Options for migrating a VM image to Yandex Cloud

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You need to migrate a virtual machine from another infrastructure provider or a local hypervisor and then run it in Yandex Cloud.

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You can migrate your VM, but first you need to create an image from its boot disk by following this guide or using a third-party Hystax Acura solution.

The choice depends on how your VM is hosted on the hypervisor and what level of access to its contents you have:

• If the VM runs under a third-party cloud provider, the easiest migration option is to use Hystax Acura.
• If your virtual machine resides on a physical hypervisor within a corporate network, the easiest way to migrate it is to create a VM disk image, export the image from the hypervisor environment, convert it to QCOW2 (preferred) or VMDK format, and then upload it to Object Storage.