Ten Reasons Why You Should Plan Your VMware to Nutanix Migration Using Ascend to Enhance Nutanix Move:
- Amplified Inventory and Risk Analysis
While Nutanix Move provides strong migration capabilities, integrating Ascend enhances the process with detailed virtual machine inventory analysis and pre-migration risk assessments. Together, these tools help identify unused VMs, mitigate risks, and create a more informed migration strategy. - Streamlined Wave Planning for Efficient Migration
Nutanix Move efficiently migrates workloads and Ascend complements this by automating wave planning. By organizing VMs by application, business unit, or other criteria, the two solutions work together to ensure smoother execution across migration phases. - Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement
Ascend adds an extra layer of stakeholder communication through automated updates and real-time progress tracking. When paired with Nutanix Move, this ensures both technical and business teams remain aligned, facilitating faster decision-making and more efficient execution. - Comprehensive End-to-End Orchestration
Nutanix Move is a powerful migration engine. Ascend expands on this by integrating with Ticketing Systems, Asset Management Platforms, Configuration Management Platforms, and other systems. This creates a fully orchestrated migration process, reducing manual interventions and ensuring all systems work in harmony. - Proactive Risk Mitigation and Compliance
While Nutanix Move ensures secure and reliable migrations, Ascend adds intelligent analytics to identify risks and provide compliance-ready documentation. Together, they offer a migration process that is both operationally secure and compliant with organizational policies. - Robust Executive-Level Insights
Combining Nutanix Move with Ascend provides leadership with a wealth of actionable insights. Nutanix Move ensures migrations proceed seamlessly, while Ascend delivers executive reporting on timelines, costs, and risks, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. - Automation Beyond Migration
Nutanix Move focuses on migrating workloads and Ascend takes it a step further by automating ancillary processes like hardware refreshes. Together, they deliver end-to-end automation that saves time and resources, maximizing value for organizations. - Enhanced Data Accuracy with Lifecycle Scoring
Nutanix Move efficiently handles the technical migration. Ascend ensures the data being migrated is accurate and complete. Its data quality scoring highlights gaps or inconsistencies, resulting in a migration that is both smooth and precise. - Adaptability to Migration Complexities
Nutanix Move excels at handling the migration itself, while Ascend brings additional flexibility to adapt plans based on network capacity, project timelines, and organizational needs. Together, they ensure that even the most complex migrations are completed on time and within scope. - Strategic Visibility for Future Optimization
Nutanix Move lays the groundwork for a successful migration and Ascend extends this success by providing a holistic view of VMware and Nutanix environments. This combination enables organizations to optimize operations long after the migration is complete.
Better Together: Nutanix Move and Ascend
By leveraging Nutanix Move’s proven migration capabilities alongside Ascend’s planning, orchestration, and automation features, organizations gain a powerful solution that addresses every aspect of the VMware-to-Nutanix migration process. Together, they reduce risks, accelerate timelines, and ensure a seamless transition, turning what could be a challenging project into a strategic success.
With Ascend and Nutanix Move working hand-in-hand, your migration journey becomes an opportunity to unlock efficiency, transparency, and long-term value. Why choose one when the two together offer the best of both worlds?
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