Migrate to Virtual Machines

Fast, flexible, and safe migration of virtual machines to Google Cloud

Features

Frictionless, enterprise-grade migration for any business

Cloud migration creates a lot of questions. Migrate to Virtual Machines by Google Cloud has the answers. Whether you’re looking to migrate one application from on-premises or one thousand enterprise-grade applications across multiple data centers, Migrate to Virtual Machines gives any IT team, large or small, the power to migrate their workloads to Google Cloud.

Fast, efficient migrations

With Migrate to Virtual Machines simple “as a service” interface within Cloud Console and flexible migration options, it’s easy for anyone to reduce the time and toil that typically goes into a migration. Avoid complex deployments, setup, and configurations. Eliminate confusing and troublesome client-side migration tool agents. By using the right migration tool, you can save your migration team’s valuable time for what matters most: migrating workloads. 

Simplicity at scale

Take advantage of Migrate to Virtual Machines speed, scale, and flexibility to accelerate your migration program. Migrate a single app with a few clicks, execute a migration sprint with 100 systems using groups, or use our Cloud API to build your in-house migration factory. With Migrate to Virtual Machines, you are empowered to customize your migration in whatever way that is best for you.

Minimal downtime and risk

Built-in testing makes it fast and easy to validate before you migrate. No client-side software agents means no impact on the resources needed by the workload itself, no need to open access to or from the network where the workload is running, and the ability to complete your migration without the source systems running at all. And periodically replicating data from the source workload to the destination without manual steps or interruptions to the running workload minimizes workload downtime and enables fast cutover to the cloud.

Lower cost, higher staff productivity

Migrate to Virtual Machines as-a-service offering helps reduce migration labor and complexity. By leveraging speed and simplicity, you can eliminate costly on-premises hardware and software licenses. Plus, Migrate to Virtual Machines provides usage-driven analytics to help you rightsize destination instances and avoid cloud over-provisioning.

How It Works

Migration to Virtual Machines is a part of Migration Center, Google Cloud's unified platform that helps you accelerate your end-to-end cloud journey from your current on-premises or cloud environments to Google Cloud. With features like cloud spend estimation, asset discovery of your current environment, and a variety of tooling for different migration scenarios, Migration Center provides you with what you need for your migration.

How to migrate to GCE

Common Uses

Getting familiar with Migrate to Virtual Machines

VM Migration lifecycle

Migrate to Virtual Machines enables you to migrate (Lift and Shift) your virtual machines (VMs), with minor automatic modifications, from your source environment to Google Compute Engine. Migrate to Virtual Machines uses data replication technology which continuously replicates disk data from the source VMs to Google Cloud without causing any downtime on the source. You then create VM clones from replicated data for testing and perform predictable VM cut-over to your final workloads running on Google Cloud.

Learn more

    VM Migration lifecycle

    Migrate to Virtual Machines enables you to migrate (Lift and Shift) your virtual machines (VMs), with minor automatic modifications, from your source environment to Google Compute Engine. Migrate to Virtual Machines uses data replication technology which continuously replicates disk data from the source VMs to Google Cloud without causing any downtime on the source. You then create VM clones from replicated data for testing and perform predictable VM cut-over to your final workloads running on Google Cloud.

    Learn more

      Getting your migration started

      Migrating from various sources

      Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you migrate virtual machine (VM) instances and disks of VMs from different migration sources such as vSphere on-premises data center, AWS cloud computing services, Azure cloud computing services, and Google Cloud VMware Engine to VM instances or Persistent Disk volumes on Google Cloud.

      Read guides

        Migrating from various sources

        Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you migrate virtual machine (VM) instances and disks of VMs from different migration sources such as vSphere on-premises data center, AWS cloud computing services, Azure cloud computing services, and Google Cloud VMware Engine to VM instances or Persistent Disk volumes on Google Cloud.

        Read guides

          Pricing

          Migrate to Virtual MachinesPricing table
          ServicePrice

          Migrate to Virtual Machines

          The Migrate to Virtual Machines 4.x software solution is provided at no charge for migrations into Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud charges for resources such as Compute Engine instances, storage, and networking which are necessary to perform migrations.

          Migrate to Virtual Machines

          Pricing table

          Migrate to Virtual Machines

          Price

          The Migrate to Virtual Machines 4.x software solution is provided at no charge for migrations into Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud charges for resources such as Compute Engine instances, storage, and networking which are necessary to perform migrations.

          Google Cloud pricing calculator

          Add and configure products to get a cost estimate to share with your team.

          Contact sales

          Talk to a Google Cloud migration specialist.

          Learn more about migration with Google Cloud

          Rapid Migration Program (RaMP)

          Data center migration

          Migrating your applications

          Google Cloud VMware Engine

          Google Cloud's migration product portfolio

          Google Cloud
          • ‪English‬
          • ‪Deutsch‬
          • ‪Español‬
          • ‪Español (Latinoamérica)‬
          • ‪Français‬
          • ‪Indonesia‬
          • ‪Italiano‬
          • ‪Português (Brasil)‬
          • ‪简体中文‬
          • ‪繁體中文‬
          • ‪日本語‬
          • ‪한국어‬
          Console
          Google Cloud