Migrate Windows 2008 R2 from vSphere to Nutanix Acropolis

For migration from VMware vSphere to Nutanix AHV, please use Nutanix Move (Free V2V tool, developed by Nutanix)

Today, next part of my migration series – Migrate Windows 2008 R2 from vSphere to Nutanix Acropolis.

So far you could read and watch:

• Migrate Windows 2012R2 from Citrix XenServer to Nutanix AHV
• Migrate RHEL 6.5 from ESXi to Nutanix AHV
• Migrate Suse Linux from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV in minutes
• Migrate Windows 2012R2 server from ESXi to AHV in 5 minutes
• Migrate Linux RHEL 6.5 from XenServer to Nutanix AHV

Pre-requisites:

• Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) in at least  20150921 build
• Nutanix NOS on at least 4.1.5.X, version 4.5.X preferable

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor version

• Nutanix virtIO drivers – you can download it from Nutanix portal
• Nutanix IO drivers installed on Windows 2008 R2
• Mounted AHV container to vSphere
• remove all snapshots from VM

Migration

• Log in to Windows and set up san policy to online. After migration to Acropolis, all disks will become online after boot.
  • run CMD as Administrator and run:
    • diskpart
    • san policy = onlineall
    • exit
• storage vMotion Windows server onto Nutanix Acropolis container
• Shutdown Windows server
• Log in to Prism Element and create new VM
• Add new disk and make sure you choose:
  • TYPE: DISK
  • OPERATION: CLONE FROM ADSF FILE
  • BUS TYPE: SCSI
  • PATH: start with / and move on to container and VM folder to -flat.vmdk

Add disk into Acropolis VM

NOTE: repeat add disk procedure for all VM disks

• add vNIC and connect it to proper vLAN

Post-Migration tasks

• Power VM on
• log in using console
• set up IP address
• remove VMware tools and any other VMware related software

DONE 🙂

Check out video below.