Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Bring Your Own Image (BYOI)

On Compute Cloud@Customer, the Bring Your Own Image (BYOI) feature enables you to bring your own versions of OSs to the Compute Cloud@Customer service as long as the underlying hardware supports it.

The BYOI feature provides these benefits:

  • Enables cloud migration projects.

  • Supports both old and new OS's.

  • Encourages experimentation.

  • Increases infrastructure flexibility.

Important

You must comply with all licensing requirements when you upload and start instances based on OS images that you supply.

A critical part of any lift-and-shift cloud migration project is the migration of on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud. You can import your on-premises virtualized root volumes into Compute Cloud@Customer using the custom image import feature, and then create compute instances using those images.

For a list of Oracle-tested OSs for Compute Cloud@Customer, see Guest Operating Systems.

For information about creating custom images, see Managing Custom Images.

For information about importing images, see Importing Custom Linux Images and Importing Custom Microsoft Windows Images.