Nutanix Move: Version 6.0 is now Generally Available
The Nutanix Move Application Migration tool has now been available for eight years and continues to grow in strength and popularity for workload migrations. Move handled over 68,000 migrations in the three months May through July 2025, a 70% increase over the same period in 2024.
Move continues to impress IT teams with its simplicity, easy deployment and intuitive workflows that help them effortlessly and painlessly migrate to the Nutanix Cloud Platform and the AHV hypervisor. It has also moved petabytes of unstructured data from legacy NAS (Network Attached Storage) platforms with its file (SMB/NFS) migration features. Move can also migrate VMs and data to the Nutanix Cloud Clusters solution on AWS and Azure, making it a fully functional multicloud mobility tool. Best of all, Move is free for all Nutanix customers to use.
Nutanix Move: A long pedigree of successful migrations
The new Nutanix Move 6.0 release now includes capabilities that ease the process of migrating complex virtual networking rules and configurations from VCF environments using NSX Security (DFW rules) to NCP environments using the Nutanix Flow Network Security solution. Previously, although some of this migration activity could be automated using APIs and advanced scripting skills, it could still often result in a lot of manual work, sometimes involving complex spreadsheets to track networking information.
Nutanix Move: Screenshots of Move 6.0 featuring advanced networking capabilities.
The new capabilities in Move 6.0 provide IT admins and migration specialists with a streamlined workflow to easily capture networking configuration information from source environments, map it to the target environments and ensure that information is kept up to date at cut over. With this new functionality, Nutanix Move 6.0 provides a simple way to migrate from VCF environments using NSX Security to NCP, helping allay concerns about business risk aound migrations.
Nutanix Move: Key migration capabilities
Nutanix Move 6.0 is generally available for download from the Nutanix portal or for simplified deployment via the Prism Marketplace.
Learn more about customer experiences using the Nutanix Move Application Migration tool:
Al Dahra - “...with Nutanix Move, which was offered at no added cost, migrating all our applications was practically effortless.”
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.”
Los Altos High School District - “...we then used Nutanix Move to migrate from our VMware servers to Nutanix, and the process was fairly simple. For the most part, all of our low-impact servers were migrated within hours.”
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.
Computershare move 24000 VMs to Nutanix:
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/
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