Google Cloud VMware Engine
Easily lift and shift your VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without changes to your apps, tools, or processes. The service provides all the hardware and VMware licenses you need to run in a dedicated VMware SDDC in Google Cloud.
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Get started quickly by migrating your VMware environment with just a few clicks
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Provision an entire VMware SDDC in about 30 minutes across 12 global regions
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See how our customers are modernizing their VMware apps with Google Cloud VMware Engine
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Benefits
Fully integrated VMware experience
Unlike other solutions, we simplify the use of VMware services and tools with unified identities, management, support, and monitoring while providing all the licenses, cloud services, and billing you need.
Fast provisioning and scale
Take advantage of the elasticity and scale of the cloud—through fast provisioning, you can spin up a new private cloud in about 30 minutes with dynamic resource management and auto scaling.
Use familiar third-party applications in the cloud
Continue to use your core enterprise applications in the cloud, without changes. We’ve developed integrations with leading database, storage, DR, and backup ISVs so you can continue to use the apps you know.
Key features
Key features
Fast networking and high availability
VMware Engine is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant, scalable infrastructure with fully redundant and dedicated 100 Gbps networking, providing 99.99% availability to meet the needs of your most demanding enterprise workloads.
An integrated Google Cloud experience
Benefit from full access to innovative Google Cloud services. Native VPC networking gives you private layer-3 access between VMware environments and other Google Cloud services, allowing you to use standard access mechanisms such as Cloud VPN or Interconnect. Additionally, billing, identity, and access control are integrated to unify the experience with other Google Cloud services.
Robust VMware ecosystem solutions
Continue to leverage IT management tools and third-party services consistent with the on-premises environment. We’re partnering closely with leading storage, backup, and disaster recovery providers such as NetApp, Actifio, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, and Dell Technologies to ensure support for third-party solutions, ease the migration journey, and enable business continuity. Learn more.
Utilize familiar VMware tools or Google Cloud operations suite
We make it easy for you to move to the cloud because you can continue to use the same VMware tools, processes, and policies you are familiar with. Manage your on-premises VMware workloads and those in the cloud with the same suite of tools to simplify your migration. Additionally, you can use Google Cloud operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve application performance on your Google Cloud environment.
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Documentation
Documentation
Google Cloud VMware Engine how-to guides
Learn how to access the VMware Engine portal, migrate workloads, and how to manage private clouds, networking, the vSphere client, and more.
Running VMware-based applications in Google Cloud
Deeper insights into how VMware Engine facilitates migrating your apps to Google Cloud and the impact on networking, security, monitoring, and maintenance.
Private cloud networking for Google Cloud VMware Engine
Explore networking concepts, typical traffic flows, and considerations for using VMware Engine to design a private cloud architecture within Google Cloud.
Use cases
Use cases
Below is a representative reference architecture on how you can migrate or extend your VMware environment to Google Cloud while also benefiting from Google Cloud services.
Retire or extend your data center to the cloud. Quickly meet your business needs by leveraging on-demand burst capacity. Pay for what you use and benefit from flexible consumption options.
Build or shift disaster recovery capabilities to the cloud, lower costs, and remove operational burdens. Leverage third-party DR services to maintain continuity with your on-premises environment.
Enable your employees to work from anywhere by building and scaling your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) on demand such as VMware Horizon or Citrix. VMware Engine is built with high-performance, all-flash, hyper-converged architecture that can support your most demanding applications and help users achieve consistent performance.
Migrate and modernize your workloads by integrating with cloud-native services. Derive business insights with BigQuery, build intelligent prediction models with Cloud AI, modernize your applications with Anthos, and unify management with Google Cloud’s operations suite.
Boost agility and resilience in retail. Migrate your VMware apps to the cloud and transform them with Google services to drive scale, enhance customer experience, and become a data-driven retailer.
Elevate agility and security in financial services. Simplify cloud migration so you can modernize your business with new insights, optimize IT operations, and drive omnichannel growth.
Learn how telcos can provide new, scalable services in the cloud.
All features
All features
| On-demand self-service provisioning of VMware private clouds | Deploy, expand, or shrink your VMware private clouds in minutes. Pay for what you use and benefit from flexible consumption options. |
| Integrated connectivity to Google Cloud services | Benefit from full access and seamless integration with innovative Google Cloud services such as BigQuery, Google Cloud’s operations suite, Cloud Storage, Anthos, and Cloud AI. |
| VMware ecosystem compatibility | VMware Engine allows users to obtain administrative rights to install and maintain continuity with third-party tools for backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring, along with adding external identity sources and users. |
| Performant networking | VMware Engine is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant, scalable infrastructure with fully redundant and dedicated 100 Gbps networking. Cloud networking services such as Interconnect and Cloud VPN ease access from your on-premises environments to the cloud. |
| Purpose built to run your most demanding workloads | A scalable hyper-converged architecture with all NVMe disks allows you to run and scale your infrastructure in minutes to meet the needs of your most demanding workloads such as transactional databases and applications. |
| Simplified operations | VMware Engine is designed to minimize your operational burden so you can focus on your business. We take care of life cycle management of the VMware software stack and manage all related infrastructure and upgrades. |
Pricing
Pricing
Pricing is based on consumption and commitment term;
options include on-demand or
committed use discounts
for one- and three-year terms, with a three-node
minimum. NEW - The
Catalyst Program
provides Google Cloud credits based on usage. VMware Engine is available in
twelve regions
around the world. Visit our
pricing calculator
for current pricing in your region. View and download prices
from the
pricing table,
and access
SKU
information with the
Cloud Billing Catalog API.
VMware Engine currently has one node type
(ve1-standard-72): • CPU: 2x - 2.6 GHz (3.9 GHz Turbo), 36 cores, 72
hyperthreaded cores • Memory: 768 GB • Data: 19.2 TB NVMe • Cache: 3.2 TB NVMe • Includes VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX-T, and
VMware HCX
| Region | On demand | One-year up front (prepaid) | Three-year up front (prepaid) |
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us-east4 (Ashburn) |
$9.29/hour $8.18/hour (promotion*) |
$6.50/hour $5.72/hour (promotion*) |
$4.65/hour $4.09/hour (promotion*) |
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us-west2 (Los Angeles) |
$9.92/hour $8.73/hour (promotion*) |
$6.94/hour $6.11/hour (promotion*) |
$4.96/hour $4.36/hour (promotion*) |
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europe-west3 (Frankfurt) |
$10.63/hour $9.35/hour (promotion*) |
$7.44/hour $6.55/hour (promotion*) |
$5.31/hour $4.68/hour (promotion*) |
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asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) |
$10.59/hour $9.32/hour (promotion*) |
$7.41/hour $6.52/hour (promotion*) |
$5.30/hour $4.66/hour (promotion*) |
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europe-west2 (London) |
$10.63/hour $9.35/hour (promotion*) |
$7.44/hour $6.55/hour (promotion*) |
$5.31/hour $4.68/hour (promotion*) |
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australia-southeast1 (Sydney) |
$10.22/hour $8.99/hour (promotion*) |
$7.15/hour $6.29/hour (promotion*) |
$5.11/hour $4.50/hour (promotion*) |
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europe-west4 (Netherlands) |
$10.63/hour $9.35/hour (promotion*) |
$7.44/hour $6.55/hour (promotion*) |
$5.31/hour $4.68/hour (promotion*) |
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asia-southeast1 (Singapore) |
$10.22/hour $8.99/hour (promotion*) |
$7.15/hour $6.29/hour (promotion*) |
$5.11/hour $4.50/hour (promotion*) |
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southamerica-east1 (São Paulo) |
$13.10/hour $11.53/hour (promotion*) |
$9.17/hour $8.07/hour (promotion*) |
$6.55/hour $5.76/hour (promotion*) |
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northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal, Québec, North America) |
$10.22/hour $8.99/hour (promotion*) |
$7.15/hour $6.29/hour (promotion*) |
$5.11/hour $4.50/hour (promotion*) |
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us-central1 (Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America) |
$9.29/hour $8.18/hour (promotion*) |
$6.50/hour $5.72/hour (promotion*) |
$4.65/hour $4.09/hour (promotion*) |
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asia-south1 (Mumbai) |
$10.22/hour $8.99/hour (promotion*) |
$7.15/hour $6.29/hour (promotion*) |
$5.11/hour $4.50/hour (promotion*) |
One-year and three-year pricing is invoiced monthly. Up-front pricing available now.
*Time-limited promotion (requires Google Cloud Commit or Enterprise Agreement). Contact Sales for more information.
Partners
Partners
We’re building integrations with technology partners
and growing our service partner ecosystem to simplify
migration and ensure continuity with how you run your
applications today.
