GCP Design Plan Definitions

GCP - Workload

The GCP Workload design is a performance-driven architectural plan tailored for Google Cloud Platform. By focusing on rightsizing and utilizing GCP’s unique compute capabilities, this plan ensures that cloud resources are precisely matched to actual performance requirements. It provides a flexible, high-availability foundation for modernizing on-premises workloads within the Google ecosystem.

Key Features

• Rightsized for Workload: Uses data-driven analysis to prevent over-provisioning, ensuring that CPU and memory allocations reflect real-world utilization.

• On-Demand with Sustained-Use: Leverages GCP’s flexible pricing model, where automatic discounts are applied as instances run for a significant portion of the billing month.

• Optimized Compute Families: Prioritizes high-efficiency families such as C2, C3, and N2, ensuring the best balance of performance and cost for enterprise applications.

• GCP Persistent Storage: Utilizes a mix of Standard, SSD, and Local SSD persistent disks to balance high-speed IOPS requirements with cost-effective capacity.

GCP - Hardware

The GCP Hardware design, commonly referred to as a Lift and Shift strategy, is engineered for organizations looking to replicate their existing on-premises physical environment in the cloud with minimal architectural changes. This plan focuses on maintaining a 1:1 performance parity by matching existing hardware specifications with Google Cloud’s premier instance families, ensuring a low-risk and rapid migration path for mission-critical applications.

Key Features

• Lift and Shift Capability: Designed for speed and simplicity, allowing you to move workloads to the cloud without the need for immediate refactoring or code changes.

• Premier Instance Families: Leverages high-performance tiers such as C2 (Compute-Optimized) and M3 (Mega/Ultra Memory) to provide the robust physical-equivalent power required by enterprise databases and HPC workloads.

• Sustained-Use Benefits: Utilizing the "On-Demand including Sustained-Use" pricing ensures that your migrated hardware-heavy workloads automatically benefit from cost reductions as they run continuously.

• Direct Performance Mapping: By combining high-capacity Persistent Disks with Local SSD, this design provides the ultra-low latency and high-throughput required to mirror high-end local storage arrays.

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