Central platform for cloud migration planning with automatic inventory and TCO analysis.
What is Migration Center?
Migration Center is Google’s central platform for planning and executing cloud migrations. The service provides a complete overview of existing infrastructure, analyzes application dependencies, and creates informed migration recommendations. Whether from on-premises, AWS, or Azure, Migration Center evaluates every workload and suggests the optimal Google Cloud service.
Automatic inventory captures servers, VMs, databases, and applications with agents or agentless scans. Hardware configurations, software versions, network connections, and historical resource utilization are documented. Dependency mapping visualizes relationships between systems and identifies migration groups.
TCO analysis compares costs of existing infrastructure with various Google Cloud configurations. Reports show savings potential and help prioritize migration waves. Migration Center is free to use and requires no upfront licensing.
Core Features
- Automatic Inventory: Agent-based and agentless discovery of servers, VMs, and applications
- Dependency Mapping: Visualization of dependencies between systems for migration group planning
- TCO Analysis: Cost comparison between existing infrastructure and Google Cloud configurations
- Migration Recommendations: Automatic mapping of workloads to suitable Google Cloud services
Typical Use Cases
Migration from On-Premises to Google Cloud
Organizations use Migration Center to inventory their entire on-premises infrastructure and create a data-driven migration plan. TCO analysis shows savings potential and dependency analysis identifies optimal migration sequences.
Multi-Cloud Consolidation
Organizations with workloads across multiple clouds use Migration Center to identify consolidation opportunities and optimize total costs by centralizing on Google Cloud.
Benefits
- Free to use without upfront licensing
- Automatic inventory significantly reduces manual effort
- Data-driven migration recommendations instead of gut decisions
- Support for on-premises and multi-cloud migrations
Integration with innFactory
As a Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you with Migration Center: migration planning, assessment execution, migration wave prioritization, and implementation of recommended cloud architectures.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Migration Center?
Migration Center is Google's central platform for planning cloud migrations. The service inventories existing infrastructure, analyzes dependencies, calculates TCO comparisons, and recommends suitable Google Cloud services for each workload.
How does automatic inventory work?
Migration Center uses agents and agentless scans to capture on-premises servers, VMs, and applications. Hardware configurations, software versions, network connections, and resource utilization are automatically documented.
Can I plan migrations from other clouds?
Yes, Migration Center supports migrations from on-premises, AWS, Azure, and other cloud providers. The service can scan existing cloud infrastructure and suggest optimal Google Cloud equivalents.
