GCP Creating Virtual Machines
- Create several standard VMs
- Create advanced VMs
gcloud compute instances create pradeep-1 --project=qwiklabs-gcp-04-826073374c5a --zone=us-central1-c --machine-type=n1-standard-1 --network-interface=subnet=default,no-address --metadata=enable-oslogin=true --maintenance-policy=MIGRATE --provisioning-model=STANDARD --service-account=361019318543-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append --create-disk=auto-delete=yes,boot=yes,device-name=pradeep-1,image=projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-10-buster-v20230411,mode=rw,size=10,type=projects/qwiklabs-gcp-04-826073374c5a/zones/us-central1-c/diskTypes/pd-balanced --no-shielded-secure-boot --shielded-vtpm --shielded-integrity-monitoring --labels=ec-src=vm_add-gcloud --reservation-affinity=any
gcloud compute instances create pradeep-3 --project=qwiklabs-gcp-04-826073374c5a --zone=us-central1-a --machine-type=e2-custom-2-4096 --network-interface=network-tier=PREMIUM,subnet=default --metadata=enable-oslogin=true --maintenance-policy=MIGRATE --provisioning-model=STANDARD --service-account=361019318543-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append --create-disk=auto-delete=yes,boot=yes,device-name=pradeep-3,image=projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-10-buster-v20230411,mode=rw,size=10,type=projects/qwiklabs-gcp-04-826073374c5a/zones/us-central1-a/diskTypes/pd-balanced --no-shielded-secure-boot --shielded-vtpm --shielded-integrity-monitoring --labels=ec-src=vm_add-gcloud --reservation-affinity=any
student-01-b9934b2a0bae@pradeep-3:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 4040776 131052 3772504 5360 137220 3717864
Swap: 0 0 0
student-01-b9934b2a0bae@pradeep-3:~$ sudo dmidecode -t 17
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
Handle 0x7000, DMI type 17, 21 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0200
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: DIMM 0
Bank Locator: Not Specified
Type: RAM
Type Detail: Synchronous
student-01-b9934b2a0bae@pradeep-3:~$ nproc
2
student-01-b9934b2a0bae@pradeep-3:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 79
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.20GHz
Stepping: 0
CPU MHz: 2199.998
BogoMIPS: 4399.99
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 56320K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt arat md_clear arch_capabilities
student-01-b9934b2a0bae@pradeep-3:~$
student-01-b9934b2a0bae@pradeep-3:~$
In this lab, we created several virtual machine instances of different types with different characteristics. One was a small utility VM for administration purposes. We also created a standard VM and a custom VM. We launched both Windows and Linux VMs and deleted VMs.
