How to change my machine type for an instance running on GCP

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I had initially used an instance that had very limited capabilities as it was a test environment. Now I wish to change the machine type to increase the number of CPUs and other requirements. I have already stopped the instance. What's the way forward?
Nov 4, 2019 in GCP by anonymous
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You can only change the machine type of a stopped instance and an instance is considered stopped only when the instance is in the TERMINATED state. It is not possible to change the machine type of a running instance.

To change a machine type in gcloud, run the following command, replacing INSTANCE with the instance name, and MACHINE-TYPE with the desired machine type:

gcloud compute instances set-machine-type INSTANCE --machine-type MACHINE-TYPE

Your machine type can be a predefined machine type, such as n1-standard-1, or a custom machine type. For example, a custom machine type with 4 vCPUs and 1 GB of memory can be specified as:

--machine-type custom-4-1024

For more info refer https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/changing-machine-type-of-stopped-instance

answered Nov 4, 2019 by Sirajul
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