Oracle Cloud Migrations for VMs

Move workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) on your terms. Keep familiar VMware operations with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution or replatform to native OCI Compute to reduce VMware dependency.

Choose your VMware migration path

Your VMware strategy can include different migration paths. Choose the one that fits your priorities today and where you want to go next.

Path 1: Keep VMware operations with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Move VMware workloads as they are to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with minimal operational change while maintaining familiar VMware tools, skills, and processes.

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Path 2: Replatform to native OCI Compute

Move eligible workloads off VMware and onto the OCI services that best fit them—from OCI Compute for virtual machines to containers and Kubernetes with OCI Kubernetes Engine. Reduce VMware dependency while modernizing at your own pace.


Not sure which path is right for you? Talk with an Oracle expert to assess your VMware environment and determine the right approach.

Why use Oracle Cloud Migrations?

  • Migrate VMs from AWS and VMware environments

    Oracle Cloud Migrations supports migrations from both on-premises VMware estates and AWS EC2 VMs in the cloud to OCI Compute virtual machines.

  • Discover and organize VMs for migration

    Automatically discover virtual machines external to OCI. Organize the virtual machines for migration and replicate their data to OCI Compute.

  • Assess compatibility and plan cost scenarios

    Assess compatibility with OCI Compute shapes and sizes, estimate cost, and explore price and performance for different deployment scenarios.

  • Migrate with end-to-end visibility and control

    Migrate workloads with supported guest operating systems to OCI. Autogenerate execution plans. Deploy and launch OCI resources leveraging OCI Resource Manager.

How Oracle Cloud Migrations works


How Cloud Migrations works diagram, details below
For VMware customers, Oracle Cloud Migrations helps you discover, assess, plan, replicate, and launch workloads on OCI. Your destination can then align with your operating model: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution when preserving VMware operations is the priority or native OCI Compute when reducing VMware dependency is the goal.
The diagram shows five phases: Connect and Discover, Build Inventory, Assess and Plan, Replicate, and finally Launch. Connect and Discover phase. Step 1: Install the Remote Agent Appliance. Step 2: Register with Oracle Cloud Migrations and discover assets whose metadata and metrics are sent to Inventory. Build Inventory phase. Step 3: Annotate and group assets to represent applications or line of business. Step 4: Analyze assets and scope projects. Assess and Plan phase. Step 5: Migrations analyzes metrics, assesses compatibility, recommends shapes, and gives cost estimates. Step 6: You evaluate the recommendations and map remote assets to target OCI resources. Replicate phase. Step 7: Full or incremental snapshots are captured and uploaded from the source environments to OCI Object Storage and then converted to OCI Block Volumes. Launch phase. Step 8: Execution plans are generated as Terraform code. Step 9: Deploy and launch migrated assets leveraging OCI Resource Manager.

More flexibility for your VMware strategy

  • 01Keep what works

    Move VMware workloads to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with minimal operational change while maintaining familiar VMware tools, skills, and processes. Keep control of your environment today while creating room to evolve your cloud strategy over time.

  • 02Reduce VMware dependency

    Replatform eligible VMware workloads to native OCI Compute when you’re ready to move away from VMware licensing. Run workloads on OCI while reducing the licensing requirements associated with maintaining a VMware environment.

  • 03Modernize on your timeline

    Your migration strategy can vary by workload. Choose the approach that fits each workload and your priorities today, with the flexibility to adopt native OCI services over time as your application and business requirements evolve.

Find the right path for your VMware estate

Every VMware environment is different. Talk with an Oracle expert about your workloads, operational priorities, and modernization goals to determine the migration approach that fits your business.

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Build the business case for OCI

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