My compute engine instance is in a zone that went on maintenance yesterday. Fortunately, a month ago I created a snapshot of my persistent disk. Now I would like to create a new instance in a different zone (not currently in maintenance).
When I create that new instance and choose to create the disk from my snapshot, no problem. But when I try to ssh into this new instance, I get a time out.
Is this possibly a disk created from an image before Compute Engine went GA (mid December 2013)? If so, you will need to upgrade the kernel before it will boot using the v1 API.
What i think the problem here is : the SSH keys aren't copied rather tagged for newly created instance. This is because, in Google-Cloud - if you take snapshot of disk, it takes snapshot of only the BOOT-DISK data, not the metadata like ssh-keys, tags of original-instance, network configs etc.
So, you may need to add SSH metadata keys for that instance or use tags for assigning the keys & then you should be able to do SSH to the newly created instance.
