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Blog 20180501 Quick reinstallation of Nutanix Xtract

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Howto quickly reinstall Nutanix Xtract tool (nowadays called Move) Nutanix Xtract is a migration tool that makes life easier when one wants to migrate VMs or databases from a VMware environment to the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor.  The tool is quite handy, intuitive in use and getting more mature each release (current latest is 1.1.4), though it does sometimes get broken (e.g. during an upgrade). In case this happens , the procedure below might help you out repairing it and is also an alternative installation method for a new version of the tool (besides the official upgrade method): Method [Note: Marked text , is the active input / action.] a.      Get the Nutanix Xtract install files b.      Copy the rpm file from the Nutanix Xtract install files with (e.g.) WinSCP to the /tmp of the Xtract VM (appliance).    c.      Make an SSH connection to the Xtract VM and ente