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Nutanix Move pros and cons

Vendor: Nutanix

4.7 out of 5

8 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Nutanix Move is a stable software offering simple migration with downtime-free hypervisor changes and automated IP/MAC retention. Easy setup marks its initial phase. However, scalability issues limit it to managing only five to ten virtual machines. Users face constraints migrating back to Hyper-V. No cross-platform Nutanix migration exists. Slow support and lack of retry options for failed migrations pose drawbacks.

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PROS

Nutanix Move is valued for its simplicity and ease of use.

It provides stable performance during operations.

Setup is straightforward and user-friendly.

Easy migration is a standout feature, allowing seamless hypervisor changes without downtime.

The automated migration feature effectively automates tasks, retaining IP and MAC addresses and performing cleanups.

CONS

Migration from Acropolis back to Hyper-V is not possible.

Scalability is limited and only allows migrating five to ten VMs at a time.

Support response time can be lengthy, taking three to four days or more.

Lacks a retry option for failed migrations, requiring recreation of migration plans.

Inability to migrate machines from Nutanix to other hypervisors.

Nutanix Move Pros review quotes

Project Engineer at CTC

Aug 23, 2024

The automated migration feature is the most effective. It automates the whole process, like installation from VMware to Nutanix AHV cluster. It retains the IP and MAC addresses of VMs and cleans up migrated VMs by removing VMware tools from the source. The automated migration is seamless - when we do the cutover, Nutanix Move powers off the source VM and automatically powers on the virtual machine on the Nutanix cluster.

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Senior Infrastructure Manager, Information Technology at Pediatrix

Oct 19, 2023

The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is its simplicity.

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Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

May 17, 2024

We can change the hypervisor without any downtime.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

May 13, 2024

The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.

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Vishwambhar Bandal

Assistant Vice President at IndusInd Bank ltd

Nov 9, 2023

The easy migration is the most valuable feature.

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System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 4, 2023

It is easy to set up the solution.

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SK

System Administrator at Confidential

Sep 23, 2022

The solution is stable.

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reviewer1049823

Senior Account Executive - All Things Software Defined at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 27, 2021

The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is how simple it is and the benefit of what it does.

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Nutanix Move Cons review quotes

Project Engineer at CTC

Aug 23, 2024

I think Nutanix Move could be improved by adding a way to retry failed migrations. Sometimes when seeding fails, there's no way to redo it without recreating the whole migration plan. I'd like a button to restart the process without creating a migration plan.

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Senior Infrastructure Manager, Information Technology at Pediatrix

Oct 19, 2023

Nutanix Move could be made more scalable, so you could do more instead of taking five or ten VMs at a time.

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Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

May 17, 2024

We cannot use the solution to move a machine from Nutanix to other hypervisors.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

May 13, 2024

When you have regular questions, like how do I do something in the tool or when you want to know when can I do anything in the product, the solution's support team can take around three to four days to give you an answer, or they may even sometimes take more time.

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Vishwambhar Bandal

Assistant Vice President at IndusInd Bank ltd

Nov 9, 2023

They should have some tools to migrate the workload from another Nutanix platform.

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System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 4, 2023

We'd like Nutanix to be more flexible in the future.

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SK

System Administrator at Confidential

Sep 23, 2022

The most valuable feature is the automation. The solution will clone the data that you want to migrate, shut down the virtual machine, disconnect it from the network and start the clone virtual machine inside the solution's platform.

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reviewer1049823

Senior Account Executive - All Things Software Defined at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 27, 2021

We can migrate from Hyper-V to Acropolis, but we can't move from Acropolis back to Hyper-V. However, we do not have customers who want to, but if we could reassure them that it was possible it would be better. Having our Hyper-V customers have a two-way option that may help. A customer would like to hear that if they do switch they can switch back. I know it's a limitation on Hyper-V but not a limitation on VMware.

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