Restore external ip after resize my VM

[Fernando Balmaceda]

Today change the size of my VM, memory and processor. When doing this I did not mark the previous external IP as static. So the IP change and I want to go back to the previous one. I have tried from the gcloud console but it tells me that the IP I want to assign was not found in the "us-central1" region. These were the steps I took after what happened in windows: gcloud compute instances delete-access-config [SERVER_INSTANCE] --access-config-name [CONFIG_NAME]   then: gcloud compute instances add-access-config [SERVER_INSTANCE] --access-config-name [CONFIG_NAME] --address [OLD_IP] if i run: gcloud compute addresses list the output is Listed 0 items. I have tried with all the regions that are listed, but in all it gives me the same problem It is very important to recover that IP(OLD_IP) From already thank you very much for the help

[Faizan (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Fernando,

Unfortunately its not possible to recover the ephemeral IP that was assigned to your instance. Ephemeral external IP address are released from a resource if you delete the resource or if you stop the instance. This information is documented here under the heading "Ephemeral external IP addresses":

Ephemeral external IP address are released from a resource if you delete the resource. For VM instances, if you stop the instance, the IP address is also released. Once you restart the instance, it is assigned a new ephemeral external IP address.

For future reference you need to make to reserve the IP as static before stopping the VM. I hope that helps.

Faizan

[Bilal Ayan]

Hi Faizan,

Can I reclaim a static IP which I released accidentally. 

Thank you in advance.

bilal 

[Kamran (Google Cloud Support)]

As described in this article if you release an external static IP address, the address is returned to the pool of available addresses for other projects.