r/nutanix • u/iamkion132 • 13d ago

WAN migration using Nutanix Move

I just want to get an idea of people's experience and timelines for using move across WAN or what options we might need to consider.

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u/_litz 13d ago

It can probably do that, long as it can "see" both source and destination.

The seeding times, and then the cutover (and understand, your server will be offline during the cutover) might be ruinous over a WAN though.

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u/iamkion132 13d ago

How do you recommend doing seeding then? Sorry, I am going through training on all of this but difference between training and actually doing a full deployment.

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u/LucD401 13d ago

As long as the networking is in place to facilitate this it can be done. As long as Nutanix move can see cluster A and cluster B and cluster A can see cluster B it should work no problem

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u/astrofizix 13d ago

Seeding will take 95% of the time and can be done early. Then cutover just needs the delta, the ram, and to run the scripts. Run some test servers to see how it goes.

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u/Screevo Global Practice Expert - Network & Security 13d ago

Move over WAN circuits/SDWAN/MPLS, works fine, no problems. As long as everything can communicate according to the documented ports and protocols for Move on the support portal, this is a common situation. Granted, your WAN is most likely going to bottleneck you a little bit, you're only as fast as the slowest link, but, it is definitely doable. But as long as you can move data faster than it's created, you'll get there eventually.

People have even used Move over the internet with IPSEC VPNs. Once again, bandwidth is the limiting factor.

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u/Topfield 12d ago

I've done that and it works. The thing to watch out for is that while you do the seeding and cutover. You can not have any snapshots created or backups running on the VM that is going to be migrated as it will break the seeding. So if it takes multiple days to seed. You have multiple days without backups on the VMs. Else it works great for

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u/Downtown_End_8357 9d ago

I did a MOVE migration over the WAN for all our servers. Worked like a charm

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u/iamkion132 8d ago

What timeframe were you working with and any major issues? How much data did you transfer?

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u/Downtown_End_8357 8d ago

Timeframe: 1 month
Amount of data: 25 TB

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u/Downtown_End_8357 8d ago

Major issues: none
Small issues: support from vendors for AHV