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Compute Engine instances
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Compute Engine machine resources
Machine resource guide
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About GPUs on Google Cloud
GPU machine types
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About regions and zones
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Global, regional, and zonal resources
Get started
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Work with regions and zones
View available regions and zones
Change the default region or zone
Review VM deployment options
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About VM provisioning models
About VM tenancy
Design resilient systems
Networking overview for VMs
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About OS images
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RHEL FAQ
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Access control overview
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Create a Linux VM
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Create a managed instance group
Create instances
Instance creation overview
Create an instance
Create and start an instance
Create an instance and customize machine configuration
Create an instance with a custom hostname
Create an instance with a custom machine type
Specify a minimum CPU platform for an instance
Create an instance with attached GPUs
Overview
Accelerator-optimized instances
Create an A3 Ultra or A4 instance
Create an A3, A2, or G2 instance
Create an A3 instance with GPUDirect-TCPX enabled
Create an N1 instance that has attached GPUs
Create an instance and customize OS configuration
Create an instance from a public image
Create an instance from a custom image
Create an instance from a shared image
Create an instance using a RHEL BYOS image
Create an instance and customize networking configuration
Create an instance in a specific subnet
Create an instance with IPv6 addresses
Create an instance and customize observability configuration
Create an instance for Ops Agent monitoring and logging
Enable virtual displays on an instance
Create an instance and customize security configuration
Create an instance that uses a user-managed service account
Create an instance using an existing configuration
Create an instance from an instance template
Create an instance similar to an existing instance
Create a Spot VM
Spot VMs
About Spot VMs
Create and use Spot VMs
Preemptible VMs
About preemptible VMs
Create and use preemptible VMs
Create instances for specific workload types
Create a Google-configured, workload-optimized instance
Create an HPC-ready instance
Create and manage a Windows Server instance
Create a SQL Server instance
Create custom images
Requirements to build custom images
Create custom images
Create custom Windows BYOL base images
Create custom Windows Server images
Create and manage instance templates
About instance templates
Create instance templates
Deterministic instance templates
Get, list, and delete instance templates
Create multiple VMs
Create a managed instance group (MIG)
Basic scenarios for creating MIGs
Create a MIG in a single zone
Create a MIG in multiple zones in a region
Create a MIG with multiple machine types
Create a MIG from an existing VM
Create a MIG with autoscaling
Create a MIG with preemptible VMs
Create a MIG with GPU VMs
Create a MIG with stateful configuration
Bulk creation of VMs
About bulk creation of VMs
Create VMs in bulk
Create GPU VMs in bulk
Create sole-tenant VMs
Sole-tenancy overview
Provision a sole-tenant VM
Advanced maintenance control for sole-tenant nodes
Sole-tenancy best practices
Sole-tenancy accounting FAQ
Create a virtual workstation
About creating virtual workstations
Create a virtual Linux workstation
Create a virtual Windows workstation
Create a virtual Linux workstation with an attached GPU
Create a virtual Windows workstation with an attached GPU
Use nested virtualization
About nested virtualization
Manage the nested virtualization constraint
Enable nested virtualization
Create nested VMs
Manage VM boot disks
Detach and reattach a boot disk
Create a customized boot disk
Migrate VMs
Choose a migration path
Bring your own licenses
Import disks and images
Prerequisites for importing and exporting VM images
Automatic import
Import virtual disks
Import virtual appliances
Manual import
Manually import boot disks
Manually configure imported disks
Create a persistent disk image from an ISO file
Move a VM within Google Cloud
Move a VM between zones
Migrate a VM between networks
Copy VMs between projects
Move an existing VM to a new VM
Connect to VMs
Connect to a VM
About SSH connections
Linux VMs
Connect to VMs
Connect through internal IP addresses
Connection options for internal-only VMs
Connect using IAP
Connect using a bastion host
Connect using Cloud VPN
Connect as the root user
Connect using service accounts
Configure apps to use SSH
Best practices
Securely connect to VMs
Windows VMs
Connect to Windows VMs using RDP
Connect to a Windows VM's SAC
Connect to Windows VMs using SSH
Connect to Windows VMs using PowerShell
Manage access to VMs
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Choose an access management method
About OS Login
Set up OS Login
Enable security keys with OS Login
Manage OS Login in an organization
Monitor OS Login audit logs
Configure granular access within VMs
Windows VMs
Manage accounts and credentials on Windows VMs
Automate Windows password generation
Manually manage SSH keys
Create SSH keys
Add SSH keys to VMs
Restrict SSH keys from VMs
Best practices for securing SSH access
Overview
Control network access
Control SSH login access
Protect SSH credentials
Audit SSH access
Manage tags for resources
Transfer files to or from a VM
Transfer files to Linux VMs
Transfer files to Windows VMs
IP addresses
Internal DNS
Overview of internal DNS
Access VMs using internal DNS names
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Overview of zonal DNS
Set zonal DNS as the default
Migrate to zonal DNS
Create a PTR record for a VM
Verify VM identity
Manage storage
Choose a disk type
Disk types
About Hyperdisk
Hyperdisk overview
Hyperdisk performance
Performance and size limits for Hyperdisk
Choose a Hyperdisk type
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About Hyperdisk Storage Pools
About Persistent Disk
Extreme Persistent Disk
About Local SSD
Configure storage pools
Create a storage pool
Manage storage pools
Configure disks
Add disks to VMs
Add disks from a storage pool to VMs
Create a VM with Local SSD disks
Create a VM with additional non-boot disks
Create a new Hyperdisk
Create a new Persistent Disk
Share a disk between VMs
Attach a disk to a VM
Mount in-memory RAM disks
Prepare disks for use
Format and mount a non-boot disk on Linux
Format and prepare a non-boot disk on Windows
Access disks attached to a VM
Best practice: Use persistent device names
Symbolic links to disks
Transfer data to disks attached to a VM
Transfer files to Linux VMs
Transfer files to Windows VMs
Encrypt disks
About disk encryption
Encrypt disks with customer-supplied encryption keys
Help protect resources by using Cloud KMS keys
Modify disks
Modify Hyperdisk
Change the disk type
Increase the size of a Persistent Disk
Modify a Persistent Disk
Evaluate disk performance
About Persistent Disk performance
Review disk performance
Review storage pool metrics
Review disk performance metrics
Analyze provisioned IOPS and throughput
Benchmark disk performance
Benchmark Hyperdisk performance
Benchmark Persistent Disk performance on a Linux VM
Benchmark Persistent Disk performance on a Windows VM
Benchmark Local SSD performance
Make disks highly available
Replicate disks across regions
About Asynchronous Replication
Configure replication
Manage replication
Failover and failback disks
Manage asynchronous disks
Manage consistency groups
Review performance metrics
Cross-zonal synchronous disk replication
About regional disks
Build high availability services using regional disks
Design considerations for resilient workloads with regional disks
Create and manage regional disks
Manage failures for regional disks
Back up and restore
Data protection options
Configure the default backup setting
Back up VMs
Use machine images
About machine images
Create machine images
Import machine images from virtual appliances
Use Backup and DR backup plans
About backup plans
Create an instance with a backup plan
Change your instance's backup plan
Back up disks
Back up a disk in place
About instant snapshots
Create and manage instant snapshots
Copy an instant snapshot to a different location
Back up a disk for disaster recovery
About disk snapshots
Best practices for disk snapshots
Set default storage location for globally scoped snapshots
Set creation and restore locations for regionally scoped snapshots
Create disk snapshots
Manage disk snapshots
Create application consistent snapshots
Create Linux application consistent snapshots
Create a Windows disk snapshot (VSS snapshots)
Schedule disk backups
About snapshot schedules
Create snapshot schedules
Manage snapshot schedules
Configure alerts for snapshot schedules
Duplicate a disk with clones
Restore from a backup
Create VMs from machine images
Restore from a standard snapshot
Restore from an instant snapshot
Recover a VM with a corrupted or full disk
Manage VMs
Basic operations and lifecycle
VM instance lifecycle
Schedule VM operations
Schedule a VM to start and stop
Limit the run time of a VM
View VM properties
Detect if a VM is running in Compute Engine
Get a list of VMs
Get the details of a VM
Get the UUID of a VM
View the source image of a VM
View referrers to VMs
View network configuration of an instance
View the number of visible CPU cores
Stop or suspend a VM
Stop or suspend VMs overview
Stop or restart a VM
Gracefully shut down a VM
Graceful shutdown overview
Enable graceful shutdown
View graceful shutdown
Disable graceful shutdown
Suspend or resume a VM
Reset a VM
Update VM details
Rename a VM
Update VM properties
Edit the machine type of a VM
Add or remove GPUs
Change the attached service account
Update the physical location of a VM
About placement policies
Create and apply spread placement policies to VMs
View placement policies
Remove or delete placement policies
Configure IP addresses
Configure static external IP addresses
Configure static internal IP addresses
Configure IPv6 for instances and instance templates
Delete VMs
Delete a VM
Prevent accidental VM deletion
Update VM tenancy
Manage groups of VMs
Work with managed VMs in a MIG
View info about MIGs and managed instances
Add or remove VMs in a MIG
Limit the run time of VMs in a MIG
Add GPU VMs all at once in a MIG
About resize requests
Create resize requests
View, cancel, or delete resize requests
Configure instance flexibility in a MIG
About instance flexibility
Add instance flexibility
View instance flexibility
Change or remove instance flexibility
Distribute VMs across zones in a regional MIG
About regional MIGs
About target distribution shape
Set a target distribution for VMs across zones
Disable and reenable proactive instance redistribution
Manually rebalance a regional MIG
Simulate a zone outage for a regional MIG
Work with suspended and stopped VMs in a MIG
Overview
Manually suspend or stop VMs in a MIG
Accelerate scale out with suspended and stopped VMs
Apply new VM configurations in a MIG
About applying new VM configurations to VMs in a MIG
Automatically apply VM configuration updates
Selectively apply VM configuration updates
Apply configuration updates during repairs
Override instance template properties with an all-instances configuration
Perform one-click OS image upgrades
Maintain high availability during VM failures
About repairing VMs for high availability
Repair a VM when an application fails
Set up an application-based health check and autohealing
Monitor VM health state changes
Disable and enable health state change logs
Turn off repairs in a MIG
Support a stateful workload with a MIG
About stateful MIGs
Configure stateful MIGs
Configure a stateful MIG
Configure stateful persistent disks
Configure stateful metadata
Configure stateful IP addresses
Apply, view, and remove stateful configuration
How stateful MIGs work
How operations affect preserved state
Group VMs together
Migrate an existing workload to a stateful managed instance group
Group unmanaged VMs together
Delete a MIG
Host maintenance events
About host events
Live migration process
Set the host maintenance policy
Query metadata server for notices
Simulate a host maintenance event
Handle GPU host maintenance events
Monitor and plan for a host maintenance event
Manually start host maintenance
Manage metadata
About VM metadata
Predefined metadata keys
Set and remove custom metadata
View and query VM metadata
Set and query guest attributes
Securing VMs
About Shielded VMs
About Confidential VMs
Protect resources with VPC Service Controls
Monitor security risks with Security Command Center
Manage operating systems
Guest environment
About the guest environment
Install the guest environment
Manage operating systems using VM Manager
Manage OS images
Image management best practices
Image families best practices
Access Red Hat Knowledgebase
Manage access to custom images
Set up trusted image policies
Export a custom image to Cloud Storage
Set image versions in an image family
Deprecate a custom image
Delete a custom image
Manage OS packages
Manage licenses
About licenses
View and append licenses
Append RHEL ELS licenses
Upgrade from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Pro
Use startup scripts
Startup scripts overview
Use startup scripts on Linux VMs
Use startup scripts on Windows VMs
Run shutdown scripts
Configure NTP
Enable the virtual random number generator (Virtio RNG)
Deploy workloads
