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

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

"The zone 'projects/XXXXX/zones/europe-west2-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later."

I thought it might be the quota problem at first, after checking my quota, it showed all good. Actually, I listed the available zones, europe-west2-c was available, but I still gave a shot to move the zone. Then I tried "gcloud compute instances move XXXX --zone europe-west2-c --destination-zone europe-west2-c", however, it still failed, popped up the error:

"ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.move) Instance cannot be moved while in state: TERMINATED"

Okay, terminated... then I tried to restart it by "gcloud compute instances reset XXX", the error showed in the way:

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.reset) Could not fetch resource: - The resource 'projects/XXXXX/zones/europe-west2-c/instances/XXX' is not ready

I searched the error, some people solved this problem by deleting the disk. While I don't want to wipe the memory, how could I solve this problem?

BTW, I only have one instance, with one persistent disk attached.

Lozano Lozano · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-27T15:31:52

Its recommended to deploy and balance your workload across multiple zones or regions1 to reduce the likelihood of an outage, by building resilient and scalable architectures.

If you want an immediate solution, create a snapshot 2, then create an instance from the snapshot with different zone or region 3.

After migrating it you are still experiencing the same issue, I suggest to contact GCP support4.

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

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