Migrate Windows 2008 R2 from vSphere to Nutanix Acropolis

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

So far you could read and watch:

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

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.

About Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur has been in IT industry since 1999 and consulting since 2008. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).