Workload Migration - Test Plan

DECEMBER 2019
LAST UPDATED: 2022.12
SDK – WORKLOAD MIGRATION
Test Plan
Workload Migration: Test Plan
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Contents
1 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................4
1.1 About Nutanix..........................................................................................................................4
1.1.1 Nutanix Technology Highlights................................................................................................................5
2 NUTANIX SOLUTION..........................................................................................7
2.1 Nutanix Technology Overview................................................................................................7
3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.....................................................................................9
4 INSTALLATION VERIFICATION.....................................................................10
4.1 Nutanix Move Appliance.......................................................................................................10
4.2 VMware Shared-Nothing vMotion.........................................................................................11
4.3 Microsoft Hyper-V Shared-Nothing Live Migration..............................................................12
4.4 Microsoft SCVMM Shared-Nothing Live Migration.............................................................12
4.5 Carbonite Availability............................................................................................................13
4.6 VMware Converter.................................................................................................................13
A. GLOSSARY..........................................................................................................15
B. USE IF NEEDED..................................................................................................16
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1Introduction
1.1 ABOUT NUTANIX
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that
power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform blends web-scale engineering and
consumer-grade design to natively converge server, storage, virtualization, and networking into a
resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. Predictable performance, cloud
consumption models, robust security, and seamless application mobility for all enterprise applications
at any scale. A single software fabric unifies your private and public clouds and delivers one-click
simplicity in managing multi-cloud deployments. One OS, one-click™.
Nutanix provides a leading next-generation enterprise cloud platform that converges traditional silos
of server, virtualization, and storage into one integrated solution and can also connect to public cloud
services. Our software-driven platform delivers the agility, scalability, and pay-as-you-grow
economics of the public cloud while addressing enterprise requirements of application mobility,
security, data integrity, and control. We have recently announced an expansion of our capabilities to
provide our customers with the flexibility to selectively utilize the public cloud for suitable workloads
and specific use cases by enabling seamless application mobility across private and public clouds.
This capability will enable hybrid cloud deployments and addresses a critical requirement for any
next-generation enterprise cloud platform. We have combined advanced web-scale technologies with
elegant consumer-grade design to deliver a powerful enterprise cloud platform that elevates IT
organizations to focus on the applications and services that power their businesses. We refer to our
platform as “invisible infrastructure” because it provides constant availability and low-touch
management, enables application mobility across computing environments, and reduces inefficiencies
in IT planning.
Leading Internet companies and public cloud providers have embraced convergence and distributed
systems and implemented web-scale technologies in their proprietary operating environments. They
took these steps because traditional siloed IT infrastructure architectures failed to deliver the levels of
scalability and operational efficiency that their dynamic businesses required. Today, organizations
across all industries are seeking to leverage IT capabilities as a competitive advantage while also
facing the limitations of traditional siloed IT infrastructure. To address these challenges, we have
pioneered a converged web-scale architecture that can be easily deployed by organizations of any size
to address the limitations of traditional IT infrastructure.
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Our solution is comprised of two comprehensive software product families, Acropolis and Prism, and
is delivered on commodity x86 servers. Acropolis delivers high-performance distributed storage,
application mobility capabilities, which we are continuing to expand, and a built-in hypervisor,
software that allows multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host. Prism delivers
integrated virtualization and infrastructure management, robust operational analytics, and one-click
administration capabilities. Our solutions address a broad range of workloads, including enterprise
applications, databases, virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, unified communications, and big data
analytics. We have end-customers across a broad range of industries, including automotive, consumer
goods, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, public sector, retail,
technology, and telecommunications. We also sell to service providers who utilize our platform to
provide a variety of cloud-based services to their customers.
1.1.1 Nutanix Technology Highlights
The Nutanix Web-Scale converged software solution delivers enterprise-class storage features and
functionality including:
 Self-healing clustered file system with integrated failover and recoverability for five 9s
reliability
 No single points of failure within the platform
 Integration with existing infrastructure requiring no special functionality
 Thin provisioning & Zero-Overhead Snapshots
 Coalesced write log structure
 Direct Attached SSD performance for all workloads with Dynamic auto-data tiering
 Flexible Compression
 Elastic De-Duplication
 Enterprise-grade file system with tier-1 data integrity checking by detecting, capturing, and
repairing any silent corruption.
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2Nutanix Solution
2.1 NUTANIX TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
Nutanix hyper-converged solutions are uniquely built using web-scale technologies and architectures
that originated in large Internet and cloud companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Nutanix offers a wide range of platforms to run any workload. Multiple appliance types can be mixed
in a single cluster, enabling flexible and linear scaling of capacity and performance. Attributes of all
our platforms include:
 Storage and compute resources hyper-converged on x86 servers

 All system intelligence provided in the software
 Data, metadata, and operations fully distributed across an entire cluster of x86 servers
 Self-healing to tolerate and adjust to component failures
 API-based automation and rich analytics
The Nutanix solution combines highly dense storage and server compute (CPU and RAM) into a
single platform building block. Each building block is based on industry-standard Intel
processor/server technology and delivers a unified, scale-out, shared-nothing architecture with no
single points of failure. The Nutanix platform does not rely on traditional SAN/NAS storage or
expensive storage network interconnects. Nutanix sets itself apart from competing solutions with its
uncompromising simplicity. This simplicity is demonstrated in the speed of deployment,
manageability, operations, and ease of designing successful solutions for business-critical
applications.
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Overview of the Nutanix Architecture
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3Executive Summary
This document contains the install and operational test plan for the Nutanix migration for the
customer as conducted by Nutanix Services.
Nutanix Move is a complete, easy-to-deploy application mobility solution that is flexible. It provides
the highest quality recovery points, replicates them remotely for safety and delivers zero data loss
failover/failback. It also provides the ability to test disaster recovery (DR) plans easily and frequently,
without locking the customer to a specific Cloud.
Various migration scenarios require different toolsets to complete. This document provides the
functional testing checklists for the following toolsets and their corresponding migration scenarios:
Toolset Migration Source Migration Target
Nutanix Move vSphere Nutanix (AHV hypervisor)

Hyper-V
AWS
Azure
Nutanix Move Azure Nutanix (vSphere hypervisor)
VMware vMotion vSphere Nutanix (vSphere hypervisor)
Microsoft Live Migration Hyper-V Nutanix (Hyper-V hypervisor)
Microsoft SVMM Live Hyper-V with SCVMM Nutanix (Hyper-V hypervisor)

Migration
Carbonite Availability Physical Nutanix (any hypervisor)
VMware Converter Physical Nutanix (vSphere hypervisor)
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4Installation Verification
The following procedures outline the tasks required to ensure that Nutanix Move is installed
according to the Nutanix Install Guide. Successful completion means that you can start the migration
process with Nutanix Move.
The tasks listed in each subsection must be completed before running any virtual workloads.
<CONSULTANT: Remove sections that do not apply to the customer environment/engagement
4.1 NUTANIX MOVE APPLIANCE
Task Verification Task Expected Result Success
1. Open firewall ports Required firewall ports are open ☐

Firewall Port Requirements
2. Log into the Nutanix Move web UI Nutanix Move dashboard displays ☐
3. Connect Nutanix Move to the target Nutanix The Nutanix cluster and its resources ☐
Cluster display in the Target area
4. Connect Nutanix Move to the source The vSphere cluster and its resources ☐
vCenter server display in the Source area
5. Connect Nutanix Move to the target vCenter ☐

server
6. Connect Nutanix Move to AWS The information on available EC2 ☐

instances display in the Source area
7. Connect Nutanix Move to Azure The information on available Virtual ☐

Machines display in the Source area
8. Connect Nutanix Move to the Hyper-V host The Hyper-V host info and its ☐
resources display in the Source area
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4.2 VMWARE SHARED-NOTHING VMOTION
1. Log in to the vCenter server Login is successful and the vCenter ☐

Server inventory is visible
2. Target Nutanix Cluster is visible in vCenter The target cluster is managed by ☐

inventory vCenter and is accessible via the
vCenter web UI
3. Source Cluster is visible in vCenter The source cluster is managed by ☐

inventory vCenter and is accessible via the
vCenter web UI
4. Deploy test VM and perform share-nothing The VM live migrates successfully ☐

vMotion between legacy cluster and Nutanix to the target cluster
4.3 MICROSOFT HYPER-V SHARED-NOTHING LIVE MIGRATION
1. Validate that Live Migrations are Live Migration is configured on both ☐

configured, and pre-requisites have been met the source and destination Hyper-V
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows- environments
server/virtualization/hyper-v/deploy/set-up-
hosts-for-live-migration-without-failover-
clustering
2. Verify the source and target VM hosts are Hyper-V authentication ☐

configured for the same authentication configuration should match
protocol (CredSSP or Kerberos)
3. Live Migration Networks are Configure Both the source and destination ☐
Hyper-V hosts have the correct
network settings configured for Live
Migrations in the Hyper-V
Properties
4. Verify Test Live Migration Create a test VM and perform a ☐

shared-nothing Live Migration
between the source and destination
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Hyper-V hosts. The migration

should complete successfully
4.4 MICROSOFT SCVMM SHARED-NOTHING LIVE MIGRATION
1. Log into SCVMM SCVMM inventory visible ☐

2. Make sure Nutanix cluster is visible in Nutanix Cluster inventory is visible ☐
SCVMM inventory
3. Make sure you can browse VMs inventory VM inventory visible ☐

in the source Hyper-V cluster
4. Deploy test VM and perform share-nothing VM successfully migrated ☐

live migration between legacy cluster and
Nutanix
4.5 CARBONITE AVAILABILITY
1. Carbonite Availability server is installed and Application installed and the ☐

accessible Carbonite Replication console can
be opened
2. Destination Server VM created and installed The VM which will be the target for ☐
the P2V migration has been
provisioned and installed with the
correct operating system
3. Firewall Rules Configured Ports 6320, 6325, and 6326 UDP ☐

and TCP are open between the
carbonite server, source server, and
target server
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4.6 VMWARE CONVERTER
1. Start VMware converter client and connect list of ongoing\completed\failed ☐

to VMware converter server migration jobs (if any)
2. Connect to source vCenter server List of available VMs ☐

3. Connect to target vCenter server List of available vSphere clusters ☐
4. Connect to source Physical server List of available disk resources ☐
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SDK – WORKLOAD MIGRATION

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Document Reference: Workload Migration: Test Plan

Content Last Updated: 2021.09

© Copyright 2021 Nutanix, Inc.

1.1.1 Nutanix Technology Highlights

 Storage and compute resources hyper-converged on x86 servers

Overview of the Nutanix Architecture

Toolset Migration Source Migration Target

Nutanix Move vSphere Nutanix (AHV hypervisor)

Nutanix Move Azure Nutanix (vSphere hypervisor)

VMware vMotion vSphere Nutanix (vSphere hypervisor)

Microsoft Live Migration Hyper-V Nutanix (Hyper-V hypervisor)

Microsoft SVMM Live Hyper-V with SCVMM Nutanix (Hyper-V hypervisor)

Carbonite Availability Physical Nutanix (any hypervisor)

VMware Converter Physical Nutanix (vSphere hypervisor)

<CONSULTANT: Remove sections that do not apply to the customer environment/engagement

4.1 NUTANIX MOVE APPLIANCE

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

1. Open firewall ports Required firewall ports are open ☐

5. Connect Nutanix Move to the target vCenter ☐

6. Connect Nutanix Move to AWS The information on available EC2 ☐

7. Connect Nutanix Move to Azure The information on available Virtual ☐

4.2 VMWARE SHARED-NOTHING VMOTION

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

1. Log in to the vCenter server Login is successful and the vCenter ☐

2. Target Nutanix Cluster is visible in vCenter The target cluster is managed by ☐

3. Source Cluster is visible in vCenter The source cluster is managed by ☐

4. Deploy test VM and perform share-nothing The VM live migrates successfully ☐

4.3 MICROSOFT HYPER-V SHARED-NOTHING LIVE MIGRATION

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

1. Validate that Live Migrations are Live Migration is configured on both ☐

2. Verify the source and target VM hosts are Hyper-V authentication ☐

4. Verify Test Live Migration Create a test VM and perform a ☐

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

Hyper-V hosts. The migration

4.4 MICROSOFT SCVMM SHARED-NOTHING LIVE MIGRATION

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

1. Log into SCVMM SCVMM inventory visible ☐

3. Make sure you can browse VMs inventory VM inventory visible ☐

4. Deploy test VM and perform share-nothing VM successfully migrated ☐

4.5 CARBONITE AVAILABILITY

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

1. Carbonite Availability server is installed and Application installed and the ☐

3. Firewall Rules Configured Ports 6320, 6325, and 6326 UDP ☐

4.6 VMWARE CONVERTER

Task Verification Task Expected Result Success

1. Start VMware converter client and connect list of ongoing\completed\failed ☐

2. Connect to source vCenter server List of available VMs ☐

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