ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED status when Compute Engine instances are started

[M Surasinghe]

I have changed the project name. After changing I tried starting instances that I have in zone 'us-west1-b' and 'us-east1-b'. I get the following error:

The zone 'projects/xxxxxx/zones/us-west1-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

I kept trying for more than 12 hours without success. Any help in resolving this is much appreciated. 

[Taame (Google Cloud Support)]

Hi, 

 

When you mentioned that you changed your project name did you receive any other error messages in that process, because the shared error message you provided is more related to the fact that your zones 'us-west1-b' and 'us-east1-b' have no resources available. 

 

Our goal is to make sure that there are available resources in all zones. This type of issue is rare. When a situation like this occurs, or is about to occur, our team is notified immediately and the issue is investigated and mitigated.

 

I tried to create instances in the mentioned problematic zones to make sure if the issue is still persisting, but I was able to create and start them. 

 

On the other hand, I want to share a detailed procedure for moving instances between zones to help you start your instance in another zone with available resources to see if you have the same issue again. The easiest way would be to use the 'gcloud compute instances move' command described there. Please, however, check out the requirements and precautions related to moving instances to avoid issues during moving your instances.

[Tech Services]

Ive had this issue and I managed to work around it by not assigning a public IP - set it to "none".

Once the VM is created you can then assign an IP but YMMV.

Dave

[Bee Bee]

hi Dave, 

I followed your method and successfully created the VM,

 however must i choose a "Reserve static address" 

in order to successfully connect to the VM? 

It seems will extra charge for each static address, can i get a ephemeral ip instead?

thank you very much.

Bee

Tech Services於 2018年11月1日星期四 UTC+8上午6時52分45秒寫道：

[Tech Services]

Yes, static IP's cost money but you should be able to attach either static or ephemeral public IP's now.

[Bee Bee]

The problem solved, i could choose either the ephemeral or static after the VM created. Thank you very much.

However, did i need to do this procedures every time starting from now? 

Or this problems will solved automatically when the "Zone Resources" was fine?

It seems like a problems of the allocation of the IP address instead of out of Zone Resources..

Bee

Tech Services於 2018年11月1日星期四 UTC+8上午6時52分45秒寫道：

Ive had this issue and I managed to work around it by not assigning a public IP - set it to "none".

[Tech Services]

I doubt very much that the zone is out of resources, I assume they will roll out a fix at some stage and hopefully make the error reporting more relevant to the actual issue.

[Kakuda Kachchayana]

I have the sale issue now

The zone 'projects/bitnami-tl197czbbw/zones/us-east1-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.