Migrate on premise ESXI VM's to Cloud Compute

[VCubed Pty Ltd]

Hi Folks,

Not sure if this is the right place to pose this question,

My company has around 8 VM's currently running on an in premise ESXI server. They are predominately Windows Server 2012 with a couple of Linux distros as well.

Obviously we could recreate these but some of them have proprietary software running on them that will cost a lot of money and time to have an external company reconfigure.

Is there are a process to convert the VMDK files to some compatible image format and then import to Cloud Compute and spin them up?

I have searched for solutions and while there are guides for AWS I cant see anything for Cloud Compute and would like to avoid having both Google and AWS environments.

It seems odd to me that there is not a clear path to do this as there must be literally millions of business's that have existing ESXI environments that would move to a paid cloud solution if there was path available to do so that didn't require creating instances from scratch.

If anyone can offer suggestions/solutions it would be greatly appreciated.

[Brian Stark]

Hi!  I'm the product manager for VM migration at GCP and would be happy to help you.  We have a web page that described the best way to move your virtual machine into GCE here: https://cloud.google.com/migrate.  For your use case, I think CloudEndure's solution will provide the most straightforward path to migrate your virtual machine.  The cost of the machine migration is funded by Google, so use of their tool is free.  You can sign up for the service here (http://info.cloudendure.com/Google-Cloud-Platform-Free-Migration.html)