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October 31, 2023
Transfer Appliance now has alpha-level support in the gcloud CLI (gcloud alpha transfer appliances) allowing you to view in-progress transfer results, work with draft orders, clone existing orders, and more. See the reference documentation for full details.
September 27, 2023
New Appliance setup experience is released. Users can use the Google Cloud console to fully set up permissions for the appliance and receive the credentials.
March 08, 2023
ta check is a command line tool to detect and help fix configuration issues with Transfer Appliance and Edge Appliance.
September 14, 2022
Users can now review data that successfully transferred and failed to transfer in log files that auto-generate after a transfer is completed. Learn more about data verification log files here.
September 09, 2022
Remote Wipe is an optional step in the appliance return process that allows customers to erase data on their appliance before returning it to Google.
Learn more about how to wipe an appliance.
September 02, 2022
The lock/unlock feature allows you to securely move an appliance between data centers while ensuring that the data is encrypted and not accessible when the appliance comes in contact with third-party shipping services or people outside of your organization.
Learn more about the guide here.
August 17, 2022
Edge Appliance is now generally available (GA).
Edge Appliance is a Google Cloud-managed, secure, high-performance appliance for edge locations. It provides local storage, ML inference, data transformation, and export.
July 12, 2022
Transfer Appliance is now available in an additional size. The TA7 appliance offers up to 7TB of storage in a smaller form factor than our other appliances. It offers both online and offline transfer modes.
Learn more about the TA7 on the Specifications page, or order an appliance from the Cloud console.
June 02, 2021
Transfer Appliance offers the Transfer Appliance Cloud Setup Application. The application prompts for several settings, and uses the information you provide to configure your Google Cloud permissions, preferred Cloud Storage bucket, and Cloud KMS key for your transfer.
March 30, 2021
Transfer Appliance version 2.2 is deprecated and replaced by Transfer Appliance version 4.0.
November 04, 2020
Transfer Appliance version 4.0 is released.
June 26, 2018
Transfer Appliance software now performs a data integrity check at every stage of the data migration.
New communications protocol removes the need for connections from Transfer Appliance to workstations running the Capture Utility. See Firewall port requirements.
Password for Rehydrator SMTP configuration is now optional.
Password for SMTP configuration is now optional, enabling email alerts to be sent via both authenticated and unauthenticated SMTP servers.
Network usage monitoring is now available through the Transfer Appliance Web User Interface.
To avoid early deletion charges, the Rehydrator uses regional or multi-regional storage class locations as appropriate when building component objects to rehydrate files greater than 100GB.
Transfer Appliance allows cancellation of data capture jobs.
Transfer Appliance Console User Interface now provides most features through Data Capture and Settings menus.
NFS share export is now a supported data capture method.
Rehydration job time to completion is now displayed in the Pending Jobs list.
Transfer Appliance Capture Utility now preserves file metadata by default.
While performing an NFS capture, Transfer Appliance allows you to navigate to and select specific folders.
Disk status indicators are now accessible from the Settings menu in Transfer Appliance Web User Interface.