Nutanix just released Move 3.3, a tool that easily lets administrators plan, schedule and migrates VMs from other hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V and, yes, even AWS) over to Nutanix AHV.

Many infrastructure teams are running a platform that they’re not happy with. This could be for many reasons including inflexibility, being too complicated, difficult to manage/maintain, crappy support, or one that just costs too damn much.

But even though these are great reasons to move to a new, more modern, more resilient, easier to manage virtualization platform and with the highest NPS score in support, the pain of moving to a new platform can still give even the sharpest infrastructure team pause. That’s usually due to horror stories of platform moves of yesteryear. Many infrastructure guys and gals have either heard these stories or lived them personally. These usually exist from the pain of adopting a different platform riddled with difficult and lengthy processes, time-consuming tasks, all of which usually has to happen on a very tight timeline. These stories frighten not only the infrastructure teams but their management who just see $$$ being burned, rather than saved. These stories make it easier to just keep on keeping on with their existing platform even though they may be greatly dissatisfied, with the product, with their vendor and their crappy support.

In comes Nutanix Move which greatly simplifies the process and the ability to perform bulk VM migrations, taking away all of those pains of the past, and easily move existing VM workloads over to the Nutanix AHV platform with near-zero downtime.

It is a very simple process. First, you select your source, whether that is ESX or Hyper-V from on-prem or from AWS. Then you define a migration plan which allows you to seed the VMs to AHV. Lastly, you migrate the VMs with a non-disruptive replication.

The latest version of Move which was released just a couple of days ago, version 3.3 includes some new features including:

• Support for vCenter Server 6.7 Update 2
• Support for VM migrations with UEFI boot enabled
• Introduces Version 2 of Move APIs for simpler consumption and integration.

For more information about Move, check out these links:

• Nutanix Move 3.3 Download
• Nutanix Move 3.3 User Guide
• Nutanix Move 3.3 Release Notes

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