the zone does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request/ the resource is not ready

Question

I failed to start my instance (through the web browser), it gave me the error:

\"The zone \'projects/XXXXX/zones/europe-west4-b\' does not have enoug

Answer 1

Happened to me over the weekend when I wanted to swap the K80 to a new P100 instance.

My setup:

• 'GPUS_ALL_REGIONS' quota is set to 1.
• A single GPU (K80) instance on europe-west1 (zone: europe-west1-b)

Steps that produced the error:

1. Deleted the K80 instance.
2. After deleting I had a total of 0 instances running.
3. Each attempt to create a new instance in the same region produced the error message.

Any instance created on other regions with the same zone identifier ('b', from europe-west1-b) produced this error as well.

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How to resolve this issue:

Create a GPU instance on a different region and a different zone identifier ('a', 'c', 'd', ...). That's it.