Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Bring Your Own Image (BYOI)

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

The BYOI feature provides these benefits:

  • Enables cloud migration projects.

  • Supports both old and new OSs.

  • Encourages experimentation.

  • Increases 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 Private Cloud Appliance using the custom image import feature, and then create compute instances using those images.

For a list of Oracle-tested OSs for Private Cloud Appliance, see Guest Operating System Matrix.

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.

For information about creating instances, see Working with Instances.