With Google Cloud Migration Center, you can discover physical servers and virtual machine
(VM) instances in your infrastructure hosted on-premises or on other cloud
providers, and gather detailed information about every component.
Collection methods
Migration Center lets you collect data from your infrastructure in
different ways to give you the flexibility to balance speed and depth of
discovery.
Migration Center supports three approaches:
- Automated one-time collection
- Automated continuous collection
- Manual data import
The following sections help you decide which method and tools to use
depending on your use case.
Automated one-time collection
Automated one-time collection lets you get a snapshot of your
infrastructure at a given time.
You can use this to quickly collect performance data from your physical or
virtual machine (VM) instances. You can also collect historical performance
and networking information, if this is available at the hypervisor level.
To perform an automated one-time collection, download and run the
Migration Center discovery client CLI, then scan your infrastructure.
Finally, export the collected configuration and performance data to
Migration Center.
To learn how data collection works with the
mcdc
CLI, see
Migration Center discovery client CLI overview
.
Automated continuous collection
Automated continuous collection lets you get the full information about
your infrastructure over a period of time with scheduled collection
capabilities.
To perform continuous collection, install the discovery client on a
Windows machine and allow it to periodically scan your infrastructure and
gather configuration and performance data.
To learn how automatic data collection works, see
Migration Center discovery client overview
.
Manual data import
Manual data import lets you fully control which data to upload to
Migration Center.
You can manually import data into Migration Center with the
following methods:
The following table can help you choose between the data collection tools that
Migration Center offers. You can also use multiple tools for your
assessment.
For example, you can start with a manual or one-time collection,
then switch to the continuous collection after you get an initial view of
your infrastructure.
Or, you might have a heterogeneous environment that requires different methods
to assess everything that you want to migrate.
* Use the
mcdc
CLI for Windows if you need to collect
data directly from Windows hosts.
Security and privacy
For every server in your existing environment, Migration Center collects
the following information:
- Machine information
- Configuration data
- Utilization data
- Network dependencies
- Installed software
The breadth of data collected depends on the collection method you select,
as well as any security settings that are applied during setup.
Other than IP addresses, Migration Center doesn't collect personally
identifiable information (PII) or data subject to PCI or
HIPAA compliance requirements.
Migration Center doesn't collect data from within your applications
or file storage.
For more information about the data collected, see
Collection methods
.
All collected data is used solely to analyze your IT infrastructure for a
cloud assessment and migration plan.
Your data is never sold to any third parties.
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