By John Priest
Publication Date: 2026-05-14 12:00:00
The Oracle Cloud Migrations (OCM) team is pleased to announce support for virtual machine (VM) migrations to Oracle Virtualization. This new general availability feature allows customers to migrate their on-premises VMs from VMware to Oracle Virtualization with live migration capabilities and incremental replication support post-cutover. OCM users can execute on-premises to on-premises VM replications without storing data in the cloud, allowing them to adhere to their data residency requirements.
A Quick Refresher: What is Oracle Cloud Migrations?
The Oracle Cloud Migrations service provides an end-to-end, comprehensive self-service experience for migrating VMware virtual machines and Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute. You can use Oracle Cloud Migrations to identify the workloads of virtual machines hosted in an environment external to OCI, plan migrations, and automate migration workflows. The Oracle Cloud Migrations service enables you to perform the following tasks:
- Automatically discover virtual machines and instances in the source environment
- Organize virtual machines and instances for migration
- Replicate virtual machine and instance data to OCI
- Plan and launch compute instances using replicated data
This Oracle Cloud Migrations service was first launched in 2022 and has been used by many customers to migrate their workloads into OCI.
