Nutanix Migration Lab - Part 2
In part 1 I deployed a Move appliance, and added some source environments. In this post I will migrate a single workload to AHV to test the migration patern
Validate Source and Target Enviroments
I previously I added two source environments (ESX and Hyper-V) and the AHV cluster as target
On each Enviroment clicking on the three dots will show the Environment Details and VMs that can be moved
Source - esx
Source - hyper-v
Target - AVH
Notes: The standalone free version of ESX has restrictions on allowing Move to autheticate to VMs, in later blogs I’ll investigate show some workarounds. Hyper-V Gen 2 instances use EFI not legacy BIOS, this can cause some issues in later blogs I’ll investigate show some workarounds.
Prerequisites Hyper-V
- Guest VMs are Gen 2 with legacy BIOS
- Ensure guest VMs have connectivity with Move.
- Ensure that the guest VMs have integration services installed and an IP address is present in the Networking section of the Hyper-V manager for automatic preparation of the source VMs.
- Disable backups.
- Inbound and outbound ports TCP 5986 and 5985 are enabled for (WinRM) feature to work.
- In the Hyper-V host, download move-agent-installer.exe from http://
/downloads/agents/move-agent-installer.exe . - Launch the command prompt with Run as Administrator to run the following command from C:\Users\Administrator
move-agent-installer.exe -o [operation] -ip [move ip] -u [user]- Replace
with the IP address of the Move VM.
Create and Execute a Migration Plan
Click on create a migration plan and give the plan a name
1) Choose source and destination
2) select the instances to move
3) select the target network
4) The preparation mode
4) VM Settings
Run the setup script on the VM
Review the summary and start
Wait for plan to validate
Plan should change to In Progress
In the details the remaining time can be seen
Finally the plan VM status will change to Ready to Cutover
Open deatils and start the Cutover
Wait for Cutover to complete
Check the source the VM should be powered off and the network card removed
On the nutanix cluster, check the VM is running, connect to the OS, open devmgr and verify the Nutanix drivers are present
