OpenStack Glance image import / Cinder migration
OpenInfra Foundation
Open source
Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Agentless
Large estates
Workload V2V P2V C2V
What it is good at
Upload a converted QCOW2/RAW as a Glance image and boot it - fully scriptable and the standard landing path for private cloud.
Where it falls down
You supply the conversion (virt-v2v/qemu-img) and the orchestration.
Capabilities
- API / CLI automation
- Wave / batch orchestration
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Open source — Free and open source; paid support optional.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost; distro support is paid
- Licence model
- Apache 2.0. Commercial distributions (Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, Canonical, Mirantis) are subscription-based per node or per core.
- How to license it
- Upstream OpenStack is free. For supported builds, buy a per-socket/per-core subscription from Red Hat, Canonical or Mirantis.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://docs.openstack.org/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Any platform
Supported targets
- OpenStack (Nova / KVM)