A migration control apparatus includes one or more processors configured to successively select, as a first group, a virtual machine in an ascending order of power consumption from among a first plurality of virtual machines, until total power consumption of one or more non-selected virtual machines in the first plurality of virtual machines falls below a threshold, successively select, as a second group, another virtual machine in a descending order of power consumption from among the first plurality of virtual machines, until total power consumption of one or more other non-selected virtual machines in the first plurality of virtual machines falls below the threshold, select a specific group in accordance with a first number of virtual machines included in the first group and a second number of virtual machines included in the second group, and perform migration for at least one virtual machine included in the specific group.