How can I create a boot disk type of SSD persistent disk using gcloud?
From the console I can create a VM instance with SSD persistent disk from the image. I am not able to do it using gcloud.
gcloud compute instances create instance1 --image img_name1 --image-project project_id --machine-type=type_value1 --zone=${CONFIG_zone}
By defaults it is creating a Standard Persistent Disk.
You are right, the default disk type for boot disks in new compute engine instances is "Standard persistent disk"
Try to use the optional parameter "--boot-disk-type" for the "gcloud compute instances create" command as described in the gcloud documentation.
With the following command I created a debian test instance with ssd boot disk:
gcloud compute instances create test-vm --machine-type=f1-micro \
--zone=europe-west4-b --boot-disk-type=pd-ssd
You can get the available disk types for each zone via the following gcloud command:
gcloud compute disk-types list
The disk typ "pd-ssd" however seems to be available in all zones.
