Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Basic taskflows

The following taskflows guide you on how to get set up with OCI Database Migration Service quickly and easily. Depending on your use case, you may diverge from the path outlined below, in which case you can choose to follow one of the various quickstarts available.

To access Database Migration using the Console:

Table 1-1 Database migration taskflow

Task Description More information
Planning your migration
  • Identify the business requirements: Is downtime on the source database allowed?
  • Identify technical requirements: Source, target, database versions, database size, transfer medium.
  • Ensure that your use case is supported by the OCI Database Migration service.
 Overview
Creating OCI resources
  • Before you can start using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration service and before migrating your databases, you must perform the following preparatory tasks:
  • Create Database Migration policies in your tenancy.
  • Create any dependent objects needed for the migration
 Getting started
Preparing databases

Before you can begin the migration of your data with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration Service, you must configure your source and target databases.

 Prepare
Creating connections Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration database connection resources contain the connectivity details of the migration source and target databases. Create connections
Creating migrations

When you create a migration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration, you specify how the migration should run, select the source and target databases, and then configure the data transport settings.

 Create migrations
Running migrations

When you create a migration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration, you specify how the migration should run, select the source and target databases, and then configure the data transport settings.

Running a migration job
Monitoring migrations

In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration, there are several places in the Console from which you can monitor the status of a migration job to varying degrees.

 Monitoring job status
Completing migrations

On the Migration Details page you can view a list of the jobs a migration resource has performed in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration.

 Preparing for application switchover

Parent topic: Getting started