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How to migrate a Exchange DAG using Nutanix MOVE.

November 4, 2025 at 10:39 am Leave a comment

We recently moved 2 Exchange servers part of a DAG using the Nutanix MOVE. The source environment was VMware ESXi (VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 23794027) and the target environment was AHV 10.3.0.2. I am sharing the steps we followed below to help fellow techs who may come across a similar requirement.

Started the process as below:

• RE-directed all the client and SMTP traffic to another node.
• Put the 1st Exchange node in the maintenance mode.
• Created a Nutanix MOVE job to migrate the Exchange server on the maintenance mode.
• After verifying all the Exchange services are up and running , and the client & SMTP traffic is working fine (including the DAG replication ) , We moved forward with the remaining node with the same steps.

I can confirm that the above approach helped us to migrate our Exchange DAG environment from VMware to Nutanix AHV successfully.

Entry filed under: Exchange and O365, Nutanix.