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Migrate to Virtual Machines lets you migrate your virtual machines (VMs) running
on an on-premises vSphere data center or on Google Cloud VMware Engine to VM
instances running on Google Cloud.
The following diagram shows the architecture for migrating VMs from on-premises
vSphere data center or from Google Cloud VMware Engine to Google Cloud:
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