You must have an Enterprise Agreement license with Software Assurance Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (Office 365 ProPlus) You must have License Mobility through Software Assurance. Shared hosts must use platform images that include the Microsoft license. BYOL is not eligible for Microsoft Windows Server using platform images or when importing your own Microsoft Windows Server image. Virtual Machines (Multi-Tenant Shared Host)īYOL on a bare metal dedicated host is only eligible when using a KVM hypervisor. To Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see Moving Microsoft Licenses to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Microsoft License Mobility.īare Metal Machines and Dedicated Virtual Machine Hosts For steps to move your Microsoft licenses
You may move Microsoft licenses from on-premises or another Authorized Mobility Partner only after more than 90 days have passed since the last license move.įor more information about this Microsoft benefit, see License Mobility Windows Server operating systems are not eligible. An example of an application eligible for License Mobility through Software Assurance is Microsoft SQL. With License Mobility through Software Assurance, you can deploy eligible application servers on bare metal hosts or virtual shared hardware in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle is an Authorized Mobility Partner for License Mobility. License Mobility through Software Assurance is a Microsoft benefit that permits you to move your eligible Microsoft licenses to cloud services providers such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Windows boot volume backups cannot be copied across regions. Boot volume backup capabilities are the same as block volume backup capabilities and are in-region only. Back up a boot volume: Makes a backup of a boot volume.You can restore a backup to a new volume either immediately after a backup or at a later time that you choose. Back up a block volume: Makes a point-in-time backup of data on a block volume.A boot volume clone is a point-in-time direct disk-to-disk deep copy of the source boot volume, so all the data that is in the source boot volume when the clone is created is copied to the boot volume clone.
Clone a boot volume: Makes a copy of an existing boot volume without needing to go through the backup and restore process.Instances that you launch from your image include the customizations, configuration, and software installed when you created the image. Create a custom image: Creates a custom image that you can use to launch other instances.Yes, there are several options available on both bare metal and virtual machines: