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The google VM instance for region europe-west4-b, is failing to start today, It was working fine till yesterday, I receive an error message when I click on start as following:

Failed to start ubuntu-2: The zone 'projects/XXX/zones/europe-west4-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. '(resource type:compute)'
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Ajitesh Bhan
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    Does this answer your question? [the zone does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request/ the resource is not ready](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52684656/the-zone-does-not-have-enough-resources-available-to-fulfill-the-request-the-re) – Simon S. Apr 07 '21 at 15:22

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This isn't an issue, let me provide you some explanations:

  1. When you stop an instance it releases some resources like vCPU and memory.

  2. When you start an instance (or change it) it requests resources like vCPU and memory back and if there's not enough resources available in the zone you'll get an error message. More information available in the documentation:

    If you receive a resource error (such as ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED or ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED_WITH_DETAILS) when requesting new resources, it means that the zone cannot currently accommodate your request. This error is due to Compute Engine resource obtainability, and is not due to your Compute Engine quota.

  3. Resource availability are depending from users requests and therefore are dynamic.

There are a few ways to solve such issue without moving it to another zone:

  1. Move your VM instance to another zone if it's possible in your use case.
  2. Wait for a while and try to start your VM instance again.
  3. Reserve resources for your VM by following documentation to avoid such issue in future (extra payment required).
Serhii Rohoza
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