I'm trying to create an instance using GCP. The followings are the specifications (the rest of the settings are set as default):
Region: us-west1-b
GPU type: NVIDIA Tesla V100
Number of GPUs: 1
Series: N1
Machine type: Custom (12 vCPUs, 64GB memory)
Booting disk: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS balanced persistent disk 50GB
Add local SSD: 16 NVMes (Each SSD is 375GB, so total of 375GB * 16 = 6000GB)
It seems that adding the local SSDs is making problem. The error message says:
Invalid value for field 'resource.disks[1].initializeParams.diskSizeGb': '6000'. Invalid local SSD size in GB: 6000
However, I don't understand why it is impossible to create this instance. When I googled for the error message, there is not much to tell. Is there any clue what that error message indicates, and how I can fix it?
Best Answer
Thanks to @Appleoddity who left a great comment and @Goli Nikitha who answered my question in stackoverflow, I've figured this out using the CLI command instead of the console. I still don't know why the console does not work, but I will share the CLI command that I've used to fix this.
gcloud compute instances create <INSTANCE_NAME> --project=<PROJECT_NAME> --zone=us-west1-b --machine-type=custom-12-65536 --network-interface=network-tier=PREMIUM,subnet=default --maintenance-policy=TERMINATE --service-account=<SERVICE_ACCOUNT> --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append --accelerator=count=1,type=nvidia-tesla-v100 --create-disk=auto-delete=yes,boot=yes,device-name=<INSTANCE_NAME>,image=projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/ubuntu-1804-bionic-v20220331a,mode=rw,size=50,type=projects/<PROJECT_NAME>/zones/us-west1-b/diskTypes/pd-balanced --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --local-ssd=interface=NVME --no-shielded-secure-boot --shielded-vtpm --shielded-integrity-monitoring --reservation-affinity=any