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Webinar – Virtualization revitalized: How Oracle and Cloudbase Solutions empower you to do more for less

Coriolis, DRaaS, OLVM, Oracle, VMwareBy Chris Valean January 15, 2026

Modernizing your infrastructure shouldn’t feel like a leap into the unknown. With the right combination of tools, cloud migration becomes not only manageable but genuinely strategic. That’s exactly what happens when you bring Cloudbase Coriolis together with Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM). Coriolis streamlines and automates the migration and replication of virtual machines across…

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Hassle-free Migration and Disaster Recovery from VMware vSphere to Proxmox VE with Coriolis

Coriolis, DRaaS, OpenStack, Ubuntu, VMware, WindowsBy Nashwan Azhari April 8, 2024

Following Broadcom’s recent acquisition of VMware, the level of uncertainty within the private virtualized infrastructure space has reached an all-time high. With many companies now put on the spot by unexpected increases to platform procurement and upgrade costs, the need for an Open Source and feature-equivalent alternative to VMware has never been greater. In this…

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Coriolis – Migrate VMs from VMware to Azure Stack

Azure, AzureStack, Coriolis, VMwareBy Alessandro Pilotti September 21, 2018

Microsoft Azure Stack brings Azure on-premise and with that comes the opportunity to migrate your workloads from other on-prem cloud and virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere, System Center VMM, Hyper-V or OpenStack. Coriolis provides an agentless migration and DRaaS solution to consolidate all your workloads on an Azure Stack on-premise cluster or on the Azure…

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Migrate VirtualBox VMs to Hyper-V and Azure

Azure, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMware, WindowsBy Alessandro Pilotti March 1, 2017

Both Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation / Fusion use the popular VMDK virtual disk format, optionally as part of an OVA package. Here’s a quick HOWTO on converting VMDK disks to the VHD or VHDX formats for Hyper-V or Azure To begin with, if you have a file with the OVA extension (e.g. exported from VirtualBox), this is just…

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Coriolis v2 – Adding DRaaS to Cloud Migrations

Azure, Coriolis, DRaaS, Hyper-V, OpenStack, VMware, WindowsBy Alessandro Pilotti September 16, 2016

We’re excited to announce that our Coriolis cloud migration project introduced earlier this year just reached a new important milestone. With the addition of new features specifically aimed at business continuity and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Coriolis now offers both one-off migrations as well as constantly up to date replicas of virtual…

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