Alibaba Cloud Server Migration Center (SMC)
Alibaba Cloud
Free
Warm - seeded online, short cutover window
Agent
Large estates
Workload P2C V2C C2C
What it is good at
The native path into Alibaba Cloud, with incremental sync and image-based cutover.
Where it falls down
Alibaba target only; documentation and support quality varies by region.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Wave / batch orchestration
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Free — No licence cost from the vendor.
- Indicative price
- Free service; pay for target ECS and intermediate resources
- Licence model
- No charge for SMC. You pay for the intermediate instance, disks and the destination ECS.
- How to license it
- Activate SMC in the console, download the migration client, register the source servers. Nothing to purchase.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/smc
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
- Google Cloud (Compute Engine)
Supported targets
- Alibaba Cloud (ECS)