You are now viewing Migrate for Compute Engine v 4.11. As of version 5.0, Migrate for Compute Engine has been renamed to Migrate to Virtual Machines. See the 5.0 documentation for the most updated version.

As of December 2022, support ends for migrating VMs from VMware vSphere to Google Cloud using Migrate for Compute Engine v 4.11.

Setting migration bandwidth throttling

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

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)
    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.