GCE VM Instance Life Cycle

• The below image describes the instance life cylce
• Lets create a free tier vm instance
• Now lets stop the vm instance
• Refer Here to understand states of the GCP VM Instance
• Start the vm and navigate to gcloud cli

gcloud compute instances describe 'instance-1' --zone 'us-central1-a'

• Now lets stop the instance

gcloud compute instances stop 'instance-1' --zone='us-central1-a'
gcloud compute instances describe 'instance-1' --zone us-central1-a

• Now lets start the vm again and suspend and describe status

gcloud compute instances start 'instance-1' --zone='us-central1-a'
gcloud beta compute instances suspend 'instance-1' --zone='us-central1-a'
gcloud compute instances describe 'instance-1' --zone us-central1-a

GCE Machine Types

• Machine type is set of virtualized hardware resources available to vm instance
• Each Machine type family includes different machines types.
• VM Istance Machine family types are
  • General Purpose Machine types
    • This offers balanced price-performance ratio
    • E2
    • N2
    • N2D
    • N1
  • Memory Optimized Machine types
  • Compute Optimized Machine types
  • Accelarator optimized machine types
  • Shared-core machine types.
• Refer Here for recommendations on machine types
• If you want to know about underlying CPU platforms which GCP uses Refer Here