This how-to guide walks you through the high level, end-to-end deployment steps to set up Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine (formerly Velostrata) and migrate your VMs to Google Cloud.
About Migrate for Compute Engine
Migrate for Compute Engine gets enterprise applications running in Google Cloud within minutes, while data migrates transparently in the background. With Migrate for Compute Engine, enterprises can validate, run, and migrate applications into Google Cloud without rewriting them, modifying the image, or changing management processes.
For more information on the Migrate for Compute Engine solution architecture, capabilities, and terminology, see the Google Cloud reference architecture.
Review requirements for migration
Review the requirements for migrations from your source platform.
Set up a migration environment
Before you migrate, you set up a migration environment that includes network configuration, a migration manager to coordinate migration, configuration about your source platform, and Cloud Extensions as a destination-side conduit for storage data.
Configure network and access
Before you can begin deploying Migrate for Compute Engine components, configure networking and service accounts to allow communication between Migrate for Compute Engine components and your source platform.
Set up the Migrate for Compute Engine Manager
Deploy the Migrate for Compute Engine Manager to provide a way for you to select the VMs you want to migrate, select migration operations, and manage migrations.
Configure your source platform as a source for migration
Prepare VMware vSphere as a source
To migrate VMs from an on-premises environment to Google Cloud, you need to prepare vSphere as a source for migrating VMs.
Preparing AWS as source
To migrate VMs from AWS, you need to first prepare your AWS environment and connect it to Google Cloud.
Preparing Azure as source
To migrate VMs from Azure, you need to first prepare your Azure environment and connect it to Google Cloud.
Set up a Cloud Extension
Install one or more Cloud Extensions in Google Cloud. These act as a conduit for VM storage between the migration source and destination.
Migrate your first VM
After the Migrate for Compute Engine Manager and Cloud Extension are configured and operational, you're ready to start migrating VMs to Compute Engine.
Instructions for some of the most common operations can be found in the following links:
Planning VM migrations concepts.
Performing migrations
- To migrate from vSphere, read the Migrating to Google Cloud overview
- To migrate from AWS, read the Migrating from AWS overview.
- To migrate from Azure, read the Migrating from Azure overview.
Getting help
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