The Nutanix Move Application Migration tool has been available for seven years and continues to grow in strength and popularity for workload migrations with more than 20,000 VM migrations every quarter.
From its humble beginnings as a simple virtual-to-virtual migration tool to help customers move workloads from VMware three-tier environments onto the Nutanix AHV platform, it's now a fully fledged multicloud VM and file (SMB/NFS) mobility tool that’s simple to deploy and free for all Nutanix customers to use.
Nutanix Move: A pedigree of successful migrations
The new Nutanix Move 5.3 release now includes the ability to migrate VMs from VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) to the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution on AWS. Move has long been able to migrate VMs from on-premises VMware and AWS EC2 environments to Nutanix. The new functionality will have specific workflows and integrations to VMC that accelerate the migration to an NC2-on-AWS solution.
Nutanix Move: Key migration capabilities
NC2 on AWS has been generally available for more than two years and can be acquired via the AWS Marketplace or licensed using your already-purchased Nutanix subscriptions.
What's more, because it utilizes EC2 bare metal instances in your own AWS virtual private cloud (VPC), the solution takes advantage of existing cloud spend commitments for bare-metal and Nutanix licenses and places workloads directly next to native AWS services. This makes it easier to have existing applications take advantage of native AWS services like S3, EKS, RDS, and AI/ML AWS technologies.
Nutanix Move with NC2 offers a faster way to get to the public cloud because it does not require any application refactoring or rearchitecting, which dramatically simplifies the migration process and speed of moving applications to AWS.
With this new functionality, Nutanix Move 5.3 also will be a fast and convenient way to migrate from VMC into your own AWS account/VPC and can allay concerns about business risk prompted by Broadcom’s recent acquisition of VMware.
Nutanix Move 5.3 has already been used to migrate customer workloads to NC2 as part of an early access program. It is now generally available for download from the Nutanix portal or for simplified deployment via the Prism Marketplace.
Nutanix Move: Key features and capabilities
Learn more about customer experiences using the Nutanix Move Application Migration tool:
Cranfield University – The initial migration, at the end of 2019, was both straightforward and rapid, requiring just five days to move 500+ VMs to the new platform, test, and go live.
Halmstad Energi och Miljö – “Nutanix Move functions exceptionally well… this tool truly delivers.”
Coterra – “We used Nutanix Move to synchronize all of that data to our Houston data center. And then that product allowed us to see how long the final sync and the cutover would be, minimizing the downtime and facilitating getting out of that data center.”
For more Information about application migration with Nutanix Move Application Migration visit https://www.nutanix.com/products/move.
For more information about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), visit https://www.nutanix.com/products/nutanix-cloud-clusters.
For information about Nutanix’s VMware Migration Promotion, including VMC migration, visit https://www.nutanix.com/vmware-alternative/vmware-to-nutanix-migration-promotion.* Click here for the Promotion terms and conditions.
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