Setting migration bandwidth throttling

You can prevent network saturation for storage migration by throttling bandwidth usage.

Note: This setting applies only to the background migration traffic sent by the Migrate for Compute Engine Manager on Google Cloud, and is applied as a site-level total limit across all connected Cloud Extensions.

Using Migrate for Compute Engine Manager

1. Open a Web browser and navigate to the Migrate for Compute Engine Manager IP address.

   

   Screenshot of Migrate for Compute Engine Manager (click to enlarge)

2. Click System Settings.
3. Log in with username apiuser and your password.
4. Click the Backend tab, and select Backend Network Settings.
5. Select the box next to Set storage migration rate limit to.
6. Enter the limit in megabits per second with a maximum value of 10000000.
7. Click Save.