Supported operating systems

Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine (formerly Velostrata) supports migrating VMs running operating systems in the following table.

Before migrating Linux VMs to Google Cloud, you need to install an additional package that performs reconfigurations. For more information, see preparing Linux VMs.

Note that some VM OSes are supported for offline migration only. In offline migration, disk volumes are copied directly to Google Cloud and streaming data is not supported. For more information, see Using offline migration.

Note: For Windows preparation scripts to run successfully, you should allow PowerShell scripting in the machine's Group Policy Object configuration.

OS	Version	VMware (BIOS)	VMware (EFI)	VMware (EFI with Secure Boot)	AWS	Azure (BIOS) Gen1/2	Azure (EFI) Gen2	Comments
AWS Linux	Amazon Linux	NA	NA	NA	Yes	NA	NA	Offline migration only. See Preparing Linux VMs for more. Amazon Linux VMs are migrated on a best-effort basis with no post-migration Google Cloud support.
CentOS	6.4+	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Requires kernel version 2.6.32-754 or higher before migrating. Requires dhclient-4.1.1-63.P1.0.1.el6_10 or higher.
	7.X	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
	8.0	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	No	No
Debian	8.5+	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
	9	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Oracle Linux	6.4-6.10	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Requires kernel version 2.6.32-754 or higher before migrating. Requires dhclient-4.1.1-63.P1.0.1.el6_10 or higher.
	7.0-7.9	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	No	No	No
	8.0-8.3	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	No	No	No
RHEL	6.4+	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Requires kernel version 2.6.32-754 or higher before migrating. Requires dhclient-4.1.1-63.P1.0.1.el6_10 or higher.
	7.X	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
	8.0	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
SUSE	11 SP3+	Yes	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	12 SP2	Yes	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	12 SP3	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
	12 SP4	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*	For Azure - Due to missing dependencies in the your-kernel-version-azure build of the kernel, an update to your-kernel-version-default is required prior to migration
	12 SP5	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*	For Azure - Due to missing dependencies in the your-kernel-version-azure build of the kernel, an update to your-kernel-version-default is required prior to migration
	15	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	No	Yes^*
Ubuntu	12.04	Yes	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Offline migration only
	14.04.x LTS	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Requires kernel version 3.13.0-170 or higher for online migration
	16.04.x LTS	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
	18.04.x LTS	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
Windows Server^**	2003 SP2	Yes	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Offline migration only
	2003 R2	Yes	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Offline migration only
	2008 R1 (64-bit)	Yes	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Offline migration only
	2008 R2 (SP1 or higher)	Yes	Yes^*	NA	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
	2012/2012 R2	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*	2012 (non-R2) is not supported by the Google VSS agent (see Google guest environment documentation).
	2016	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
	2019	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*	Yes	Yes	Yes^*
^* Online migration only (offline migration not supported).
^** Basic disks only (dynamic disks not supported).

Remove filter drivers and firewalls from Windows VMs

Run-in-cloud and migration operations may fail for Windows Server 2016 workload when Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) is installed. This may also happen when SEP appears to be disabled.

You should remove filter drivers and firewalls from your Windows VMs before beginning your Migrate for Compute Engine migration steps.

Workaround: If removing or disabling SEP does not resolve your issue, you may need to remove SEP from interface bindings as well. To remove your workload's network interface bindings to remove the SEP option:

1. Download Microsoft Network VSP Bind (nvspbind).

2. Install Microsoft_Nvspbind_package.EXE into c:\temp.

3. Open a command prompt as an Administrator and run the following:

   nvspbind.exe /d * symc_teefer2