Enterprise Database Migration

This course is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs participants move databases to GCP while taking advantage of various GCP services.

This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.

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Duration 4 days
Level intermediate
Format ILT or on-demand

What you'll learn

  • Plan, execute, test, and monitor simple and complex enterprise database migrations to Google Cloud.
  • Evaluate on-premises database architectures and plan migrations to cloud-optimized deployments.
  • Choose appropriate Google Cloud database targets based on on-premises data sources.
  • Migrate SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL and Compute Engine.
  • Run Oracle databases on Google Cloud bare metal.
  • Recognize and overcome the real-world challenges of moving data to prevent data loss, preserve data integrity, and minimize downtime.
  • Test and monitor data migration projects.
  • Leverage tools to automate data migration.
  • Make the business case for moving databases to Google Cloud.

About this course

Overview

10 Modules · 80 Videos · 11 Labs · 3 Classrom activities

Who this course is for

Engineers planning a data migration to GCP; Engineers working on a database migration project; and Technical managers, IT decision-makers, and others who want to understand the benefits, risks, rewards, and processes of migrating databases to the cloud.

Prerequisite

GCP Professional Cloud Architect and/or Professional Data Engineer certification; Understanding of relational and NoSQL database design; Database development experience using SQL; Programming experience.

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Associated topic areas

Not Covered

Database Administration tasks

Module 1
Migrating Enterprise Databases to the Cloud
Objectives
  • Get a high-level solution overview of use cases, customers, and competitors.
  • Understand traditional database architectures.
  • Optimize databases for the cloud.
  • Architect cloud databases for high-availability, scalability, and durability.
Activities

Lecture

Module 2
Google Cloud Data Migration Solutions
Objectives
  • Evaluate the database solutions available on Google Cloud.
  • Run databases on Google Cloud infrastructure using Compute Engine.
  • Leverage Kubernetes and GKE for deploying databases.
  • Use Cloud SQL for managed database solutions.
  • Provision Bare Metal Solution for Oracle databases.
  • Estimate the cost of database solutions.
Activities

Lecture, Labs, and activity

Module 3
Google Implementation Methodology
Objectives
  • Migrate to the cloud using Google’s implementation methodology
  • Perform the key database migration activities
  • Choose the appropriate database migration approach.
Activities

Lecture and activity

Module 4
Migration Strategies
Objectives
  • Lift and shift databases from on-premises to Google Cloud.
  • Backup and restore databases from on-premises to Google Cloud services.
  • Migrate databases to the cloud with no downtime.
  • Optimize databases for the cloud.
Activities

Lecture

Module 5
Networking for Secure Database Connectivity
Objectives
  • Build secure networks to host databases and database client applications.
  • Allow secure communication across networks using VPC Peering, VPNs, and
    interconnect.
  • Control access to databases using firewall rules.
  • Automate network infrastructure using Terraform.
Activities

Lecture and Labs

Module 6
Migrating SQL Server Databases to Google Cloud
Objectives
  • Lift and shift SQL Server databases using Compute Engine.
  • Employ Cloud SQL for managed SQL Server databases.
  • Architect SQL Server for security, high availability, and disaster recovery.
  • Configure SQL Server to run with Kubernetes on GKE.
Activities

Lecture and Labs

Module 7
Migrating Oracle Databases to Google Cloud
Objectives
  • Explain why running Oracle on Google Cloud makes sense.
  • Review the technical specs of Oracle BMS.
  • Define common use cases for running Oracle on Google Cloud.
Activities

Lecture and Lab

Module 8
Testing and Monitoring Databases in Google Cloud
Objectives
  • Use unit, integration, and regression testing techniques to ensure database
    migration success.
  • Monitor your migration projects with Google tools.
Activities

Lecture and Labs

Module 9
Google Cloud Data Migration Tools
Objectives
  • Move large amounts of data to the cloud using Google transfer services
  • Program data processing and ETL pipelines using Cloud Data Fusion
  • Create workflows using Composer
Activities

Lecture and Lab

Module 10
Making the Business Case for Moving to Google Cloud
Objectives
  • Write a business case to justify a database migration.
  • Perform risk and cost/benefit analysis on a cloud migration project.
  • Estimate the costs associated with database migration.
Activities

Lecture and activity

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