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GCP PCA · Question 24 · Migration Plan
You need to migrate 50 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Cloud Storage. Your corporate internet connection has 100 Mbps of available bandwidth. The migration must be completed within 2 weeks. Which migration tool should you use?
You need to migrate 50 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Cloud Storage. Your corporate internet connection has 100 Mbps of available bandwidth. The migration must be completed within 2 weeks. Which migration tool should you use?
Answer options:
A.
Storage Transfer Service
B.
gsutil command-line tool
C.
Transfer Appliance
D.
BigQuery Data Transfer Service
How to approach this question
Calculate the transfer time over the network. If it exceeds the deadline, choose a physical transfer method.
Full Answer
C.Transfer Appliance✓ Correct
Network math: 100 Mbps = 12.5 MB/s. 50 TB = 50,000,000 MB. 50,000,000 / 12.5 = 4,000,000 seconds = ~46 days. Since the deadline is 2 weeks, a network transfer is impossible. Google's Transfer Appliance is a physical server shipped to your location to securely capture data offline and physically transport it to a Google data center.
Common mistakes
Choosing Storage Transfer Service without doing the bandwidth math.
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