Seamless Database Migration from Anywhere to Google Cloud
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- 5 days ago
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Introduction
Enterprise databases power critical applications across industries. As organizations embrace Google Cloud to improve scalability, agility, and cost efficiency, migrating databases—whether from on-premises environments or other clouds—has become a strategic priority. Cross-cloud and hybrid-cloud migrations to Google Cloud also support compliance, sovereignty, and modernization initiatives.
Why Migrate to Google Cloud?
Operational Efficiency through managed Google Cloud services and automation
Resilience and High Availability using Google’s global infrastructure
Compliance and Data Sovereignty to meet GDPR, HIPAA, and local mandates
Modernization via scalable, cloud-native database services
Challenges in Database Migration
Database workloads are tightly integrated with application stacks, making migration complex:
Platform compatibility: Differences across hypervisors, boot processes, and machine formats
Physical-to-virtual barriers: Legacy deployments on bare-metal servers may resist replication or automation
Downtime constraints: Mission-critical workloads require minimum downtime for cutover operations
Data integrity validation: Ensuring consistency and proper cutover across environments
Application stack dependencies: Coordinated migration of multi-tiered apps (web, app, DB layers)
These issues are consistent whether migrating relational (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL) or nonrelational databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis).
RackWare for Google Cloud Migrations
RackWare for Servers and VMs enables fast, reliable migration of databases to Google Cloud with minimal disruption.

Key Capabilities
Hypervisor-Agnostic Migration: Enables transitions across VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Xen, and cloud-native platforms
Physical servers: RackWare supports physical servers as part of their normal workflow without any special configuration options
Agentless Live Capture & Sync: Full-stack replication of database workloads with policybased synchronization
Automated Provisioning: Supports accurate provisioning to match origin hardware to target options
Boot & Data Consistency: Ensures complete and validated cutovers where the entire application stack comes online seamlessly
RackWare makes database migration to Google Cloud efficient, predictable, and compliant—empowering enterprises to unlock the full value of cloud.
Supported Databases include:

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