gcloud alpha compute instances move - move an instance and its attached persistent disks between zones
gcloud alpha compute instances move INSTANCE_NAME --destination-zone=DESTINATION_ZONE [--async] [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
(ALPHA) gcloud alpha compute instances move moves a Compute Engine virtual machine from one zone to another. Moving a virtual machine might incur downtime if the guest OS must be shut down in order to quiesce disk volumes prior to snapshotting.
For example, running the following command moves the instance called example-instance-1 with its attached persistent disks, currently running in us-central1-b, to us-central1-f.
$ gcloud compute instances move example-instance-1 \ --zone=us-central1-b --destination-zone=us-central1-f
Note: Moving VMs or disks by using the gcloud alpha compute instances move command might cause unexpected behavior. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting/known-issues#moving_vms_or_disks_using_the_moveinstance_api_or_the_causes_unexpected_behavior.
Please note that gcloud compute instances move does not yet support instances which have regional persistent disks attached. Please see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/regional-persistent-disk for more details.
To move instance-1 from us-central-a to europe-west1-d, run:
$ gcloud alpha compute instances move instance-1 \ --zone=us-central1-a --destination-zone=europe-west1-d
- INSTANCE_NAME
Name of the instance to operate on. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
- --destination-zone=DESTINATION_ZONE
The zone to move the instance to.
- --async
Return immediately, without waiting for the operation in progress to complete.
- --zone=ZONE
Zone of the instance to operate on. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). gcloud attempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined, gcloud prompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the compute/zone property:
$ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE
A list of zones can be fetched by running:
$ gcloud compute zones list
To unset the property, run:
$ gcloud config unset compute/zone
Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access allowlist. These variants are also available:
$ gcloud compute instances move
$ gcloud beta compute instances move