1. Proposed title of this feature request

Support and Document Migration of Nutanix-Deployed OCP Clusters Between Prism Central Instances

2. What is the nature and description of the request?

Currently, OpenShift clusters deployed on Nutanix environments are tightly integrated with a specific Prism Central instance during installation.

When an attempt is made to deregister the cluster from the existing Prism Central and re-register it to a new Prism Central, the OpenShift cluster becomes unstable — all machines transition to a failed state, oc get nodes shows no nodes, and workloads or pods become unavailable.

This request proposes that Red Hat engineering:

• Validate and support the use case of re-registering an existing OpenShift on Nutanix cluster to a different Prism Central.
• Provide a tested and documented procedure to safely perform this change.
• Ensure the process involves minimal or zero outage, preserving cluster integrity and workloads.
• Clearly define any limitations or prerequisites for performing the operation.

3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

Customers require this functionality to maintain operational flexibility and support standard infrastructure lifecycle management without being forced to rebuild critical application platforms.

Key business drivers include:

• Infrastructure Consolidation: Customers may be decommissioning an old Prism Central instance and consolidating multiple Nutanix environments under a new, single PC.
• Data Center Migration: As part of a broader data center move or hardware refresh, a new Prism Central instance may be deployed at the target site.
• Organizational Restructuring: Mergers or internal restructuring may require infrastructure resources (and their OCP clusters) to be moved from one management domain (PC) to another.
• Disaster Recovery (DR): In a DR scenario where the primary PC is lost, customers need a supported path to re-register and recover management of their OCP clusters on a new PC instance.

Without this capability, the OCP cluster is permanently tied to the Prism Central instance it was deployed against, creating significant operational lock-in and forcing a full OCP cluster rebuild (a high-outage, high-effort event) for routine infrastructure maintenance.

4. List any affected packages or components.
Cluster API Provider for Nutanix