Use transfer Centre to learn about and evaluate the transfer of your database workloads to Google Cloud. The public cloud is still being used by organisations to improve IT and business results. Modernisation and migration, however, present a difficult, multidimensional problem. Determining what the future state of infrastructure and apps should look like and how to get there requires an understanding of the existing state. All of this takes place across several stakeholders with a wide range of tools, procedures, and implementation partners. Don’t let that scare you, though; Google Cloud also have wonderful news!
With smart, data-driven insights and practical suggestions, Google Cloud Migration Center is a single platform that may assist speed up the transition from existing on-premises or cloud infrastructures to Google Cloud. This will assist you in choosing the best migration and modernisation strategies for your company.
What is Google Cloud Migration Center?
A single platform called Google Cloud Migration Center assists you in expediting the transition from your existing on-premises or cloud infrastructures to Google Cloud. move Centre gives you the tools you need for your move with capabilities like cloud expenditure estimation, asset discovery of your current environment, and a range of tooling for various migration situations.
There are three primary stages to the database discovery and evaluation process:
Discovery and collection of source database details
Setting up a database and gathering metrics Open-source collection scripts are used to gather source database setups for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
The script may be executed on your source system from a remote server that has database access or directly on the database server. An example of executing the script from a bastion/jump server is provided here:
./collect-data.sh --collectionUserName <DB-Username> --collectionUserPass <DB-Userpassword> --hostName <Database-host> --port <DB-port> --databaseService <Db-servicename> --vmUserName <DB-Server-username>
When the script is finished, it immediately generates a ZIP file with the extracted settings and metrics, which you can submit into Google Cloud Migration Center.
Note: To get the host’s specification details, use the parameter “–vmUserName” if you are executing the script from a bastion or jump server rather than the database server directly.
Adding artifacts of discovery to the Migration Center
Following these procedures, you may send the result files to Migration Center to complete the product assessment when you’ve created them:
- Navigate to the Migration Center main page in the Google Cloud dashboard. Select Data Import > Add Files > Upload Files under Discovery.
- Select “Database Import File” as the file format in the following step, then click “Upload Files” after uploading all of your DMA output zip files.
- The Migration Center Assets section now allows you to see the deployed databases that have been uploaded.
Technical fit assessment
All of the servers and databases that have been found are included in the Migration Center’s Assets section. Along with a high-level fit score for Cloud SQL and AlloyDB, the list of database installations displays high-level specifics of the databases that were found.
Click on the source databases you wish to evaluate and the available data, including the fit score, target instance sizing, performance statistics, possible cloud products, source logical database settings, and hosting server configurations, to view a complete configuration.
By selecting the fit score (fit with effort, for example), which enumerates unsupported features, parameters, or flags found in the source databases that must be fixed during the migration to Cloud SQL or AlloyDB, you may also see the technical fit report.
Estimates of costs
There are three steps involved in determining the cost of using Google Cloud Migration Center to run servers and databases in the cloud:
- Assemble the databases and/or servers (in one or more groups) for evaluation.
- As migration scenarios to evaluate, create one or more migration preferences.
- Assign groups to up to four preferences to generate a TCO report.
Form a group
You must group the assets you wish to assess for cost estimates in order to generate the price report. Navigate to Groups -> Discovery -> Form a Group.
Decide the pertinent servers and/or datasets you want to evaluate collectively. Google Cloud advise classifying your source environment (applications, environments, etc.) into categories.
Create migration preferences
In essence, a migration scenario may be represented by a set of factors known as migration preferences. To evaluate the prices of cloud servers and databases, you may establish several migration preferences and utilise them to build “what if” scenarios in TCO reports. For instance, you may set up migration preferences for various Cloud SQL versions with backups and high availability enabled.
Navigate to Migration Center > Discovery > Migration Preferences > establish Migration Preference in order to establish a migration preference.
Create a TCO report for your server and database workloads
- To begin building the report, select Reports -> Create Reports -> TCO and comprehensive price report.
- Choose the asset group or groups you want to evaluate.
- Give each group a maximum of four input migration preferences.
Details on the source environment, server and database cost estimates, and the option to export the analysis in CSV or Google Slides formats are all included in the TCO report.
Explore Migration Center
Without altering your workloads or apps, you can plan your move, scan and evaluate your infrastructure, and estimate your cloud expenditures using the tools in move Centre. Learn more about these important feature sets.

Estimate your cloud costs
Depending on the size and configuration of the resources in your present on-premises system, Google Cloud Migration Center enables you to quickly obtain an estimate of your future cloud expenditures. This eliminates some of the uncertainty around future cloud spending for you and your company.
Discover your assets
By automatically scanning your on-premises infrastructure, Migration Center assists you in creating an inventory of your assets, including servers, MySQL, PostgreSQL databases, and Microsoft SQL Server. The time and effort that would otherwise be spent gathering this data manually is saved for your organisation by using Google Cloud Migration Center to automate as much of this as possible.
However, you also have the option to manually upload your infrastructure data into Migration Center if you would prefer not to have your assets’ data collected automatically.
Assess your infrastructure
You may go further into the investigation and obtain a comprehensive perspective of your surroundings with Google Cloud Migration Center.
Create total cost of ownership reports based on your specified migration choices, taking into account your business’s goals and limitations.
Determine the network and application dependencies to determine which components need to be migrated together.
Learn the expenses up front and receive data-driven recommendations based on a technical fit evaluation of the Google Cloud products to move your assets there.
Plan your migration
You may reduce the total migration risks and plan your relocation more swiftly and simply by utilising the through assessment. The Google Cloud Migration Center offers a variety of resources to assist you on this path, such as prescriptive advice on what to move and how to migrate it, as well as best practices for planning a migration.
Migrate
Migration Center offers a wide range of tools that enable various migration strategies, including rehost, replatform, and restructure, to assist you when you need to move your infrastructure to Google Cloud.
Your company can successfully lead an end-to-end migration with the help of a complete toolset, precise planning, and a thorough evaluation.
You can find and evaluate servers and databases, two essential parts of any IT architecture, with Google Cloud Migration Center.