.
  2. Multi-Cloud Compatibility: Facilitates migration across different cloud platforms and hypervisors.
  3. Incremental Transfers: Allows for incremental data transfers, reducing the amount of data moved in the final cutover.
  4. Centralized Management: Offers a user-friendly interface to manage and monitor migration tasks.

Some of the new features in 5.4.1 are as below

  • Automatic installation of Nutanix Guest Tools on the migrated VMs.
  • Configuring Nutanix Self-Service runbooks for execution post VM migration.
  • Migration of vTPM-enabled VMs from Hyper-V to AHV.
  • Installation of Move Agent on Hyper-V hosts on a custom port. The default port is 8087.
  • Report generation for Files migration.
  • Scanning of shares. It also shows the progress of shares migration for Nutanix Files 5.0.0 and above.
  • Automatic target share creation for Files Migrations.

Move supports VM migration from the following sources to targets, where first platform is the source, and second platform is the target.

  • VMware ESXi (legacy infrastructure or Nutanix) to AHV
  • VMware ESXi (legacy infrastructure or Nutanix) to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
  • VMware ESXi to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS
  • VMware ESXi to NC2 on Microsoft Azure
  • VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS to AHV
  • VMC on AWS to NC2 on AWS
  • Microsoft Hyper-V to AHV
  • Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
  • Microsoft Hyper-V to NC2 on AWS
  • AWS EC2 to AHV
  • AWS EC2 to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
  • AWS EC2 to NC2 on AWS
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud to AHV
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud to NC2 on Azure
  • Nutanix AHV to Nutanix AHV
  • Nutanix AHV to AWS EC2
  • Nutanix AHV to Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Nutanix AHV to NC2 on AWS/Azure
  • NC2 on AWS/Azure to Nutanix AHV
  • NC2 on Azure to NC2 on Azure

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