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GCP compute engine wont restart - Resource unavailable in Europe zone

Any GCP expert to resolve this issue ?

I created a compute engine on GCP and it had some issue so I was forced to restart the instance and found that the instance resource is missing which is really a strange this to happen. Below is the exact error message I get.

I changed the machine type from n1-standard-1 to n1-standard-2 and again tried restarting it still dint work.

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A n1-standard-1 VM instance is currently unavailable in the europe-west2-c zone.
Alternatively, you can try your request again with a different VM hardware configuration or at a later time. For more information, see the troubleshooting documentation.

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Solution

  • In public clouds like GCP, shared hardware resources will be used to run our VMs. When you stop and start your VM, the resources will get released and reattached; as a result if there is any ongoing resource shortage at Datacenters, your VM’s resources will be allocated to another VM and if there aren’t sufficient resources available your VM will end up in a failed state.

    To prevent this from happening in future, you should reserve your computational resources, but for now the only way out of this is to take a snapshot of your VM and recreate it using a different machine type which is available and which is equivalent to the current machine type.

    In your case, both n1-standard-1 and n1-standard-2 are not available. Try switching to a different compute engine series for creating the VM.

    Note: Unfortunately, there isn't any solution or method available for the public to check these resource crunch situations. You need to contact the google support team who can fill you with more details on this issue.