Nutanix Move

In the Ultra Transcenders books

NCP-MCI-7.5

Each book explains Nutanix Move in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Virtual machines

  Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.

• Hyper-V

  The hypervisor built into Windows. The VMs for the Azure Extended Network appliance require the Hyper-V role, using nested virtualisation, and an external virtual switch for each NIC.

• ESX

  VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.

• OVER

  Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.

• Nutanix AHV

  The hypervisor from Nutanix. Veeam's integration backs up its VMs to repositories and can restore to it from backups of vSphere, Hyper-V, AHV and other platforms.

Related terms

• Amazon EBS

  Block storage for AWS. Nutanix Move snapshots these volumes and reads them through the EBS direct APIs when it migrates EC2 instances.

• Amazon EC2

  Virtual machines as a service on AWS. With Nutanix Move, these instances can go to NC2 on AWS, to AHV or to ESXi on Nutanix.

• Amazon S3

  Buckets in this Amazon object store receive IPFIX logs from the Security Central VM. Public ones must also be reachable by any AWS-hosted VM being moved with Nutanix Move.

• AWS

  Amazon's public cloud platform, which Nutanix Move can migrate from and NC2 can run on.

• AWS SSM Agent

  Software that allows AWS Systems Manager to control an EC2 instance. For automated guest preparation on AWS source VMs, Nutanix Move depends on it.

• Bandwidth throttling policy

  A cap, set in Prism Central, on the bandwidth consumed by creating images from a URL or moving them between clusters. Nutanix Move throttles separately, with a setting for each source provider.

• BitLocker

  Encrypts entire Windows volumes. Nutanix Move neither detects it on source VMs nor carries vTPM data across, so plan a separate route to the keys; on AHV it can rely on a vTPM if Secure Boot is on.

• Changed Block Tracking

  ESXi migrations with Nutanix Move depend on this on the source VMs, which must be at hardware version 7 or above. The VMware capability records which blocks have altered since the previous copy.