manage VM

Management of your Google Virtual Machine

If you read this, you have probably launched at least one time a Google Virtual Machine.

A few rules to get your life easier during the rest of this training:

• Avoid stopping your VM, instead suspend it

Stopping your VM is like stopping your PC or you laptop.

You will stop everything and will have to literally reboot everything, including the Galaxy server. It is not that difficult actually, but it takes a bit more time.

Instead, Suspending your VM is like putting your PC in sleeping mode, or closing the lid of your laptop.

Thus, remember, at the end of the day or whenever you are not going to use your VM for a long time, use:

• Protect your instance from unwanted destruction

  An accident happens so quickly...

  • Go to the Google Cloud Platform management web page.
  • Click on the name of your VM.
  • Click on the top menu Modifier
  • Edit the Protection contre la suppression option as follows:

  

  (just at the end of the section Informations générales) and do not forget to save this new setting.

From this point, you will need to uncheck the box to destroy the instance and your are protected against unwanted manifestations of bad karma !

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