This page shows the differences between Google Cloud Migration Center and StratoZone, and explains the scenarios in which you might want to use one or the other.
Overview
Migration Center is Google's first-party tool to perform discovery and assessment of customers' workloads. Migration Center offers the main capabilities of StratoZone, such as:
- Discovery and assessment of virtual machine (VM) instances and databases
- Financial Comparison report
- Grouping
- TCO reports, including comparative reports for up to 4 preference sets simultaneously
- Detailed pricing report with clear future state per asset
- Inventory and performance data exports
Migration Center uses a recommendation engine that is aligned with Google Cloud performance and recommendation rules, and updated online from Google price book.
Start your migration journey from Migration Center, then access StratoZone to perform specific activities that are not supported in Migration Center.
Estimate
To estimate the cost of moving your infrastructure to the Google Cloud without performing a full inventory discovery or uploading detailed inventory files, use the Migration Center estimate cost feature. You can provide high-level, aggregated size of your infrastructure, and get a high-level estimate of the cost to run those assets on Google Cloud.
Learn more about Migration Center cost estimation.
Discover and assess
Perform the discovery or upload of your inventory files in Migration Center. After the inventory is available in Migration Center, choose one of the following paths:
If the environment you analyze and the reports that you need are supported by Migration Center, as described in the following tables, then continue using Migration Center to organize, assess, and get reports.
If you need any feature that is not supported by Migration Center, enable the StratoZone integration and continue your asset analysis, assessment, and reporting in StratoZone. If you return to Migration Center at a later stage, any groups and reports that you create in StratoZone are not transferred back to Migration Center.
Supported target platforms for discovery, assessment and reporting
| Source asset type | Target Google Cloud product | Migration Center support | StratoZone support |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-premises virtual machines | Compute Engine VMware Engine |
Yes | Yes |
| On-premises physical servers | Compute Engine VMware Engine |
Yes | Yes |
| AWS/Azure virtual machines | Compute Engine VMware Engine |
Yes | Yes |
| Databases | Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Oracle BMS | No* | Yes |
| * To perform a database assessment, you need to collect the asset data with the discovery client and view the collected data in StratoZone. | |||
Supported reports
As part of the transition from StratoZone to Migration Center, users who create their StratoZone accounts through Migration Center on or after March 18, 2024, are redirected to Migration Center to generate the following reports:
- Assessment summary and proposal (TCO) report
- Detailed pricing report
- Inventory report
- Performance report
After March 18, 2024, these reports will no longer be available in StratoZone for such accounts. Other reports are still available in StratoZone, as we continue to add capabilities to Migration Center.
| Report type | Migration Center support | StratoZone support | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generate a TCO assessment summary | Yes | Available with the Assessment summary and proposal | |
| Financial Comparison report | Yes (part of TCO report) |
Limited to different vendor catalogs for Assessment summary and proposal | |
| Detailed pricing reports | Yes | Yes | |
| Inventory reports | Yes | Yes | |
| Performance reports | Yes | Yes | |
| Other StratoZone reports | Not yet* | Yes | |
| * Other reports available in StratoZone might be added in future releases of Migration Center. | |||
Plan and migrate
For planning and migration, use Migration Center as your starting point. It will guide you with Google Cloud best practices, insights and tooling to ensure that your migration is successful.
- Learn more about planning.
- Learn more about migration execution.
What's next
- Learn how to create a Google Cloud project.