- NAME
-
- gcloud alpha migration vms disk-migrations create - create a disk migration resource to migrate a disk to Compute Engine
- SYNOPSIS
-
-
gcloud alpha migration vms disk-migrations create
(DISK_MIGRATION
:--location
=LOCATION
--source
=SOURCE
)--source-volume-id
=SOURCE_VOLUME_ID
[--disk-id
=DISK_ID
] [--disk-type
=DISK_TYPE
] [--kms-key
=KMS_KEY
] [--labels
=[KEY
=VALUE
,…]] [--target-project
=TARGET_PROJECT
] [--zone
=ZONE
] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …
]
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
(ALPHA)
gcloud alpha migration vms disk-migrations create lets you create disk migration resource. You must create a disk migration resource before you can migrate your disk from any migration source to a Compute Engine disk. The disk migration resource tracks the progress of the disk migration. To use this command, you must enable VM Migration API in your project.Note that this command only creates a disk migration resource. It does not initiate the disk migration process. After creating the disk migration resource, you must initiate the migration process using the run command.
- EXAMPLES
-
To create a disk migration resource to migrate a volume vol-12345 from an AWS
source my-aws-source to my-target-project in us-central1, create the
my-disk-migration disk migration resource in my-project in us-central1, run:
gcloud alpha migration vms disk-migrations create my-disk-migration --project=my-project --location=us-central1 --source=my-aws-source --source-volume-id=vol-12345 --disk-id=gcp-disk1 --target-project=projects/my-project/locations/global/targetProjects/my-target-project
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
-
-
Disk migration resource - The disk migration resource you want to create. This
would be the disk ID if --disk-id is not given. The arguments in this group can
be used to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are
not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways.
To set the
project
attribute:-
provide the argument
disk_migration
on the command line with a fully specified name; -
provide the argument
--project
on the command line; -
set the property
core/project
.
This must be specified.
DISK_MIGRATION
-
ID of the disk_migration or fully qualified identifier for the disk_migration.
To set the
disk_migration
attribute:-
provide the argument
disk_migration
on the command line.
This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.
-
provide the argument
--location
=LOCATION
-
Resource location.
To set the
location
attribute:-
provide the argument
disk_migration
on the command line with a fully specified name; -
provide the argument
--location
on the command line; -
set the property
compute/region
.
-
provide the argument
--source
=SOURCE
-
The client source environment object.
To set the
source
attribute:-
provide the argument
disk_migration
on the command line with a fully specified name; -
provide the argument
--source
on the command line.
-
provide the argument
-
provide the argument
-
Disk migration resource - The disk migration resource you want to create. This
would be the disk ID if --disk-id is not given. The arguments in this group can
be used to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are
not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways.
- REQUIRED FLAGS
-
--source-volume-id
=SOURCE_VOLUME_ID
- The ID of the source volume that you want to migrate to Compute Engine.
- OPTIONAL FLAGS
-
--disk-id
=DISK_ID
- The ID of the disk that will be migrated to Compute Engine. The default value is the disk migration resource name.
--disk-type
=DISK_TYPE
-
The Compute Engine disk type to use for the migrated disk. The default value is
COMPUTE_ENGINE_DISK_TYPE_STANDARD.
DISK_TYPE
must be one of:compute-engine-disk-type-balanced
- Compute Engine Disk Type Balanced.
compute-engine-disk-type-hyperdisk-balanced
- Compute Engine Disk Type hyperdisk-balanced.
compute-engine-disk-type-ssd
- Compute Engine Disk Type SSD.
compute-engine-disk-type-standard
- Compute Engine Disk Type Standard.
--kms-key
=KMS_KEY
- Fully qualified identifier for the Cloud KMS (Key Management Service) cryptokey that will be used to protect the disk.
--labels
=[KEY
=VALUE
,…]- A map of labels to associate with the disk.
--target-project
=TARGET_PROJECT
- The target project resource path to which the disk will be migrated. Default is the host project. To get a list of the target projects run the gcloud alpha migration vms target-projects list command.
--zone
=ZONE
- The zone in which to create the disk. The default value is the first zone of the Google Cloud location parameter given.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
-
These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file
,--account
,--billing-project
,--configuration
,--flags-file
,--flatten
,--format
,--help
,--impersonate-service-account
,--log-http
,--project
,--quiet
,--trace-token
,--user-output-enabled
,--verbosity
.Run
$ gcloud help
for details. - API REFERENCE
-
This command uses the
vmmigration/v1
API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/migrate/virtual-machines - NOTES
- This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access allowlist.
gcloud alpha migration vms disk-migrations create
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Last updated 2025-10-07 UTC.