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 an overview of existing infrastructure, supports analysis of application dependencies, and creates informed migration recommendations. Whether from on-premises, AWS, or Azure, Migration Center evaluates workloads and suggests suitable Google Cloud services.
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 helps identify migration groups.
TCO analysis compares costs of existing infrastructure with various Google Cloud configurations. Reports show savings potential and help prioritize migration waves. The platform 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: 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 on-premises infrastructure and create a data-driven migration plan. TCO analysis shows savings potential, and dependency analysis helps prioritize migration sequence.
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 certified 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, supports dependency analysis, creates TCO comparisons, and recommends suitable Google Cloud services for workloads.
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 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 capture existing cloud infrastructure and suggest suitable Google Cloud equivalents.
What does Migration Center cost?
Migration Center itself is free to use; there are no additional license fees for the platform. Costs only arise from the Google Cloud resources actually migrated and used.
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