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masus04
Asked: 2022-01-12 01:58:54 +0800 CST

GCP does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request for about a month

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I've been trying to start my existing GCP VM that has an NVIDIA T4 GPU attached to it, for almost a month at this time. It has been working fine before but now I am constantly getting the error message:

The zone '***' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later."

Which indicates that there are no GPUs available.

Starting any VM with a GPU in another zone does not work either, nor can I start other existing VMs in other projects. Starting VMs without any GPUs attached works perfectly fine however.

All evidence points towards GCP just not having any available GPUs but I cannot believe this would be the case for almost a month at this point.

Any insight into this?

google-cloud-platform google-compute-engine gpu

2 Answers

  1. Yes, the error indicates that there is not enough free resources in the zone to start your instance. Lots of users are facing this nowadays.

    I was just able to spin up a T4 attached N1-standard-1 instance in zone southamerica-east1-c.

    Try moving your instance to this zone and start it there. You can find instructions here.

    Consider reserving a GPU if you plan to keep the instance running for a long time so that you will not face this issue again.

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  2. Had the same issue. no zone let me create a gpu machine due to not enough resources. However, i managed to create one trying every zone that has gpus available:

    $ for zone in {\
asia-east1-a,\
asia-east1-b,\
asia-east1-c,\
asia-northeast1-a,\
asia-northeast1-c,\
asia-northeast3-b,\
asia-northeast3-c,\
asia-south1-a,\
asia-south1-b,\
asia-southeast1-a,\
asia-southeast1-b,\
asia-southeast1-c,\
asia-southeast2-a,\
asia-southeast2-b,\
asia-southeast2-c,\
australia-southeast1-b,\
australia-southeast1-c,\
europe-west1-b,\
europe-west1-c,\
europe-west1-d,\
europe-west2-a,\
europe-west2-b,\
europe-west3-b,\
europe-west4-a,\
europe-west4-b,\
europe-west4-c,\
northamerica-northeast1-a,\
northamerica-northeast1-b,\
northamerica-northeast1-c,\
southamerica-east1-c,\
us-central1-a,\
us-central1-b,\
us-central1-c,\
us-central1-f,\
us-east1-b,\
us-east1-c,\
us-east1-d,\
us-east4-a,\
us-east4-b,\
us-east4-c,\
us-west1-a,\
us-west1-b,\
us-west2-b,\
us-west2-c,\
us-west4-a,\
us-west4-b\
}; do gcloud compute instances create gpu-machine-$zone --project=xxxx --zone=$zone --machine-type=......; done
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