Leave Legacy Behind:
Migrate from VMware to Nutanix
Escape rising costs, rigid licensing, and an uncertain roadmap. Nutanix offers VMware customers a seamless path to modernize infrastructure—on their terms. Migrate applications and data without refactoring, manage licensing costs, and simplify operations with a modern platform.
Resources
Here are a selection of resources to help you better understand the options available to you as you plan your VMware to Nutanix migration.
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Take a Test Drive
Considering a move from VMware to Nutanix? Take a Test Drive to discover how Nutanix can simplify and de-risk your migration. See firsthand how your workloads run on our platform and plan your move with less complexity and more confidence.
Broadcom to Nutanix Migration Offer
Migrate to Nutanix with 1 year of free licensing and incentives. Take advantage of this limited-time promotion.
Looking for Other Options?
Not ready to fully migrate? Run new workloads on Nutanix alongside VMware, or move to Nutanix and extend to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or OVHcloud—modernizing at your pace without lock-in.
Not Looking to Transition?
If migrating from VMware is not the right solution for you, we can help you diversify your environment, or migrate to the cloud, assisting you every step of the way.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
AHV is a comparable alternative to VMware ESX in supporting enterprise-grade features, including:
- VM high availability
- Fast VM cross-cluster migrations
- VM dynamic scheduling and placement
- Built-in comprehensive security
- Software-defined networking with microsegmentation
- BCDR with synchronous and asynchronous replication
AHV is NOT a stand-alone solution and is the cornerstone of our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure platform.
Read 5 Reasons Why AHV is Your Best Virtualization Alternative
Nutanix offers a variety of licensing options to meet diverse needs. To learn more, visit the Nutanix Cloud Software Options page.
For a detailed comparison, download and view page 9 of the VMware to Nutanix Migration Guide.
Nutanix offers a streamlined, cost-effective alternative to VMware that’s designed with simplicity, flexibility, and scalability in mind:
- Unified hybrid multicloud: Nutanix delivers a single platform to run and manage VMs, containers, databases, and AI across datacenter, public cloud, and edge—with portable licenses and consistent operations everywhere.
- Freedom to scale your way: Avoid rigid bundles and forced upgrades. Nutanix supports flexible scaling across environments, with a modular approach and world-class support available to all customers.
- Modern, AI-ready platform: Run traditional apps and next-gen workloads—like Kubernetes® and AI—on your terms. Nutanix offers broad hypervisor support and a consistent control plane across all infrastructure.
- A partner you can trust: While others shift models and raise prices, Nutanix offers stability, transparency, and proven support—backed by a 90+ NPS and a customer-first mindset.
Nutanix is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Nutanix offers the best hybrid multicloud experience with one unified platform across datacenters, clouds, and edge. We simplify operations with multicloud IaaS that maintains a consistent operating model across environments. With migration toolkits and over a decade of industry-leading support backed by a 90+ Net Promoter Score, Nutanix offers proven customer satisfaction.
Nutanix Cloud Platform is built for mixed workloads—including containers, AI workloads, and business-critical applications. It offers fast, secure upgrades, built-in encryption, and enterprise-grade disaster recovery to minimize downtime. With easy license portability across on-prem and cloud, a quick path to the public cloud, and unified file, object, and block storage, it simplifies operations while giving you the flexibility to run apps anywhere.
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