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zone</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Review VM deployment options</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/choose-compute-deployment-option" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/choose-compute-deployment-option" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/choose-compute-deployment-option" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Choose a deployment strategy</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/about-vm-tenancy" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" 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track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/robustsystems" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Design resilient systems</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/networking/network-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/networking/network-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/networking/network-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Networking overview for VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Images and operating systems</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>OS images</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About OS images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/os-details" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/os-details" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/os-details" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Operating system details</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/os-image-lifecycle" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/os-image-lifecycle" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/os-image-lifecycle" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>OS image lifecycle</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/support-maintenance-policy" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/support-maintenance-policy" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/support-maintenance-policy" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Support policy</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Premium operating systems</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/premium/rhel-faq" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/premium/rhel-faq" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/premium/rhel-faq" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>RHEL FAQ</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/premium/sles-faq" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/premium/sles-faq" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/premium/sles-faq" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>SLES FAQ</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro-faq" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro-faq" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro-faq" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Ubuntu Pro FAQ</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Microsoft Licensing on Google Cloud</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing-faq" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing-faq" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing-faq" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Microsoft licenses FAQ</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Access control</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Access control overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/managing-access-to-resources" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/managing-access-to-resources" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/managing-access-to-resources" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage access to Compute Engine resources</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/custom-constraints" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/custom-constraints" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/custom-constraints" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage resources by using custom constraints</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/iam" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/iam" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/iam" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>IAM roles and permissions</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/service-accounts" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/service-accounts" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/service-accounts" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Service accounts</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/naming-resources" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/naming-resources" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/naming-resources" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Name resources</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Quickstarts</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/create-linux-vm-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/create-linux-vm-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/create-linux-vm-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a Linux VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/create-windows-server-vm-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/create-windows-server-vm-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/create-windows-server-vm-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a Windows Server VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/quickstart-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/quickstart-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/quickstart-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a managed instance group</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create instances</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/instance-creation-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/instance-creation-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/instance-creation-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Instance creation overview</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-start-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-start-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-start-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and start an instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance and customize machine configuration</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/custom-hostname-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/custom-hostname-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/custom-hostname-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance with a custom hostname</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/creating-instance-with-custom-machine-type" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/creating-instance-with-custom-machine-type" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/creating-instance-with-custom-machine-type" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance with a custom machine type</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/specify-min-cpu-platform" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/specify-min-cpu-platform" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/specify-min-cpu-platform" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Specify a minimum CPU platform for an instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance with attached GPUs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/create-vm-with-gpus" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/create-vm-with-gpus" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/create-vm-with-gpus" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Accelerator-optimized instances</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-accelerator-optimized" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-accelerator-optimized" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-accelerator-optimized" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an accelerator-optimized instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/gpudirect" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/gpudirect" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/gpudirect" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an A3 instance with GPUDirect-TCPX enabled</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-general-purpose" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-general-purpose" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-general-purpose" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an N1 instance that has attached GPUs</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance and customize OS configuration</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-public-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-public-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-public-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance from a public image</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-custom-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-custom-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-custom-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance from a custom image</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-shared-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-shared-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-shared-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance from a shared image</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-rhel-byos-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-rhel-byos-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-rhel-byos-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance using a RHEL BYOS image</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance and customize networking configuration</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-specific-subnet" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-specific-subnet" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-specific-subnet" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance in a specific subnet</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance and customize observability configuration</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-ops-agent-monitoring-logging" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-ops-agent-monitoring-logging" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-ops-agent-monitoring-logging" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance for Ops Agent monitoring and logging</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/enable-instance-virtual-display" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/enable-instance-virtual-display" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/enable-instance-virtual-display" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Enable virtual displays on an instance</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance and customize security configuration</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/create-enable-service-accounts-for-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/create-enable-service-accounts-for-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/create-enable-service-accounts-for-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance that uses a user-managed service account</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance using an existing configuration</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-instance-template" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-instance-template" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-instance-template" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance from an instance template</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-similar-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-similar-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-similar-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an instance similar to an existing instance</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a Spot VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Spot VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/spot" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/spot" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/spot" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Spot VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-use-spot" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-use-spot" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-use-spot" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and use Spot VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Preemptible VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-unsupported"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/preemptible" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/preemptible" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/preemptible" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About preemptible VMs</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="unsupported" data-title="No longer supported" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-unsupported"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-use-preemptible" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-use-preemptible" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-use-preemptible" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and use preemptible VMs</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="unsupported" data-title="No longer supported" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create instances for specific workload types</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-workload-optimized-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-workload-optimized-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-workload-optimized-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a Google-configured, workload-optimized instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-hpc-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-hpc-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-hpc-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an HPC-ready instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-managing-windows-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-managing-windows-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-managing-windows-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and manage a Windows Server instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/creating-sql-server-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/creating-sql-server-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/creating-sql-server-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a SQL Server instance</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create custom images</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/building-custom-os" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/building-custom-os" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/building-custom-os" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Requirements to build custom images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/create-custom" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/create-custom" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/create-custom" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create custom images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/creating-custom-windows-byol-images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/creating-custom-windows-byol-images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/creating-custom-windows-byol-images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create custom Windows BYOL base images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-windows-os-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-windows-os-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-windows-os-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create custom Windows Server images</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and manage instance templates</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-templates" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-templates" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About instance templates</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create instance templates</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/deterministic-instance-templates" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-templates/deterministic-instance-templates" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-templates/deterministic-instance-templates" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deterministic instance templates</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Get, list, and delete instance templates</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create multiple VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a managed instance group (MIG)</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-managed-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-managed-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-managed-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Basic scenarios for creating MIGs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-zonal-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-zonal-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-zonal-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG in a single zone</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/distributing-instances-with-regional-instance-groups" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/distributing-instances-with-regional-instance-groups" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/distributing-instances-with-regional-instance-groups" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG in multiple zones in a region</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-multiple-machine-types" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-multiple-machine-types" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-multiple-machine-types" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG with multiple machine types</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-from-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-from-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-from-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG from an existing VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-basic-autoscaling" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-basic-autoscaling" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-basic-autoscaling" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG with autoscaling</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-preemptible-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-preemptible-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-preemptible-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG with preemptible VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-gpu-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-gpu-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-gpu-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG with GPU VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-basic-stateful-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-basic-stateful-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-mig-with-basic-stateful-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a MIG with stateful configuration</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Bulk creation of VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/multiple/about-bulk-creation" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/multiple/about-bulk-creation" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/multiple/about-bulk-creation" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About bulk creation of VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/multiple/create-in-bulk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/multiple/create-in-bulk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/multiple/create-in-bulk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create VMs in bulk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-bulk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-bulk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/create-gpu-vm-bulk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create GPU VMs in bulk</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create sole-tenant VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-nodes" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-nodes" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-nodes" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Sole-tenancy overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/provisioning-sole-tenant-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/provisioning-sole-tenant-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/provisioning-sole-tenant-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Provision a sole-tenant VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenancy-advanced-maintenance-control" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenancy-advanced-maintenance-control" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenancy-advanced-maintenance-control" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Advanced maintenance control for sole-tenant nodes</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Sole-tenancy best practices</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenancy-accounting-faq" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenancy-accounting-faq" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenancy-accounting-faq" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Sole-tenancy accounting FAQ</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a virtual workstation</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/virtual-workstation" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About creating virtual workstations</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/linux" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/virtual-workstation/linux" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/linux" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a virtual Linux workstation</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/virtual-workstation/windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a virtual Windows workstation</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/linux-gpu" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/virtual-workstation/linux-gpu" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/linux-gpu" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a virtual Linux workstation with an attached GPU</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/windows-gpu" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/virtual-workstation/windows-gpu" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/virtual-workstation/windows-gpu" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a virtual Windows workstation with an attached GPU</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use nested virtualization</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About nested virtualization</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/managing-constraint" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/managing-constraint" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/managing-constraint" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage the nested virtualization constraint</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/enabling" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/enabling" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/enabling" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Enable nested virtualization</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/creating-nested-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/creating-nested-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/creating-nested-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create nested VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage VM boot disks</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/detach-reattach-boot-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/detach-reattach-boot-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/detach-reattach-boot-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Detach and reattach a boot disk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/create-root-persistent-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/create-root-persistent-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/create-root-persistent-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a customized boot disk</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Migrate VMs</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Choose a migration path</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/bringing-your-own-licenses" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/bringing-your-own-licenses" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/bringing-your-own-licenses" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Bring your own licenses</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Import disks and images</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/requirements-export-import-images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/requirements-export-import-images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/requirements-export-import-images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Prerequisites for importing and exporting VM images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Automatic import</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/importing-virtual-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/importing-virtual-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/importing-virtual-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Import virtual disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/import-ovf-files" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/import-ovf-files" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/import-ovf-files" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Import virtual appliances</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/import-aws-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/import-aws-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/import-aws-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Import images from AWS</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manual import</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/import-existing-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/import-existing-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/import-existing-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manually import boot disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/configuring-imported-images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/configuring-imported-images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/configuring-imported-images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manually configure imported disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/creating-an-image-from-an-iso-file" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/creating-an-image-from-an-iso-file" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/creating-an-image-from-an-iso-file" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a persistent disk image from an ISO file</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Move a VM within Google Cloud</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/moving-instance-across-zones" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/moving-instance-across-zones" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/moving-instance-across-zones" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Move a VM between zones</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/migrating-interfaces-between-networks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/migrating-interfaces-between-networks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/migrating-interfaces-between-networks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Migrate a VM between networks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/copy-vm-between-projects" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/copy-vm-between-projects" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/copy-vm-between-projects" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Copy VMs between projects</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/import/migrate-to-new-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/import/migrate-to-new-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/import/migrate-to-new-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Move an existing VM to a new VM</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to VMs</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/ssh" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/ssh" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/ssh" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About SSH connections</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Linux VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/standard-ssh" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/standard-ssh" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/standard-ssh" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect through internal IP addresses</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-internal-ip" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-internal-ip" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-internal-ip" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connection options for internal-only VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-iap" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-iap" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-iap" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect using IAP</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-bastion-host" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-bastion-host" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-bastion-host" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect using a bastion host</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-vpn" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-vpn" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-using-vpn" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect using Cloud VPN</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/root-ssh" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/root-ssh" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/root-ssh" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect as the root user</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/set-up-service-account-ssh" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/set-up-service-account-ssh" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/set-up-service-account-ssh" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect using service accounts</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/service-account-ssh" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/service-account-ssh" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/service-account-ssh" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure apps to use SSH</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practices</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/solutions/connecting-securely" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /solutions/connecting-securely" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/solutions/connecting-securely" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Securely connect to VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Windows VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to Windows VMs using RDP</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-sac" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-sac" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-sac" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to a Windows VM's SAC</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/windows-ssh" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/windows-ssh" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/windows-ssh" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to Windows VMs using SSH</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/connecting-powershell" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/connecting-powershell" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/connecting-powershell" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Connect to Windows VMs using PowerShell</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage access to VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Linux VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/access-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/access-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/access-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Choose an access management method</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/oslogin" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/oslogin" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/oslogin" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About OS Login</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/oslogin/set-up-oslogin" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/oslogin/set-up-oslogin" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/oslogin/set-up-oslogin" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up OS Login</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/oslogin/security-keys" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/oslogin/security-keys" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/oslogin/security-keys" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Enable security keys with OS Login</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/oslogin/manage-oslogin-in-an-org" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/oslogin/manage-oslogin-in-an-org" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/oslogin/manage-oslogin-in-an-org" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage OS Login in an organization</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/oslogin/view-audit-logs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/oslogin/view-audit-logs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/oslogin/view-audit-logs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor OS Login audit logs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/permissions-tutorial" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/permissions-tutorial" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/permissions-tutorial" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure granular access within VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Windows VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/generating-credentials" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/generating-credentials" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/generating-credentials" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage accounts and credentials on Windows VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/automate-pw-generation" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/automate-pw-generation" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/automate-pw-generation" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Automate Windows password generation</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manually manage SSH keys</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/create-ssh-keys" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/create-ssh-keys" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/create-ssh-keys" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create SSH keys</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/add-ssh-keys" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/add-ssh-keys" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/add-ssh-keys" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add SSH keys to VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/restrict-ssh-keys" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/restrict-ssh-keys" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/restrict-ssh-keys" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Restrict SSH keys from VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practices for securing SSH access</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/network-access" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/network-access" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/network-access" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Control network access</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/login-access" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/login-access" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/login-access" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Control SSH login access</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/credentials" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/credentials" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/credentials" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Protect SSH credentials</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/auditing" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/auditing" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/connect/ssh-best-practices/auditing" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Audit SSH access</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tag-resources" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tag-resources" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tag-resources" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage tags for resources</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Transfer files to or from a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/transfer-files" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Transfer files to Linux VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/transfer-files-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Transfer files to Windows VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/ip-addresses" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/ip-addresses" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/ip-addresses" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>IP addresses</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Internal DNS</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/internal-dns" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/internal-dns" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/internal-dns" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Overview of internal DNS</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/networking/using-internal-dns" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/networking/using-internal-dns" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/networking/using-internal-dns" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Access VMs using internal DNS names</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use zonal DNS</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/networking/zonal-dns" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/networking/zonal-dns" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/networking/zonal-dns" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Overview of zonal DNS</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/networking/use-zonal-dns" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/networking/use-zonal-dns" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/networking/use-zonal-dns" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set zonal DNS as the default</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/networking/migrate-to-zonal-dns" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/networking/migrate-to-zonal-dns" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/networking/migrate-to-zonal-dns" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Migrate to zonal DNS</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-ptr-record" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-ptr-record" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-ptr-record" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a PTR record for a VM</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/verifying-instance-identity" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/verifying-instance-identity" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/verifying-instance-identity" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Verify VM identity</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage storage</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Choose a disk type</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Disk types</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/hyperdisks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/hyperdisks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/hyperdisks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Hyperdisk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/storage-pools" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/storage-pools" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/storage-pools" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Hyperdisk Storage Pools</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Persistent Disk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/extreme-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/extreme-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/extreme-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Extreme Persistent Disk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/local-ssd" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Local SSD</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure storage pools</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/create-storage-pools" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/create-storage-pools" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/create-storage-pools" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a storage pool</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/manage-storage-pools" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/manage-storage-pools" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/manage-storage-pools" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage storage pools</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure disks</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add disks to VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/use-storage-pool-capacity" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/use-storage-pool-capacity" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/use-storage-pool-capacity" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add disks from a storage pool to VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/add-local-ssd" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/add-local-ssd" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/add-local-ssd" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a VM with Local SSD disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-with-additional-non-boot-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-vm-with-additional-non-boot-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-with-additional-non-boot-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a VM with additional non-boot disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/add-hyperdisk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/add-hyperdisk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/add-hyperdisk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a new Hyperdisk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a new Persistent Disk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/sharing-disks-between-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/sharing-disks-between-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/sharing-disks-between-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Share a disk between VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/attach-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/attach-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/attach-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Attach a disk to a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/mount-ram-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/mount-ram-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/mount-ram-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Mount in-memory RAM disks</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Prepare disks for use</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/format-mount-disk-linux" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/format-mount-disk-linux" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/format-mount-disk-linux" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Format and mount a non-boot disk on Linux</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/format-mount-disk-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/format-mount-disk-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/format-mount-disk-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Format and prepare a non-boot disk on Windows</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Access disks attached to a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/set-persistent-device-name-in-linux-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/set-persistent-device-name-in-linux-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/set-persistent-device-name-in-linux-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practice: Use persistent device names</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/disk-symlinks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/disk-symlinks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/disk-symlinks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Symbolic links to disks</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Transfer data to disks attached to a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/transfer-files" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Transfer files to Linux VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/transfer-files-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/transfer-files-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Transfer files to Windows VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Encrypt disks</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/disk-encryption" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/disk-encryption" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/disk-encryption" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About disk encryption</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplied-encryption" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/customer-supplied-encryption" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplied-encryption" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Encrypt disks with customer-supplied encryption keys</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/customer-managed-encryption" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/customer-managed-encryption" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/customer-managed-encryption" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Help protect resources by using Cloud KMS keys</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Modify disks</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/modify-hyperdisks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/modify-hyperdisks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/modify-hyperdisks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Modify Hyperdisk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/migrate-to-hyperdisk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/migrate-to-hyperdisk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/migrate-to-hyperdisk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Change the disk type</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/resize-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/resize-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/resize-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Increase the size of a Persistent Disk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/modify-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/modify-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/modify-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Modify a Persistent Disk</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Evaluate disk performance</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/performance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/performance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/performance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure disks to meet performance requirements</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Review disk performance</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/review-storage-pool-metrics" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/review-storage-pool-metrics" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/review-storage-pool-metrics" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Review storage pool metrics</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/review-disk-metrics" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/review-disk-metrics" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/review-disk-metrics" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Review disk performance metrics</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/analyze-iops-hyperdisk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/analyze-iops-hyperdisk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/analyze-iops-hyperdisk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Analyze provisioned IOPS and throughput</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Benchmark disk performance</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/benchmark-hyperdisk-performance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/benchmark-hyperdisk-performance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/benchmark-hyperdisk-performance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Benchmark Hyperdisk performance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-pd-performance-linux" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-pd-performance-linux" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-pd-performance-linux" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Benchmark Persistent Disk performance on a Linux VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-pd-performance-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-pd-performance-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-pd-performance-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Benchmark Persistent Disk performance on a Windows VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-local-ssd-performance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-local-ssd-performance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-local-ssd-performance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Benchmark Local SSD performance</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Make disks highly available</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/about" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/about" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/about" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/configure" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/configure" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/configure" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure replication</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-replication" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-replication" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-replication" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage replication</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/failover-failback" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/failover-failback" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/failover-failback" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Failover and failback disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-async-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-async-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-async-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage asynchronous disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-consistency-groups" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-consistency-groups" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/manage-consistency-groups" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage consistency groups</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/performance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/async-pd/performance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/performance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Review performance metrics</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Cross-zonal synchronous disk replication</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/about-regional-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/about-regional-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/about-regional-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About regional disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/high-availability-regional-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/high-availability-regional-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/high-availability-regional-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Build high availability services using regional disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/design-considerations-for-resilient-workloads-with-regional-persistent-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/design-considerations-for-resilient-workloads-with-regional-persistent-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/design-considerations-for-resilient-workloads-with-regional-persistent-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Design considerations for resilient workloads with regional disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/regional-persistent-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/regional-persistent-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/regional-persistent-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and manage regional disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/repd-failover" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/repd-failover" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/repd-failover" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage failures for regional disks</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Back up and restore</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/data-protection" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/data-protection" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/data-protection" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Data protection options</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Back up VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use machine images</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/machine-images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/machine-images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/machine-images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About machine images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/machine-images/create-machine-images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/machine-images/create-machine-images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/machine-images/create-machine-images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create machine images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/machine-images/import-machine-from-virtual-appliance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/machine-images/import-machine-from-virtual-appliance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/machine-images/import-machine-from-virtual-appliance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Import machine images from virtual appliances</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-instance-with-gcbdr-backup-plan" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-instance-with-gcbdr-backup-plan" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-instance-with-gcbdr-backup-plan" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use back up plans</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Back up disks</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Back up a disk in place</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/instant-snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/instant-snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/instant-snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About instant snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/create-instant-snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/create-instant-snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/create-instant-snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and manage instant snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/convert-instant-snapshot" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/convert-instant-snapshot" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/convert-instant-snapshot" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Copy an instant snapshot to a different location</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Back up a disk for disaster recovery</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About disk snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practices for disk snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-settings" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/snapshot-settings" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-settings" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set default storage location using snapshot settings</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create disk snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/manage-snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/manage-snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/manage-snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage disk snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create application consistent snapshots</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/creating-linux-application-consistent-pd-snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/creating-linux-application-consistent-pd-snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/creating-linux-application-consistent-pd-snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create Linux application consistent snapshots</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-windows-persistent-disk-snapshot" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-windows-persistent-disk-snapshot" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/creating-windows-persistent-disk-snapshot" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a Windows disk snapshot (VSS snapshots)</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Schedule disk backups</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/about-snapshot-schedules" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/about-snapshot-schedules" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/about-snapshot-schedules" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About snapshot schedules</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create snapshot schedules</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/manage-snapshot-schedules" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/manage-snapshot-schedules" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/manage-snapshot-schedules" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage snapshot schedules</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/create-alert-snapshot-schedule" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/create-alert-snapshot-schedule" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/create-alert-snapshot-schedule" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure alerts for snapshot schedules</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/clone-duplicate-disks" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/clone-duplicate-disks" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/clone-duplicate-disks" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Duplicate a disk with clones</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Restore from a backup</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/machine-images/create-instance-from-machine-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/machine-images/create-instance-from-machine-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/machine-images/create-instance-from-machine-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create VMs from machine images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/restore-snapshot" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/restore-snapshot" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/restore-snapshot" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Restore from a standard snapshot</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/restore-instant-snapshot" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/restore-instant-snapshot" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/restore-instant-snapshot" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Restore from an instant snapshot</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/recover-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/recover-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/recover-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Recover a VM with a corrupted or full disk</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage VMs</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Basic operations and lifecycle</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/instance-lifecycle" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/instance-lifecycle" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/instance-lifecycle" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>VM instance lifecycle</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Schedule VM operations</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/schedule-instance-start-stop" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/schedule-instance-start-stop" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/schedule-instance-start-stop" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Schedule a VM to start and stop</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/limit-vm-runtime" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/limit-vm-runtime" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/limit-vm-runtime" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Limit the run time of a VM</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View VM properties</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/detect-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/detect-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/detect-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Detect if a VM is running in Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/get-list" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/get-list" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/get-list" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Get a list of VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-vm-details" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-vm-details" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-vm-details" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Get the details of a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/get-uuid" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/get-uuid" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/get-uuid" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Get the UUID of a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-vm-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-vm-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-vm-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View the source image of a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-references-between-resources" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-references-between-resources" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-references-between-resources" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View referrers to VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-network-properties" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-network-properties" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-network-properties" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View network configuration of an instance</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-visible-cores" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-visible-cores" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-visible-cores" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View the number of visible CPU cores</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Stop or suspend a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/suspend-stop-reset-instances-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/suspend-stop-reset-instances-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/suspend-stop-reset-instances-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Stop or suspend VMs overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/stop-start-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/stop-start-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/stop-start-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Stop or restart a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable devsite-nav-preview"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Gracefully shut down a VM</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/graceful-shutdown-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/graceful-shutdown-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/graceful-shutdown-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Graceful shutdown overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/enable-graceful-shutdown" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/enable-graceful-shutdown" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/enable-graceful-shutdown" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Enable graceful shutdown</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-graceful-shutdown" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-graceful-shutdown" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-graceful-shutdown" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View graceful shutdown</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/disable-graceful-shutdown" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/disable-graceful-shutdown" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/disable-graceful-shutdown" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Disable graceful shutdown</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resume-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/suspend-resume-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resume-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Suspend or resume a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reset-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reset-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reset-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Reset a VM</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Update VM details</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/rename-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/rename-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/rename-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Rename a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/update-instance-properties" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/update-instance-properties" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/update-instance-properties" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Update VM properties</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/changing-machine-type-of-stopped-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/changing-machine-type-of-stopped-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/changing-machine-type-of-stopped-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Edit the machine type of a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/add-remove-gpus" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/add-remove-gpus" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/add-remove-gpus" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add or remove GPUs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/change-service-account" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/change-service-account" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/change-service-account" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Change the attached service account</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Update the physical location of a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/placement-policies-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/placement-policies-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/placement-policies-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About placement policies</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-spread-placement-policies" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/use-spread-placement-policies" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/use-spread-placement-policies" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and apply spread placement policies to VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-placement-policies" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-placement-policies" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-placement-policies" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View placement policies</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/manage-placement-policies" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/manage-placement-policies" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/manage-placement-policies" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Remove or delete placement policies</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure IP addresses</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-static-external-ip-address" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-static-external-ip-address" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-static-external-ip-address" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure static external IP addresses</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-static-internal-ip-address" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-static-internal-ip-address" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-static-internal-ip-address" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure static internal IP addresses</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-ipv6-address" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-ipv6-address" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-ipv6-address" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure IPv6 for instances and instance templates</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Delete VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/deleting-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/deleting-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/deleting-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Delete a VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/preventing-accidental-vm-deletion" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/preventing-accidental-vm-deletion" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/preventing-accidental-vm-deletion" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Prevent accidental VM deletion</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/updating-vm-tenancy" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/updating-vm-tenancy" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/updating-vm-tenancy" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Update VM tenancy</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage groups of VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/working-with-managed-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/working-with-managed-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/working-with-managed-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Work with managed VMs in a MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/getting-info-about-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/getting-info-about-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/getting-info-about-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View info about MIGs and managed instances</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/add-remove-vms-in-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/add-remove-vms-in-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/add-remove-vms-in-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add or remove VMs in a MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/limit-vm-runtime-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/limit-vm-runtime-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/limit-vm-runtime-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Limit the run time of VMs in a MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add GPU VMs all at once in a MIG</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/about-resize-requests-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/about-resize-requests-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/about-resize-requests-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About resize requests</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-resize-requests-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/create-resize-requests-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/create-resize-requests-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create resize requests</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/manage-resize-requests-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/manage-resize-requests-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/manage-resize-requests-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View, cancel, or delete resize requests</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure instance flexibility in a MIG</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/about-instance-flexibility" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/about-instance-flexibility" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/about-instance-flexibility" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About instance flexibility</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configure-instance-flexibility" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/configure-instance-flexibility" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configure-instance-flexibility" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add instance flexibility</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/view-instance-flexibility-configuration" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/view-instance-flexibility-configuration" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/view-instance-flexibility-configuration" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View instance flexibility</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/change-or-remove-instance-flexibility-configuration" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/change-or-remove-instance-flexibility-configuration" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/change-or-remove-instance-flexibility-configuration" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Change or remove instance flexibility</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Distribute VMs across zones in a regional MIG</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About regional MIGs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-distribution-shape" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-distribution-shape" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-distribution-shape" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About target distribution shape</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-set-target-distribution-shape" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-set-target-distribution-shape" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-set-target-distribution-shape" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set a target distribution for VMs across zones</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-enable-disable-proactive-redistribution" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-enable-disable-proactive-redistribution" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-enable-disable-proactive-redistribution" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Disable and reenable proactive instance redistribution</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-rebalance-manually" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-rebalance-manually" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-rebalance-manually" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manually rebalance a regional MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-simulate-zonal-outage" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-simulate-zonal-outage" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/regional-mig-simulate-zonal-outage" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Simulate a zone outage for a regional MIG</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Work with suspended and stopped VMs in a MIG</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/suspended-and-stopped-vms-in-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/suspended-and-stopped-vms-in-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/suspended-and-stopped-vms-in-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/manually-suspend-or-stop-vms-in-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/manually-suspend-or-stop-vms-in-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/manually-suspend-or-stop-vms-in-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manually suspend or stop VMs in a MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/accelerate-mig-scale-out-with-standby-pools" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/accelerate-mig-scale-out-with-standby-pools" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/accelerate-mig-scale-out-with-standby-pools" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Accelerate scale out with suspended and stopped VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Apply new VM configurations in a MIG</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About applying new VM configurations to VMs in a MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/rolling-out-updates-to-managed-instance-groups" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/rolling-out-updates-to-managed-instance-groups" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/rolling-out-updates-to-managed-instance-groups" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Automatically apply VM configuration updates</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-selected-instances-in-a-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-selected-instances-in-a-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-selected-instances-in-a-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Selectively apply VM configuration updates</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/update-on-repair" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/update-on-repair" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/update-on-repair" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Apply configuration updates during repairs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/set-mig-aic" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/set-mig-aic" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/set-mig-aic" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Override instance template properties with an all-instances configuration</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/upgrading-images-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/upgrading-images-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/upgrading-images-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Perform one-click OS image upgrades</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Maintain high availability during VM failures</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/about-repair" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/about-repair" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/about-repair" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About repairing VMs for high availability</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Repair a VM when an application fails</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/autohealing-instances-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/autohealing-instances-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/autohealing-instances-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up an application-based health check and autohealing</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/monitoring-managed-instance-health-state-changes" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/monitoring-managed-instance-health-state-changes" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/monitoring-managed-instance-health-state-changes" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor VM health state changes</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/disabling-and-enabling-health-state-change-logs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/disabling-and-enabling-health-state-change-logs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/disabling-and-enabling-health-state-change-logs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Disable and enable health state change logs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/turn-off-vm-repairs-in-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/turn-off-vm-repairs-in-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/turn-off-vm-repairs-in-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Turn off repairs in a MIG</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Support a stateful workload with a MIG</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/stateful-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/stateful-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/stateful-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About stateful MIGs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure stateful MIGs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure a stateful MIG</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-disks-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-disks-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-disks-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure stateful persistent disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-metadata-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-metadata-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-metadata-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure stateful metadata</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-ip-addresses-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-ip-addresses-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/configuring-stateful-ip-addresses-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure stateful IP addresses</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/applying-viewing-removing-stateful-config-in-migs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/applying-viewing-removing-stateful-config-in-migs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/applying-viewing-removing-stateful-config-in-migs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Apply, view, and remove stateful configuration</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/how-stateful-migs-work" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/how-stateful-migs-work" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/how-stateful-migs-work" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>How stateful MIGs work</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/preserved-state" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/preserved-state" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/preserved-state" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>How operations affect preserved state</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Group VMs together</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/migrate-workload-to-stateful-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/migrate-workload-to-stateful-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/migrate-workload-to-stateful-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Migrate an existing workload to a stateful managed instance group</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-unmanaged-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-unmanaged-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-unmanaged-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Group unmanaged VMs together</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/delete-mig" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/delete-mig" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/delete-mig" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Delete a MIG</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Host maintenance events</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/host-maintenance-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/host-maintenance-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/host-maintenance-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About host events</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/live-migration-process" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/live-migration-process" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/live-migration-process" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Live migration process</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/setting-vm-host-options" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/setting-vm-host-options" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/setting-vm-host-options" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set the host maintenance policy</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/metadata/getting-live-migration-notice" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/metadata/getting-live-migration-notice" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/metadata/getting-live-migration-notice" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Query metadata server for notices</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/simulating-host-maintenance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/simulating-host-maintenance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/simulating-host-maintenance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Simulate a host maintenance event</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/gpu-host-maintenance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/gpu-host-maintenance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/gpu-host-maintenance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Handle GPU host maintenance events</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/monitor-plan-host-maintenance-event" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/monitor-plan-host-maintenance-event" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/monitor-plan-host-maintenance-event" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor and plan for a host maintenance event</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/trigger-host-maintenance-event" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/trigger-host-maintenance-event" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/trigger-host-maintenance-event" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manually start host maintenance</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage metadata</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/metadata/overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/metadata/overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/metadata/overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About VM metadata</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/metadata/predefined-metadata-keys" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/metadata/predefined-metadata-keys" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/metadata/predefined-metadata-keys" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Predefined metadata keys</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/metadata/setting-custom-metadata" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/metadata/setting-custom-metadata" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/metadata/setting-custom-metadata" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set and remove custom metadata</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/metadata/querying-metadata" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/metadata/querying-metadata" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/metadata/querying-metadata" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View and query VM metadata</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/metadata/manage-guest-attributes" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/metadata/manage-guest-attributes" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/metadata/manage-guest-attributes" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set and query guest attributes</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Securing VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/about-shielded-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/about-shielded-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/about-shielded-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Shielded VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/about-confidential-vm" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/about-confidential-vm" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/about-confidential-vm" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About Confidential VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/protecting-resources-vpc-service-controls" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/protecting-resources-vpc-service-controls" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/protecting-resources-vpc-service-controls" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Protect resources with VPC Service Controls</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage operating systems</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Guest environment</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/guest-environment" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/guest-environment" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/guest-environment" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About the guest environment</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/install-guest-environment" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/install-guest-environment" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/install-guest-environment" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Install the guest environment</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/vm-manager" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/vm-manager" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/vm-manager" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage operating systems using VM Manager</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage OS images</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/image-management-best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/image-management-best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/image-management-best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Image management best practices</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/image-families-best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/image-families-best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/image-families-best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Image families best practices</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/premium/access-rhel-knowledgebase" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/premium/access-rhel-knowledgebase" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/premium/access-rhel-knowledgebase" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Access Red Hat Knowledgebase</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/managing-access-custom-images" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/managing-access-custom-images" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/managing-access-custom-images" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage access to custom images</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/restricting-image-access" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/restricting-image-access" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/restricting-image-access" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up trusted image policies</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/export-image" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/export-image" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/export-image" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Export a custom image to Cloud Storage</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/set-version-custom" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/set-version-custom" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/set-version-custom" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set image versions in an image family</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/deprecate-custom" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/deprecate-custom" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/deprecate-custom" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deprecate a custom image</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/images/delete-custom" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/delete-custom" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/delete-custom" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Delete a custom image</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/artifact-registry-os-packages" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/artifact-registry-os-packages" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/artifact-registry-os-packages" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage OS packages</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage licenses</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/licenses/about" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/licenses/about" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/licenses/about" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About licenses</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/licenses/view-append" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/licenses/view-append" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/licenses/view-append" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View and append licenses</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/images/premium/rhel/appending-els-licenses" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/premium/rhel/appending-els-licenses" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/premium/rhel/appending-els-licenses" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Append RHEL ELS licenses</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro/upgrade-from-ubuntu" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro/upgrade-from-ubuntu" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro/upgrade-from-ubuntu" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Upgrade from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Pro</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use startup scripts</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Startup scripts overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/linux" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/linux" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/linux" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use startup scripts on Linux VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use startup scripts on Windows VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/shutdownscript" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/shutdownscript" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/shutdownscript" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Run shutdown scripts</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/configure-ntp" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/configure-ntp" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/configure-ntp" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure NTP</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/enabling-virtio-rng" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/enabling-virtio-rng" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/enabling-virtio-rng" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Enable the virtual random number generator (Virtio RNG)</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploy workloads</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up authentication for workloads</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/app-authentication-methods" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/app-authentication-methods" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/app-authentication-methods" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Choose a workload authentication method</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/access/authenticate-workloads" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/authenticate-workloads" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/authenticate-workloads" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Authenticate workloads to Google Cloud API using service accounts</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/access/authenticate-workloads-over-mtls" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/access/authenticate-workloads-over-mtls" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/access/authenticate-workloads-over-mtls" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Authenticate workloads to other workloads over mTLS</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Web servers</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-apache" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-apache" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-apache" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploy an Apache server</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-iis" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-iis" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-iis" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploy an IIS server</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/docs/terraform/get-started-with-terraform" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /docs/terraform/get-started-with-terraform" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/docs/terraform/get-started-with-terraform" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploy a Flask server by using Terraform</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Applications</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/getting-started?walkthrough_tutorial_id=compute_quickstart" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: https://console.cloud.google.com/getting-started?walkthrough_tutorial_id=compute_quickstart" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="https://console.cloud.google.com/getting-started?walkthrough_tutorial_id=compute_quickstart" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Interactive: Build a to-do app with MongoDB</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/deploy-aspnet-app" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/deploy-aspnet-app" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/deploy-aspnet-app" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploy an ASP.NET application</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/community/tutorials/joomla-on-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /community/tutorials/joomla-on-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/community/tutorials/joomla-on-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up Joomla</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/community/tutorials/setting-up-lamp" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /community/tutorials/setting-up-lamp" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/community/tutorials/setting-up-lamp" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up LAMP</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/build/docs/deploying-builds/deploy-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /build/docs/deploying-builds/deploy-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/build/docs/deploying-builds/deploy-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Perform blue/green deployments using Cloud Build</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Send email from a VM</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About sending email</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-sendgrid" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-sendgrid" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-sendgrid" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Send email with SendGrid</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailgun" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailgun" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailgun" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Send email with Mailgun</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailjet" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailjet" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailjet" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Send email with Mailjet</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Databases</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>MySQL</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/setup-mysql" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/setup-mysql" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/setup-mysql" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up MySQL on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/mysql-remote-access" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/mysql-remote-access" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/mysql-remote-access" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up client access with a private IP address</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/cloning-a-mysql-database-on-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/cloning-a-mysql-database-on-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/cloning-a-mysql-database-on-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Cloning a MySQL database on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/deploying-highly-available-mysql-cluster-with-drbd-on-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/deploying-highly-available-mysql-cluster-with-drbd-on-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/deploying-highly-available-mysql-cluster-with-drbd-on-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploying a highly available MySQL 5.6 cluster with DRBD on Compute Engine</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>PostgreSQL</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up PostgreSQL on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres-data-disk" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres-data-disk" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres-data-disk" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up a PostgreSQL data disk</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres-hot-standby" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres-hot-standby" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/community/tutorials/setting-up-postgres-hot-standby" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up PostgreSQL with hot standby</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>SQL Server</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practices for SQL Server VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/creating-high-performance-sql-server-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/creating-high-performance-sql-server-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/creating-high-performance-sql-server-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a high-performance SQL Server VM</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/adding-sql-server-license-to-linux" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/adding-sql-server-license-to-linux" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/adding-sql-server-license-to-linux" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add a SQL Server license to an existing Linux server</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/adding-sql-server-license" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/adding-sql-server-license" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/adding-sql-server-license" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add a SQL Server license to an existing Windows server</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/creating-sql-server-instance-using-netapp" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/creating-sql-server-instance-using-netapp" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/creating-sql-server-instance-using-netapp" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Volumes Service</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-availability" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-availability" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-availability" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up AlwaysOn availability groups using an internal load balancer</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-availability-dnn" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-availability-dnn" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-availability-dnn" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up AlwaysOn availability groups using a distributed network name</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-failover-cluster-instance" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-failover-cluster-instance" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-failover-cluster-instance" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up a failover cluster VM that uses S2D</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-failover-cluster-instance-pd-multi-writer" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-failover-cluster-instance-pd-multi-writer" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/configure-failover-cluster-instance-pd-multi-writer" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up a failover cluster VM with multi-writer persistent disks</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-linux-pacemaker" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-linux-pacemaker" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-linux-pacemaker" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up a SQL Server cluster on Linux with Alaways On availability groups and Pacemaker</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/cloning-a-microsoft-sql-server-database-on-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/cloning-a-microsoft-sql-server-database-on-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/cloning-a-microsoft-sql-server-database-on-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Cloning a Microsoft SQL Server database on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/load-testing-sql-server-hammerdb" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/load-testing-sql-server-hammerdb" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/load-testing-sql-server-hammerdb" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Load test SQL Server using HammerDB</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/disaster-recovery-for-microsoft-sql-server" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/disaster-recovery-for-microsoft-sql-server" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/disaster-recovery-for-microsoft-sql-server" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Disaster recovery for Microsoft SQL Server</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/dr-for-microsoft-sql-server-with-async-pd" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/dr-for-microsoft-sql-server-with-async-pd" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/dr-for-microsoft-sql-server-with-async-pd" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Disaster recovery for Microsoft SQL Server with Async PD</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/deploying-microsoft-sql-server-multi-regional-disaster-recovery" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/sql-server/deploying-microsoft-sql-server-multi-regional-disaster-recovery" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/deploying-microsoft-sql-server-multi-regional-disaster-recovery" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deploying Microsoft SQL Server for multi-regional disaster recovery</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Redis</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/redis/deployment-options" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/redis/deployment-options" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/redis/deployment-options" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Deployment Options for Redis on Google Cloud </span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Containers</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/containers" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/containers" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/containers" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Containers on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/containers/deploying-containers" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: 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role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>OpenShift workloads</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/containers/openshift-ha" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/containers/openshift-ha" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/containers/openshift-ha" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practices for high availability with OpenShift</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Microsoft Windows</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Windows workloads</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/windows/windows-best-practices" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/windows/windows-best-practices" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/windows/windows-best-practices" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Best practices for Windows Server VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/setup-active-directory" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" 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Exchange Server 2016 on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Windows Server</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/performing-in-place-upgrade-windows-server" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/performing-in-place-upgrade-windows-server" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/performing-in-place-upgrade-windows-server" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Perform an in-place upgrade of Windows Server</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-beta"><a 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class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Machine learning</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/ml-inference-t4" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/ml-inference-t4" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/ml-inference-t4" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Run TensorFlow inference workloads with TensorRT5 and NVIDIA T4 GPU</span></a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor logs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/logging/audit-logging" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/logging/audit-logging" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/logging/audit-logging" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View audit logs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/logging/usage-export" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/logging/usage-export" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/logging/usage-export" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View usage reports</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a 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gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/determining-server-usage" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/determining-server-usage" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor VM and sole-tenant node usage</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/observe-monitor-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/observe-monitor-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/observe-monitor-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Observe and monitor VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor GPU performance</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/monitor-gpus" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/monitor-gpus" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/monitor-gpus" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor GPU performance on Linux VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/monitor-gpus-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/monitor-gpus-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/gpus/monitor-gpus-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor GPU performance on Windows VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor disks</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/disk-health" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/disks/disk-health" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/disks/disk-health" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Monitor disk health</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/disks/monitor-regional-persistent-disk-replica-state" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: 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track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/labeling-resources" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Organize resources using labels</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Scale</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Autoscale groups of VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About autoscaling groups of VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create and manage autoscalers</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cpu" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cpu" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cpu" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Scale based on CPU utilization</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/predictive-autoscaling" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/predictive-autoscaling" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/predictive-autoscaling" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Scale based on predictions</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-load-balancing" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-load-balancing" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-load-balancing" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Scale based on load balancing serving capacity</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cloud-monitoring-metrics" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cloud-monitoring-metrics" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cloud-monitoring-metrics" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Scale based on Monitoring metrics</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-schedules" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-schedules" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-schedules" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Scale based on schedules</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/multiple-signals" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/multiple-signals" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/multiple-signals" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use an autoscaling policy with multiple signals</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/managing-autoscalers" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/managing-autoscalers" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/managing-autoscalers" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage autoscalers</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/understanding-autoscaler-decisions" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/understanding-autoscaler-decisions" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/understanding-autoscaler-decisions" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Understand autoscaler decisions</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/autoscaler/viewing-autoscaler-logs" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/autoscaler/viewing-autoscaler-logs" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/autoscaler/viewing-autoscaler-logs" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View autoscaler logs</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/nodes/autoscaling-node-groups" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/nodes/autoscaling-node-groups" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/nodes/autoscaling-node-groups" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Autoscale node groups</span></a></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Reserve VM capacity</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About reservations</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>On-demand reservations</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create an on-demand reservation</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>For a single project</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>For multiple projects</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-with-commitments" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-with-commitments" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-with-commitments" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Combine an on-demand reservation with a CUD</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-modify" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-modify" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-modify" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Modify an on-demand reservation</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-delete" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-delete" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-delete" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Delete an on-demand reservation</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable devsite-nav-preview"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Future reservations</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/future-reservations-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/future-reservations-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/future-reservations-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About future reservations</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Create a reservation request</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-single-project-future-reservations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-single-project-future-reservations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-single-project-future-reservations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>For a single project</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-shared-future-reservations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/create-shared-future-reservations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/create-shared-future-reservations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>For multiple projects</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/modify-future-reservations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/modify-future-reservations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/modify-future-reservations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Modify a reservation request</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/delete-future-reservations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/delete-future-reservations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/delete-future-reservations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Delete a reservation request</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-view" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-view" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-view" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View reservations or reservation requests</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-consume" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservations-consume" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-consume" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Consume a reservation</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Load balancing</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/load-balancing-and-autoscaling" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/load-balancing-and-autoscaling" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/load-balancing-and-autoscaling" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>About load balancing and scaling</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/adding-an-instance-group-to-a-load-balancer" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/adding-an-instance-group-to-a-load-balancer" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/adding-an-instance-group-to-a-load-balancer" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Add an instance group to a load balancer</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Request routing to a multi-region external HTTPS load balancer</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/http-load-balancing-iis" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/http-load-balancing-iis" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/http-load-balancing-iis" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Cross-region load balancing for Microsoft IIS backends</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-internal" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-internal" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-internal" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Set up Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Build reliable and scalable applications</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-autohealing" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-autohealing" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-autohealing" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use autohealing for highly available applications</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-load-balancing" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-load-balancing" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-availability-load-balancing" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use load balancing for highly available applications</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-scalability-autoscaling" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/high-scalability-autoscaling" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/high-scalability-autoscaling" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use autoscaling for highly scalable applications</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/tutorials/globally-autoscaling-a-web-service-on-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/tutorials/globally-autoscaling-a-web-service-on-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/tutorials/globally-autoscaling-a-web-service-on-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Globally autoscale a web service on Compute Engine</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/architecture/scalable-and-resilient-apps" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /architecture/scalable-and-resilient-apps" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/architecture/scalable-and-resilient-apps" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Patterns for scalable and resilient applications</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/architecture/patterns-for-floating-ip-addresses-in-compute-engine" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /architecture/patterns-for-floating-ip-addresses-in-compute-engine" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/architecture/patterns-for-floating-ip-addresses-in-compute-engine" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Patterns for using floating IP addresses on Compute Engine</span></a></li></ul></div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-heading"><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Optimize</span> </div></li> <li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Resource utilization</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use recommendations to manage resources</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/apply-machine-type-recommendations-for-instances" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/apply-machine-type-recommendations-for-instances" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/apply-machine-type-recommendations-for-instances" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Apply machine type recommendations to VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/configure-machine-type-recommendations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/configure-machine-type-recommendations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/configure-machine-type-recommendations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure machine type recommendations</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/apply-machine-type-recommendations-managed-instance-groups" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/apply-machine-type-recommendations-managed-instance-groups" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/apply-machine-type-recommendations-managed-instance-groups" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Apply machine type recommendations to MIGs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/viewing-and-applying-idle-resources-recommendations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/viewing-and-applying-idle-resources-recommendations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/viewing-and-applying-idle-resources-recommendations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View and apply idle resources recommendations</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-and-understand-vm-insights" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/view-and-understand-vm-insights" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/view-and-understand-vm-insights" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View and understand VM insights</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instance-groups/view-and-understand-mig-insights" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instance-groups/view-and-understand-mig-insights" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instance-groups/view-and-understand-mig-insights" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View and understand MIG insights</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage idle VM recommendations</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/idle-vm-recommendations-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/idle-vm-recommendations-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/idle-vm-recommendations-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Idle VM recommendations overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>View and apply idle VM recommendations</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-preview"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/configuring-idle-vm-recommendations" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/configuring-idle-vm-recommendations" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/configuring-idle-vm-recommendations" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Configure idle VM recommendations</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable devsite-nav-preview"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage reservation recommendations</span><span class="devsite-nav-icon material-icons" data-icon="preview" data-title="Preview" aria-hidden="true"></span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservation-recommendations-overview" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/instances/reservation-recommendations-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/instances/reservation-recommendations-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Reservation recommendations overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/instances/view-and-apply-idle-reservation-recommendations" class="devsite-nav-title 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pathname: /compute/docs/pmu-overview" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/pmu-overview" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>PMU overview</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/enable-pmu-in-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/enable-pmu-in-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/enable-pmu-in-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Enable the PMU in VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/manage-pmu-in-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/manage-pmu-in-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/manage-pmu-in-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Manage the PMU in VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Accelerated workloads with GPUs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>GPUs on Compute Engine</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/gpus/about-gpus" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/gpus/about-gpus" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" 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aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Network performance</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/network-bandwidth" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/network-bandwidth" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/network-bandwidth" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Network bandwidth</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/networking/using-gvnic" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/networking/using-gvnic" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/networking/using-gvnic" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Use 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lockups</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Troubleshoot VM configurations</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-arm-vms" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-arm-vms" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-arm-vms" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Troubleshoot Arm VMs</span></a></li><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-gpus" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" 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tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Troubleshoot Windows VMs</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li class="devsite-nav-item"><a href="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-windows" class="devsite-nav-title gc-analytics-event" data-category="Site-Wide Custom Events" data-label="Book nav link, pathname: /compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-windows" track-type="bookNav" track-name="click" track-metadata-eventdetail="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-windows" ><span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Troubleshoot Windows VMs</span></a></li></ul></div></li><li class="devsite-nav-item devsite-nav-expandable"><div class="devsite-expandable-nav"> <a class="devsite-nav-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></a><div class="devsite-nav-title devsite-nav-title-no-path" tabindex="0" role="button"> <span class="devsite-nav-text" tooltip>Troubleshoot using the serial console</span> </div><ul class="devsite-nav-section"><li 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based on your preferences. </span> </devsite-feature-tooltip> <div class="devsite-page-title-meta"><devsite-view-release-notes></devsite-view-release-notes></div> <devsite-toc class="devsite-nav" depth="2" devsite-toc-embedded > </devsite-toc> <div class="devsite-article-body clearfix "> <hr class="cloud-divider"> <p>This document explains how to resolve issues with creating reservations. To learn more about reservations, see <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-overview">Reservations of Compute Engine zonal resources</a>.</p> <p>In addition to the errors on this page, reservation creation can also fail due to issues that happen when creating Compute Engine resources. If your issue is not listed on this page, then do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/create-start-instance">Create VMs</a> with the resources that you want to reserve.</p></li> <li><p>If you still encounter errors, then see <a href="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-vm-creation">Troubleshooting VM creation</a>.</p></li> </ol> <h2 id="creating-reservations" data-text="Reservation creation errors" tabindex="-1">Reservation creation errors</h2> <p>If you can't create a reservation, then it might be due to one of the errors in this section. If you can't create a shared reservation, then also review <a href="#errors-creating-shared-reservations">Shared reservation creation errors</a> in this document.</p> <h3 id="insufficient-quota" data-text="Insufficient quota" tabindex="-1">Insufficient quota</h3> <p>A quota error occurs when a resource request exceeds your quota.</p> <p><strong>Error messages:</strong></p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> <var translate="no">RESOURCE_NAME</var> creation failed: Quota <var translate="no">QUOTA_NAME</var> exceeded. Limit: <var translate="no">QUOTA_LIMIT</var> in region <var translate="no">REGION</var> </pre></devsite-code> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> <var translate="no">RESOURCE_NAME</var> creation failed: Quota <var translate="no">QUOTA_NAME</var> exceeded. Limit: <var translate="no">QUOTA_LIMIT</var> in zone <var translate="no">ZONE</var> </pre></devsite-code> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Resource exhausted (HTTP 429): QUOTA_EXCEEDED </pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution:</strong> Request a higher quota limit. For more information, see <a href="/compute/quotas#requesting_additional_quota">Requesting an increase in quota</a>.</p> <h3 id="resource-availability" data-text="Resource availability" tabindex="-1">Resource availability</h3> <p>To create a reservation, all the resources you specify in the reservation must be available in the specified in order for them to be reserved for you.</p> <p>The following are examples of common resource errors that you might encounter when you request new Compute Engine resources or create new reservations:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED </pre></devsite-code> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED_WITH_DETAILS </pre></devsite-code> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> The zone 'projects/<var translate="no">PROJECT_ID</var>/zones/<var translate="no">ZONE</var>' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later. </pre></devsite-code> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> A <var translate="no">VM_TYPE_AND_SIZE</var> VM instance with <var translate="no">RESOURCE_ATTACHMENT</var> is currently unavailable in the <var translate="no">ZONE</var> zone. Capacity changes frequently, so try your request in a different zone, with a different VM hardware configuration, or at a later time. For more options, see troubleshooting documentation. </pre></devsite-code> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> A <var translate="no">VM_TYPE_AND_SIZE</var> VM instance with <var translate="no">RESOURCE_ATTACHMENT</var> is currently unavailable in the <var translate="no">ZONE</var> zone, because of <var translate="no">REASON</var>. Consider trying your request in the <var translate="no">ZONE</var> zone(s), which currently has capacity to accommodate your request. If you cannot move your VM to <var translate="no">ZONE</var>, review the <var translate="no">REASON</var> failure resolution instructions available in troubleshooting documentation, then try your request again. If your workload can't accommodate the suggested resolution, try your request with a different VM hardware configuration or at a later time. </pre></devsite-code> <p>To learn how to resolve resource errors, see <a href="/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-resource-availability">Troubleshooting resource availability errors</a>.</p> <h3 id="zone-availability" data-text="Zone availability" tabindex="-1">Zone availability</h3> <p>If you receive a <code translate="no" dir="ltr">notFound</code> or <code translate="no" dir="ltr">does not exist in zone</code> error when requesting new resources, it means that the zone you are requesting the resource in does not offer the resource or machine type that you have requested.</p> <p><strong>Error messages</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> notFound </pre></devsite-code></p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> does not exist in zone </pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: See <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones">Regions and zones</a> to find out which features are available in each zone.</p> <h3 id="resource-name" data-text="Resource name" tabindex="-1">Resource name</h3> <p>If you receive a <code translate="no" dir="ltr">resource already exists</code> error when you try to create a resource, your creation request failed because you specified a non-unique name for the resource for the specified location and project.</p> <p><strong>Error messages</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> The resource 'projects/<var translate="no">PROJECT_NAME</var>/zones/<var translate="no">ZONE</var>/<var translate="no">RESOURCE_TYPE</var>/<var translate="no">RESOURCE_NAME</var>' already exists" </pre></devsite-code></p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> The resource 'projects/<var translate="no">PROJECT_NAME</var>/regions/<var translate="no">REGION</var>/<var translate="no">RESOURCE_TYPE</var>/<var translate="no">RESOURCE_NAME</var>' already exists" </pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Retry your creation request with a <a href="/compute/docs/naming-resources#name_uniqueness">unique resource name</a>.</p> <h3 id="max-vm-count-exceeded" data-text="Maximum VM count exceeded" tabindex="-1">Maximum VM count exceeded</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation for more than 1000 VMs.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Invalid value for field 'resource.specificReservation.count': <var translate="no">VM_COUNT</var>. Must be less than or equal to 1000 </pre></devsite-code> Where <var translate="no">VM_COUNT</var> is the number of VMs in a reservation.</p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Create multiple reservations with the same zone, project, and VM properties as this reservation, but reduce the number of VMs you want to reserve to up to 1000 VMs for each reservation.</p> <h3 id="reserving-a3-vms" data-text="Reserving A3 VMs" tabindex="-1">Reserving A3 VMs</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create an automatically consumed reservation of A3 VMs.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> The machine type <var translate="no">A3_MACHINE_TYPE</var> provided in instance properties is disallowed for reservations with ANY reservation affinity </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Starting from July 11, 2024, you can only reserve A3 VMs by creating <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-consume#consuming_instances_from_a_specific_reservation">specifically targeted reservations</a>.</p> <h2 id="errors-creating-shared-reservations" data-text="Shared reservation creation errors" tabindex="-1">Shared reservation creation errors</h2> <p>If you can't create a shared reservation, then it might be due to one of the errors in this section or in <a href="#creating-reservations">Reservation creation errors</a>.</p> <h3 id="shared-reservation-project-no-organization" data-text="Project without an organization" tabindex="-1">Project without an organization</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a shared reservation in a project that does not belong to an organization.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Cannot create Shared Reservations in a project that does not belong to an organization. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/resource-manager/docs/project-migration#migrating_projects_no_org">Migrate this project to an organization</a> before using it to create a shared reservation.</li> <li>Create a shared reservation using a project that belongs to an <a href="/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-organization">organization</a>.</li> </ul> <h3 id="shared-reservation-constraint-violation" data-text="Constraint violation" tabindex="-1">Constraint violation</h3> <p>The following error occurs when the <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#shared_reservation_constraint"><strong>Shared Reservations Owner Projects</strong> (<code translate="no" dir="ltr">compute.sharedReservationsOwnerProjects</code>) organization policy constraint</a> does not allow a project to create and modify shared reservations.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Constraint constraints/compute.sharedReservationsOwnerProjects violated for project projects/<var translate="no">PROJECT_NUMBER</var> Shared reservation can not be created in this project for your organization. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li>Use a project that is allowed to create and modify shared reservations. To see which projects in your organization have this permission, <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#viewing_the_shared_reservations_organization_policy_constraint">view the shared reservations organization policy constraint</a>.</li> <li>Grant the project permission to create and modify shared reservations by <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#editing_the_shared_reservations_organization_policy_constraint">editing the shared reservations organization policy constraint</a>. If you continue to see this error after editing, then you might just need to wait a few minutes for the edit to take effect.</li> </ul> <h3 id="invalid_consumer_projects" data-text="Invalid consumer projects" tabindex="-1">Invalid consumer projects</h3> <p>This section describes errors that occur when you specify invalid consumer projects for a shared reservation.</p> <h4 id="project-not-found" data-text="Project not found in this organization" tabindex="-1">Project not found in this organization</h4> <p>The following error occurs when the consumer project you specified can't be found in the same organization as the project you're using.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Project <var translate="no">PROJECT_ID</var> doesn't exist or doesn't belong to the same organization of the current project. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p>Where <var translate="no">PROJECT_ID</var> is a project ID that you specified as a consumer project.</p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do the following:</p> <ol> <li><a href="/resource-manager/docs/organization-resource-management#viewing_all_projects_in_an_organization">View all the projects in the organization</a> to verify that the specified consumer project exists in this organization.</li> <li><a href="/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects#identifying_projects">View the project</a> to verify that you specified its project ID, <var translate="no">PROJECT_ID</var>, correctly.</li> </ol> <h4 id="owner-project-specified-consumer-project" data-text="Owner project specified as a consumer project" tabindex="-1">Owner project specified as a consumer project</h4> <p>The following error occurs when you try to specify a shared reservation's owner project (the project used to create the shared reservation) as a consumer project.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Project <var translate="no">PROJECT_ID</var> which is the owner project of this reservation is always included in the share projects, please do not add it. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Remove the owner project from the list of consumer projects. A shared reservation can always be consumed by VMs in the owner project, so you cannot include it in the list of consumer projects.</p> <h4 id="zero-consumer-projects" data-text="Zero consumer projects" tabindex="-1">Zero consumer projects</h4> <p>The following error occurs when a shared reservation has zero consumer projects:</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Have to share with at least 1 project. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li>Specify at least one consumer project to share this reservation with. For more information, see <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#creating_a_shared_reservation">Create a shared reservation</a>.</li> <li>Use a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project">single-project reservation</a> instead of a shared reservation.</li> </ul> <h4 id="maximum-consumer-projects-exceeded" data-text="Maximum consumer projects exceeded" tabindex="-1">Maximum consumer projects exceeded</h4> <p>The following error occurs when a shared reservation has more than 100 consumer projects:</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Can only share with at most 100 projects. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do the following:</p> <ol> <li>Reduce the number of consumer projects to, at most, 100 consumer projects for the shared reservation.</li> <li>If you still need to reserve capacity for any omitted projects, then <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#creating_a_shared_reservation">create another shared reservation</a> that is shared with those projects.</li> </ol> <h3 id="max-shared-reservation-count-exceeded" data-text="Maximum shared reservation count exceeded" tabindex="-1">Maximum shared reservation count exceeded</h3> <p>The following error occurs when your organization already has 100 shared reservations with the same VM properties.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>: <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded> Cannot support more than 100 shared reservations of the same shape under an organization. </pre></devsite-code></p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Follow the <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#best_practices">best practice</a> of minimizing the number of separate shared reservations with the same <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-overview#requirements">VM properties</a> in your organization by doing the following:</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-modify#resizing_a_reservation">Resize existing reservations</a> to have larger VM counts. If you have multiple identical shared reservations that don't exceed the <a href="#max-vm-count-exceeded">maximum VM count</a>, then consider if you can combine them into fewer shared reservations with the same combined VM count.</p></li> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-modify#modifying-consumer-projects-shared-reservation">Modify the consumer projects for a shared reservation</a> to include more projects. For example, if you have multiple shared reservations with the same VM properties and zone but similar owner and consumer projects, consider if you can combine them into one shared reservation that can be consumed by all of these projects.</p></li> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-delete#deleting_a_reservation">Delete shared reservations</a> that you no longer need.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="creating-reservations-instance-template" data-text="Reservations from instance templates creation errors" tabindex="-1">Reservations from instance templates creation errors</h2> <p>If you fail to create a reservation by <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">specifying an instance template</a>, then it might be due to one of the errors in this section.</p> <h3 id="cross-referencing-instance-template" data-text="Cross project referencing is not allowed" tabindex="-1">Cross project referencing is not allowed</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an instance template from another project.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Cross project referencing is not allowed for this resource. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>Make sure that the project ID and instance template's name you specify in your reservation are correct. To check that an instance template exists, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#get_information_about_an_instance_template">get information about the template</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#list_instance_templates">list the template</a>.</p></li> <li><p>An instance template contains project-specific settings, so you can only access and use an instance template within the same project. Instead, do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><p>To create a reservation by specifying an instance template:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates#based-on-existing-template">Create a new instance template</a> within your project.</p></li> <li><p>Specify the newly created instance template when creating a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">single-project</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#specify-instance-template">shared reservation</a>.</p> <p><aside class="caution"> <p><b>Caution:</b> Create your reservation in the same region and zone as the resources within the instance template. Any <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources"> regional</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#zoneresource"> zonal resources</a> that are specified in an instance template—such as a machine type or a Persistent Disk—restrict the use of the template to the locations where those resources exist. For example, if your instance template specifies an existing Persistent Disk in <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1-a</code> zone, then you must create your reservation in the same zone. Otherwise, creating the reservation or the VMs that can consume the reservation fails.</p> <p>To check if an existing template specifies any resources that bind the template to a specific region or zone, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#get_information_about_an_instance_template"> get information about the instance template</a> and look for references to regional or zonal resources inside of it.</p> </aside></p></li> </ol></li> <li><p>To create a reservation without specifying an instance template, create a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-vm-properties">single-project</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#specify-vm-properties">shared reservation</a> by specifying VM properties directly.</p></li> </ul></li> </ol> <h3 id="instance-template-not-found" data-text="Instance template not found" tabindex="-1">Instance template not found</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an instance template that doesn't exist.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Source resource reference provided invalid. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Check if the name of the instance template you specified is correct. Then—<em>after</em> you <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#list_instance_templates">list instance templates</a> to check that your template doesn't exist and <em>only if</em> your project doesn't have another template that you want to use—you can <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates#create_a_new_instance_template">create a new instance template</a>.</p> <h3 id="invalid-local-ssd-size" data-text="Invalid Local SSD disk size" tabindex="-1">Invalid Local SSD disk size</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an instance template that includes one or more Local SSD disks, but the template doesn't specify the Local SSD disks' size.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Disk <var translate="no">LOCAL_SSD_NAME</var> provided in the instance template has invalid size: 0 GB. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: You can't update instance templates. Instead, do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>Create a new instance template and make sure to specify the <a href="/compute/docs/disks#localssds">disk size</a> of any Local SSD disks that you include in the template.</p></li> <li><p>Use the newly created instance template to create a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">single-project</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#specify-instance-template">shared reservation</a>.</p> <aside class="caution"> <p><b>Caution:</b> Create your reservation in the same region and zone as the resources within the instance template. Any <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources"> regional</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#zoneresource"> zonal resources</a> that are specified in an instance template—such as a machine type or a Persistent Disk—restrict the use of the template to the locations where those resources exist. For example, if your instance template specifies an existing disk in the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1-a</code> zone, then you must create your reservation in the same zone. Otherwise, creating the reservation or the VMs that can consume the reservation fails.</p> <p>To check if an existing template specifies any resources that bind the template to a specific region or zone, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#get_information_about_an_instance_template"> describe the instance template</a> and look for references to regional or zonal resources inside of it.</p> </aside></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the older instance template</a>.</p></li> </ol> <h3 id="invalid-zone-instance-template" data-text="Invalid zone for an instance template" tabindex="-1">Invalid zone for an instance template</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an instance template, and you specify an invalid location for your instance template.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Reservation cannot be created outside the zone/region of source resource. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><p>Make sure to create your reservation in the same region and zone as the resources within the instance template. Any <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources">regional</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#zoneresource">zonal resources</a> that are specified in an instance template—such as a machine type or a Persistent Disk—restrict the use of the template to the locations where those resources exist. For example, if your instance template specifies an existing Persistent Disk in the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1-a</code> zone, then you must create your reservation in the same zone. Otherwise, creating the reservation or the VMs that can consume the reservation fails.</p> <p>To check if an existing template specifies any resources that bind the template to a specific region or zone, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#get_information_about_an_instance_template">get information about the template</a> and look for references to regional or zonal resources inside of it.</p></li> <li><p>Use an instance template that doesn't restrict to a specific region or zone. Because you can't update instance templates, do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates#based-on-existing-template">Create a new instance template based on an existing template</a> with the updated properties.</p></li> <li><p>Create a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">single-project</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#specify-instance-template">shared reservation</a> by specifying the newly created instance template.</p> <aside class="caution"> <p><b>Caution:</b> Create your reservation in the same region and zone as the resources within the instance template. Any <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources"> regional</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#zoneresource"> zonal resources</a> that are specified in an instance template—such as a machine type or a Persistent Disk—restrict the use of the template to the locations where those resources exist. For example, if your instance template specifies an existing disk in the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1-a</code> zone, then you must create your reservation in the same zone. Otherwise, creating the reservation or the VMs that can consume the reservation fails.</p> <p>To check if an existing template specifies any resources that bind the template to a specific region or zone, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#get_information_about_an_instance_template"> describe the instance template</a> and look for references to regional or zonal resources inside of it.</p> </aside></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the older instance template</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> </ul> <h3 id="override-instance-template" data-text="Override instance template properties" tabindex="-1">Override instance template properties</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an instance template, and you specify both an instance template and VM properties when creating the reservation.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Reservation cannot override properties populated by source resource. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><p>To create a reservation by specifying an instance template, make sure to remove <em>any</em> field that specifies VM properties.</p></li> <li><p>To create a reservation by specifying an instance template with different VM properties, do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>You can't update an existing instance template. Instead, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates#based-on-existing-template">create a new instance template based on an existing template</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Specify the newly created instance template when creating a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">single-project</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#specify-instance-template">shared reservation</a>.</p> <aside class="caution"> <p><b>Caution:</b> Create your reservation in the same region and zone as the resources within the instance template. Any <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources"> regional</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#zoneresource"> zonal resources</a> that are specified in an instance template—such as a machine type or a Persistent Disk—restrict the use of the template to the locations where those resources exist. For example, if your instance template specifies an existing disk in the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1-a</code> zone, then you must create your reservation in the same zone. Otherwise, creating the reservation or the VMs that can consume the reservation fails.</p> <p>To check if an existing template specifies any resources that bind the template to a specific region or zone, <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#get_information_about_an_instance_template"> describe the instance template</a> and look for references to regional or zonal resources inside of it.</p> </aside></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the older instance template</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> <li><p>To create a reservation without specifying an instance template, create instead a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-vm-properties">single-project</a> or <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-shared#specify-vm-properties">shared reservation</a> by specifying VM properties directly.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="creating-reservations-placement-policies" data-text="Reservations with compact placement policies creation errors" tabindex="-1">Reservations with compact placement policies creation errors</h2> <p>If you fail to create a reservation by specifying a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies">compact placement policy</a>, it might be due to one of the errors in this section.</p> <h3 id="automatic-reservation-placement-policy" data-text="Attempt to create an automatically consumed reservation" tabindex="-1">Attempt to create an automatically consumed reservation</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create an automatically consumed reservation and specify a compact placement policy.</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Placement policy only supports specific reservations. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: You can only specify compact placement policies when creating <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-consume#consuming_instances_from_a_specific_reservation">specifically targeted reservations</a>.</p> <h3 id="shared-reservation-placement-policy" data-text="Attempt to create a shared reservation" tabindex="-1">Attempt to create a shared reservation</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a shared reservation by specifying a compact placement policy.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Creating shared reservations with placement policy is not supported. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: You can specify a compact placement policy only for <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project">single-project reservations</a>. Thus, create a new reservation <em>and</em> a new compact placement policy for each project you wanted to initially share your shared reservation with.</p> <h3 id="placement-policy-max-distance-1" data-text="Attempt to specify a policy with a max-distance value of 1" tabindex="-1">Attempt to specify a policy with a <code translate="no" dir="ltr">max-distance</code> value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">1</code></h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to specify a compact placement policy with a <code translate="no" dir="ltr">max-distance</code> value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">1</code> in a single-project reservation.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Resource policies with max-distance less than 2 are not supported. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: You can't specify compact placement policies with a <code translate="no" dir="ltr">max-distance</code> value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">1</code> when creating a single-project reservation. Instead, do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-compact-policy">Create a new compact placement policy</a> that doesn't specify a <code translate="no" dir="ltr">max-distance</code> value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">1</code>.</p></li> <li><p>Do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><p>Create a single-project reservation by specifying an instance template by doing the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>You can't modify the properties of an existing instance template. Instead, <a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-instance-template">create a new instance template</a> that specifies the newly created compact placement policy.</p></li> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">Create a reservation by specifying the newly created instance template</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the old instance template</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-vm-properties">Create a single-project reservation by specifying properties directly</a> and specify the newly created compact placement policy.</p></li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>Additionally, if you no longer need the old compact placement policy, see how to <a href="/compute/docs/instances/manage-placement-policies#delete-policy">delete the placement policy</a>.</p> <h3 id="spread-placement-policy" data-text="Attempt to specify a spread placement policy" tabindex="-1">Attempt to specify a spread placement policy</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to specify a spread placement policy in a reservation.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Failed to create reservation with policy <var translate="no">SPREAD_PLACEMENT_POLICY_NAME</var>. Reservations do not support spread placement policies. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: When creating a reservation, you can only specify a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies">compact placement policy</a>. Spread placement policies aren't supported.</p> <h3 id="invalid-resource-policy" data-text="Invalid type of resource policy" tabindex="-1">Invalid type of resource policy</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying another type of resource policy.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Reservation can only be supported by placement policy. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: When creating a reservation, you can only specify a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies">compact placement policy</a>. Other types of resource policies, such as instance schedules or snapshots schedules, aren't supported.</p> <h3 id="invalid-zone-placement-policy" data-text="Invalid zone for the policy" tabindex="-1">Invalid zone for the policy</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to specify a compact placement policy in a reservation, and you specify a zone which isn't within the region of the specified compact placement policy.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr"><var translate="no">ZONE</var> does not match placement policy region. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p>Where <code translate="no" dir="ltr"><var translate="no">ZONE</var></code> is the zone where you tried to reserve VMs.</p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: Try one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><p>Make sure that your zone is within the same region of the compact placement policy you specify in a reservation or a reservation's instance template.</p></li> <li><p>You can't update compact placement policies. Instead, do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-compact-policy">Create a new compact placement policy</a> with the updated properties.</p></li> <li><p>Select one of the following methods:</p> <ul> <li><p>Create a new reservation by specifying properties directly, and specify the newly created compact placement policy.</p></li> <li><p>Do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>You can't update instance templates. Instead, create a new instance template by <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates#create_a_new_instance_template">specifying the newly created compact placement policy</a>.</p> <aside class="special"><strong>Important:</strong><span> Placement policies are <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources">regional resources</a>. If you specify a placement policy when creating an instance template, then the policy restricts the use of the template to the region where it exists. For example, if you create a compact placement policy in <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1</code>, you can only use the template to create VMs or reservations within the same region.</span></aside></li> <li><p>Create a new reservation by specifying the newly created instance template.</p></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the older instance template</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> </ul></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instances/manage-placement-policies#delete-policy">Delete the older compact placement policy</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> </ul> <h3 id="max-vm-count-exceeded-placement-policies" data-text="Maximum VM count exceeded" tabindex="-1">Maximum VM count exceeded</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to reserve more VMs than the supported limit for a compact placement policy with a maximum distance value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">2</code>.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">No more than <var translate="no">SUPPORTED_NUMBER_OF_VMS</var> instances of machine type can be created with this policy. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: To reserve more than the <a href="/compute/docs/instances/placement-policies-overview#about-compact-policies">maximum number of supported VMs</a> for a compact placement policy with a maximum distance value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">2</code>, do one of the following:</p> <ul> <li><p>Create multiple reservations with matching zone, project, and properties. Since you can't share compact placement policies across reservations, you must specify a separate policy with a maximum distance value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">2</code> for each reservation.</p></li> <li><p>Specify a compact placement policy with a maximum distance value of <code translate="no" dir="ltr">3</code> (recommended) or without a maximum distance value.</p></li> </ul> <h3 id="override-placement-policy" data-text="Override compact placement policy" tabindex="-1">Override compact placement policy</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an instance template that includes a compact placement policy, and you also specify a compact placement policy directly.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Setting resource policy in both reservation and instance template is not allowed. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: When you create a reservation, you can specify a compact placement policy either directly or by using an instance template.</p> <p>To create a reservation by specifying an instance template and a different policy from the one specified in the template, do the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>If you haven't already, then <a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-compact-policy">create a new compact placement policy</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Because you can't update instance templates, <a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-instance-template">create a new template that specifies the new compact placement policy</a>.</p></li> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">Create a reservation by specifying the new instance template</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the old instance template</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instances/manage-placement-policies#delete-policy">Delete the old compact placement policy</a>.</p></li> </ol> <h3 id="placement-policy-specified" data-text="The policy is already specified in another reservation" tabindex="-1">The policy is already specified in another reservation</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying a compact placement policy, and the compact placement policy is already specified in another reservation.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Placement policy has been used by another reservation. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: You can use <em>one</em> compact placement policy only per reservation. You can't share compact placement policies across reservations. If you want to use a similar compact placement policy for another reservation, select one of the following methods:</p> <ul> <li><p>To create a reservation by specifying an instance template that includes a compact placement policy, follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-compact-policy">Create a new compact placement policy</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Create a new instance template by <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates#create_a_new_instance_template">specifying the newly created compact placement policy</a>.</p> <aside class="special"><strong>Important:</strong><span> Placement policies are <a href="/compute/docs/regions-zones/global-regional-zonal-resources#regionalresources">regional resources</a>. If you specify a placement policy when creating an instance template, then the policy restricts the use of the template to the region where the policy exists. For example, if you create a compact placement policy in <code translate="no" dir="ltr">us-central1</code>, you can only use the template to create VMs or reservations within the same region.</span></aside></li> <li><p>Create a reservation by <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-instance-template">specifying the newly created instance template</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Optional: <a href="/compute/docs/instance-templates/get-list-delete-instance-templates#delete_an_instance_template">Delete the older instance template</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> <li><p>To create a reservation by specifying VM properties and a compact placement policy directly, follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="/compute/docs/instances/use-compact-placement-policies#create-compact-policy">Create a new compact placement policy</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Create a reservation by <a href="/compute/docs/instances/reservations-single-project#specify-vm-properties">specifying the new compact placement policy directly</a>.</p></li> </ol></li> </ul> <h3 id="unsupported-machine-type" data-text="Unsupported machine type" tabindex="-1">Unsupported machine type</h3> <p>The following error occurs when you try to create a reservation by specifying an invalid machine type for compact placement policies.</p> <p><strong>Error message</strong>:</p> <div></div><devsite-code><pre class="devsite-disable-click-to-copy devsite-click-to-copy" translate="no" dir="ltr" is-upgraded><code translate="no" dir="ltr">Placement policy with reservation is not applicable to machine type <var translate="no">MACHINE_TYPE</var>. </code></pre></devsite-code> <p>Where <code translate="no" dir="ltr"><var translate="no">MACHINE_TYPE</var></code> is the machine type you tried to specify when creating a reservation.</p> <p><strong>Resolution</strong>: When creating a reservation that specifies a compact placement policy, make sure to specify a <a href="/compute/docs/instances/placement-policies-overview#about-compact-policies">supported machine type</a> for compact placement policies.</p> <devsite-hats-survey class="nocontent" hats-id="mwETRvWii0eU5NUYprb0Y9z5GVbc" listnr-id="83405"></devsite-hats-survey> </div> <devsite-thumb-rating position="footer"> </devsite-thumb-rating> <devsite-feedback position="footer" project-name="Compute Engine Documentation" product-id="81820" bucket="documentation" context="" version="t-devsite-webserver-20250218-r02-rc00.467092460105212566" data-label="Send Feedback Button" track-type="feedback" track-name="sendFeedbackLink" track-metadata-position="footer" class="nocontent" project-feedback-url="https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=187134&template=0" project-icon="https://www.gstatic.com/devrel-devsite/prod/vd2dddc2199cd18ccf014281c77515e1e906f6b98324fd2a8b5fa9e92b09e8018/cloud/images/favicons/onecloud/super_cloud.png" > <button> Send feedback </button> </devsite-feedback> <div class="devsite-floating-action-buttons"> </div> </article> <devsite-content-footer class="nocontent"> <p>Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License</a>, and code samples are licensed under the <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache 2.0 License</a>. 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