What are the requirements essential for using Migrate for Compute Engine

Question

I wish to use "Migrate for Compute Engine" so that I can a import a VM instance from AWS to GCP. What are the requirements to use the same?

Answer 1

The following are the requirements for using migrate for compute engine:

Bandwidth

The minimum bandwidth between your source environment and Compute Engine nodes should be the larger of:

• 20 Mbit/sec symmetric.
• The total number of VMs migrated concurrently, multiplied by 0.5 Mbit/sec per VM.

VM operating system requirements

VMs you want to migrate need to run a Supported operating system version.

Network Connectivity

Ports and connectivity required for using Migrate for Compute Engine are described at Network access requirements

GCP Permissions

Migrate for Compute Engine components require a specific set of GCP Service Accounts and Roles.

For AWS to GCP migrations

AWS permissions

Configuring AWS to GCP migrations requires privileges to:

• Set up a VPN or Interconnect between AWS and GCP.
• Create an IAM account and assign privileges to it.