How do I enable preemptible on an existing GCP Compute Engine VM? I don't want to have to delete and recreate it.
Enable Preemptible on Existing GCP Compute Engine
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How do I enable preemptible on an existing GCP Compute Engine VM? I don't want to have to delete and recreate it.
Best Answer
No, it's not possible to change the preemptible status of a running VM instance.
A VM is determined to be preemptible or normal at creation time, and can't be upgraded or downgraded once created.
However, you can create a snapshot of your existing VM instance and using that snapshot you can Creating a Preemptible VM Instance. For more information about how to Creating an instance from a snapshot follow this article.