Does anyone have any experience migrating their virtualization platform from VMware to Nutanix that used Veeam both before and after? Are there any best practices or lessons learned that others can take advantage? As the migration of our vms is likely to take several days/weeks, we’re likely to want/need to use Veeam across both environments. Many thanks for any insight this community can offer.
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Taking advantage of Veeam througout a VMware to Nutanix platform migration
+21As long as you have both environments added to Veeam you can migrate between them. There is no best practices that I am aware of to use it is just backup from VMware and restore to Nutanix. Then start backing up Nutanix.
Here is the Nutanix guide - Overview - Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV User Guide
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+8Yeah, not really Nutanix specific, but I recently migrated some folks from Hyper-V to VMware. Basically, backup the VM from Hyper-V. When ready to migrate, shutdown the VM in Hyper-V and take a final backup of the Hyper-V VM, Instant Recovery to VMware, migrate to production storage and setup a backup job of the server now on VMware. Same process for Migrating from VMware to Nutanix, just substitute the above Hyper-V with VMware, and VMware with Nutanix, and the job type changes from “Instant Recovery” to “Restore to Nutanix”.
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+8Hi there
actually, there is a guide from nutanix
https://www.nutanix.com/how-to/steps-to-migrate-to-nutanix-from-vmware
have a look, and as I always recommend, test it yourself before doing anything in production.
keep in mind that Nutanix uses VirtIO drivers, so they must be installed on the vms before you back them up and restore them in AHV.
cheers.
Luis F.- HunterLF - HunterLAFR - lfconsulting.org
+8Hi there
actually, there is a guide from nutanix
https://www.nutanix.com/how-to/steps-to-migrate-to-nutanix-from-vmware
have a look, and as I always recommend, test it yourself before doing anything in production.
keep in mind that Nutanix uses VirtIO drivers, so they must be installed on the vms before you back them up and restore them in AHV.
cheers.
Well sure...there is the target hypervisor supported tools...just like VMware has the vCenter Standalone Converter….but we’re talking about Veeam solutions here… 😁 LOL...thanks for the input Luis. I need to spend more time testing out Nutanix….
Derek M. Loseke, Senior Systems Engineer | Veeam Vanguard 2025 | Veeam Legend 2022-2024 | VMSP/VMTSP | VCP6-DCV | VSP/VTSP | CCNA | https://technotesanddadjokes.com | @dloseke
+8Hi there
actually, there is a guide from nutanix
https://www.nutanix.com/how-to/steps-to-migrate-to-nutanix-from-vmware
have a look, and as I always recommend, test it yourself before doing anything in production.
keep in mind that Nutanix uses VirtIO drivers, so they must be installed on the vms before you back them up and restore them in AHV.
cheers.
Well sure...there is the target hypervisor supported tools...just like VMware has the vCenter Standalone Converter….but we’re talking about Veeam solutions here… 😁 LOL...thanks for the input Luis. I need to spend more time testing out Nutanix….
I know I know, that’s why I added the VirtIO info as well! 😁 the guide is more for not missing any other moving part! Veeam is magical,
but always double check and test before anything else!
cheers
Luis F.- HunterLF - HunterLAFR - lfconsulting.org
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