A common strategy to migrate applications to the cloud is to rehost. Rehosting avoids significant architectural changes by moving resources as-is. Rehosting a virtual machine means recreating a virtual machine on the target platform using the same virtual disks as the source platform. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a second-generation cloud platform that provides various compute options, giving it the ability to support nearly any workload. When it comes to rehosting existing virtual machines, not all OCI compute options can be used in every situation. …
This past summer, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute team released a feature called Image Capability Schema, an advanced feature to set launch options for instances created from custom images consistently. Configuration options include launch mode, network attachment type, consistent block volumes naming, and in-transit encryption. In addition to consistently setting launch options, configuring image capabilities can come in handy when moving existing virtual machines to OCI.
One way to run existing virtual machines on OCI is by Bringing Your Own Image (BYOI). The BYOI process involves uploading a bootable virtual disk to object storage and importing it as a…
Lawrence Gabriel
Solution Architect, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
