Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Migration Project with Initial Migration Plan

Create a migration project including an initial migration plan and inventory assets.

Before you select the migration wizard option, ensure that inventory is populated with assets from the source environment. The wizard enables you to perform the following tasks:

  • Create a migration project.
  • Configure a replication schedule for the migration project.
  • Create migration assets in the migration project.
  • Create a migration plan.
    1. Open the navigation menu  and select Migration & Disaster Recovery. Under Cloud Migrations, select Migrations.
    2. On the Migrations projects list page, select Create migration project.
    3. Select Create a migration project with initial migration plan, and then select Create migration project.
    4. For the Basic information step, provide the following details and select Next:
      1. For migration information, enter a display name and select a compartment.
      2. Select OLVM Migration Project if you plan to use an Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager asset source for the migration.
      3. Select the replication schedule. You can opt to have no replication schedule, select an existing schedule, or create a new schedule. For more information, see create a replication schedule.
      4. (Optional) Add tags to organize the resource. To apply a defined tag, you must have permissions to use the tag namespace. For more information about tagging, see Resource Tags. If you are not sure whether to apply tags, skip this option (you can apply tags later) or ask your administrator.
    5. For the Assets step, create migration assets and click Next. You can add assets from the OCM inventory. For more information, see create migration assets.
    6. For the Replication location step, in the Default replication location area, select the Availability domain, replication compartment, and replication bucket, and then select Select.

      To change an existing replication location, select the asset and select Edit replication location. To reset, select Reset to default.

    7. Select Next.
    8. For the Initial Migration Plan step, provide the required details and select Next. For more information about creating a migration plan, see Creating a Migration Plan
    9. In the Review and Create step, review the information and select Submit.
    Now you can configure migration asset replication schedule for the migration project, if required.

  • To create a migration project, use the create command.

    oci cloud-migrations migration create --compartment-id target_compartment_ID --display-name migration_name [OPTIONS]
    The required parameters for the create command are:
    • --compartment-id: Specifies the OCID of the compartment name.
    • --display-name: Specifies the name of the migration project.

    To get all the commands for migration, run:

    oci cloud-migrations migration -h

    To get help for the create command, run:

    oci cloud-migrations migration create -h

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • To create a migration project, use the CreateMigration operation.