Question

A media company needs to migrate 900 TB of historical video archive from an on-premises NAS to Cloud Storage. Their outbound internet connection is a shared 1 Gbps link that is heavily used during business hours, and the migration must complete within 30 days without impacting production traffic. The archive is a one-time bulk move, after which only small incremental uploads are expected. Which migration approach best meets these constraints?

Accepted Answer

Order a Transfer Appliance, copy the archive locally, and ship it to Google for ingestion into Cloud Storage.

Answer

Use Storage Transfer Service over the existing 1 Gbps internet link with bandwidth throttling during business hours.

Answer

Provision a Dedicated Interconnect and run gsutil parallel composite uploads over it.

Answer

Use gsutil rsync from multiple on-premises VMs simultaneously to maximize throughput over the shared link.