OpenText Migrate (Carbonite Migrate / Double-Take Move)
OpenText (Carbonite)
Paid
Near-zero - continuous sync, minutes to cut over
Agent
Enterprise estates
Workload P2V V2V V2C P2C C2V C2C
What it is good at
Continuous byte-level replication at the OS layer, so the source stays fully online right up to a cutover measured in minutes. Hardware- and hypervisor-independent.
Where it falls down
Agent on every source, and per-workload cost adds up on big estates.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Live migration (no guest downtime)
- Wave / batch orchestration
- Non-disruptive test migration
- Rollback / failback after cutover
- Encryption in flight
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Per-workload licence, perpetual or term
- Licence model
- Licensed per migrated workload (source server). Perpetual and subscription options; often sold in 10/25-workload bundles.
- How to license it
- Purchase per-workload licences from OpenText or a partner; activate the console with the supplied serial. Cloud marketplace listings exist for AWS and Azure.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.opentext.com/products/carbonite-migrate
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)
- Google Cloud (Compute Engine)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)
- Google Cloud (Compute Engine)
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)