GCP Migration & Enterprise Modernization Hub 🚀

Google Cloud provides an integrated end-to-end migration portfolio designed to assess, plan, replicate, and modernize enterprise infrastructure from on-premises datacenters (VMware vSphere, bare metal) and other public clouds (AWS, Azure) into Google Cloud compute, container, and database environments with minimal business downtime.

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Service Catalog & Architecture Map

Service	Target Workload	Primary Modernization Vector	Reference Guide
Migration Center	Enterprise IT Estates	Unified discovery, inventory assessment, TCO estimation, and wave planning.	Migration Center Deep Dive
Migrate to Virtual Machines	VMware / AWS / Azure VMs	Agentless block-level continuous data replication directly into Compute Engine.	Compute Engine (GCE)
Migrate to Containers	Monolithic VM Workloads	Deconstructing OS images into containerized workloads running on GKE.	Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Database Migration Service (DMS)	Relational Databases	Low-downtime Change Data Capture (CDC) into Cloud SQL and AlloyDB.	Cloud SQL Deep Dive
Storage Transfer Service	Unstructured & Object Data	High-throughput petabyte-scale data migration from S3, Azure Blob, and local NAS into GCS.	Storage Transfer Service

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The Migration Lifecycle Framework

flowchart LR
    subgraph Phase1 ["1. Assess & Discover"]
        MC["Migration Center (Agentless Discovery & TCO Estimation)"]
    end

    subgraph Phase2 ["2. Plan & Group"]
        Waves["Wave Planning & Dependency Mapping (Network Topology)"]
    end

    subgraph Phase3 ["3. Replicate & Migrate"]
        direction TB
        M4VM["Migrate to VMs (Block-Level Replication Engine)"]
        DMS["Database Migration Service (CDC Replication)"]
        STS["Storage Transfer Service (Object / NAS Sync)"]
    end

    subgraph Phase4 ["4. Modernize & Optimize"]
        direction TB
        GCE["Compute Engine VMs (Rightsized Shapes)"]
        CloudSQL["Cloud SQL / AlloyDB"]
        GKE["GKE (Containerized Services)"]
    end

    MC --> Waves
    Waves --> M4VM
    Waves --> DMS
    Waves --> STS
    M4VM --> GCE
    DMS --> CloudSQL
    STS --> GCS[("Cloud Storage")]
    GCE -.->|"Modernize"| GKE

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Related Knowledge Hubs

• GCP — Master Google Cloud Platform architectural catalog
• Compute Engine (GCE) — Target platform for virtual machine migrations
• Storage Transfer Service — Bulk data migration
• AWS Migration Comparison — Comparison with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) and DMS