2 ms·
We're not ready to put hard numbers on it. As our docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/insta
by boulos 11y ago
We're not ready to put hard numbers on it. As our docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible) say:
The probability that Compute Engine will terminate a preemptible instance for a system event is generally low, but may vary from day to day and from zone to zone depending on current conditions.
Give it a shot in us-central1-a and let us know how it goes!
[Edit to undo my quote text (it wrapped poorly)]
- pacala 11y agoI couldn't figure out from the docs, can one restart a preempted preemptible instance, or needs to start a different one? Would it be possible to restart in non-preemptible mode, so the job completes but at a higher price? We still want to complete our workloads, one way or another :)
- boulos 11y agoYes you can start a VM back up via gcloud: gcloud compute instances start instance-name Note of course that if you got preempted because we needed the capacity back for regular VMs (as opposed to say a maintenance event) you may not be able to start a new Preemptible VM in that zone.