Moving an Instance

Move a Compute instance to another Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compartment.

1. Navigate to the Compute Instances list page. If you need help finding the list page, see Listing Instances.
2. Select an instance.
3. Select the option you see:
  - From Actions, select More actions then select Move Resource.
  - From More actions select Move Resource.
4. Select the destination compartment from the list.
5. Select Move Resource.
Tip

If alarms are monitoring the instance, update the alarms to reference the new compartment. See Updating an Alarm After Moving a Resource for more information.
Use the instance change-compartment command and required parameters to move an instance to a new compartment:
```
oci compute instance change-compartment --from-json <file://path/to/file.json>
                    
```
<file://path/to/file.json> is the path to a JSON file that defines the instance details. For information about how to generate an example of the JSON file, see Advanced JSON Options.

For a complete list of flags and variable options for the Compute service CLI commands, see the command line reference for Compute.
For information about using the API and signing requests, see REST API documentation and Security Credentials. For information about SDKs, see SDKs and the CLI.

Use this API operation to move an instance to another compartment:
- ChangeInstanceCompartment