Cannot start or move a VM Instance

Question

I am fairly new to Google Cloud platform and cloud computing as a whole. I had af1-micro (1 vCPU, 0.6 GB memory) type of instance running. GCP gave me a warning that the instance was overutilized and I should change it to g1-small (1 vCPU, 1.7 GB memory) type of instance. When I went to upgrade, it began to restart my instance but gave me the error

Starting VM instance '<instance name>' failed. Error: The zone 'projects/<project id>/zones/asia-south1-a' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

I have waited for some time (more than 12 hours) to start it again and getting the same error. I edited the instance manually and changed it to g1-small (1 vCPU, 1.7 GB memory) but still getting the same error.

I tried moving the instance to a different zone in same region using move instances in google cloud SDK Shell, but got an error and found out that instances in terminated state cannot be moved.

I just need to get my instance up and running, so please help here.

Answer 1

Did some further investigation. Indeed the resource shortage is still ongoing in the region. However changing the machine type to E2-micro/small then starting the instance should work for you.

Answer 2

I faced the same issue and I am still facing it. What I ended up doing is I switched to asia-south1-c.

Answer 3

Finally was able to create a snapshot of a terminated instance from the web console and then create a new VM using that snapshot in a different region. Then deleted the old VM and snapshot.