Migrating to the cloud is one important option every IT firm is considering as it moves towards a full-fledged digital transformation.
To meet the growing cloud demand, the IT industry offers many cloud service providers and various cloud platforms for deployment according to needs.
One such leading cloud platform is the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Cloud Migration varies with every platform. This article will describe the GCP Cloud Migration process.
GCP Cloud Migration and How?
According to Google Cloud Solutions Architect Peter-Mark Verwoerd, migrating from an on-premises environment to a GCP is a five-step process.
In his presentation titled ‘Getting to the Cloud with Google Cloud Platform: A Sequential Approach’, Peter defines the following phases as five critical steps in the GCP Migration Strategy:
Phase-1: Assess
Any process needs to assess priorities and prerequisites in advance. The same is the case with phase 1 of the GCP cloud migration process. It’s essential to list the applications and check their adaptability or suitability to a cloud platform. This can include hardware, performance requirements, licensing and compliance, users, and application dependencies, among others.
While applications are divided into ‘Easy to Move’, ‘Hard to Move’, and ‘Can’t Move’, GCP experts consider greenfield apps, test, dev, and Q&A apps to be the ‘easy to move’ ones. Web apps are usually considered to have more cloud-friendly features because of their scalability.
Phase-2: Pilot
This is the crucial step where you need to recheck and be patient. Trying to migrate too many apps at a time might cause trouble. So, try moving one or two applications at a time. Besides, it’s vital to understand the cloud and its design patterns in this step.
No hurries! It’s recommended that you take time to validate performance, consider licensing options, and establish ways to execute a rollback.
Phase-3: Move Data
Unlike usual recommendations, GCP experts suggest moving data first and applications later. Proper data movement to the cloud sets a platform for smooth application migration, given that most applications are data-bound to dependencies.
This is also the phase when one should consider ways to move data, such as batch data transfers, database dumps, offline disk imports, or streaming to persistent disks, alongside cloud storage options.
Phase-4: Move Applications
With the data already set in, moving applications to the cloud is appropriate in this step. However, it’s essential to keep a close watch on the process to ensure the application is up and running in the cloud.
Phase-5: Optimize
This is the phase where one can play around with the applications that have just been migrated to GCP to improve them. It is also where one can check ways to enhance elasticity and monitoring.
Effective implementation of these five different phases makes your GCP Migration successful.
GCP Cloud Migration Advantages:
- Save time and Resources: GCP allows a lift-and-shift approach, which works better in cases of minimal architecture changes. Here, one can enjoy time and resource savings while shifting infrastructure and applications from on-premises Virtual Machines (VMs) to VMs operating in the cloud.
- Flexibility to Change: GCP brings extended support from Google and its network of partners, who can help you modernize your traditional, on-premises applications. One can easily rearrange, re-platform, or rearchitect applications like a group of microservices operating on the Google Cloud.
- Hybrid-friendly: GCP is hybrid-friendly by design. It helps you leverage cloud security and scalability while caring for on-premises infrastructure. Flexible plans build and efficiently manage reliable applications across on-premises data centers, multi-cloud environments, and private-hosted servers. GCP supports you!
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Given these advantages, one can gauge the advantages of migrating to GCP. Get on to it! Are you trying to know how?
How Veritis Can Help You?
The Veritis team of cloud consulting experts can offer you adequate cloud migration support to meet your business goals and planned expenditures.
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