Manually re-balance VMs on sole-tenant nodes with "Migrate within node group" maintenance policy set

By Christoph Petersen in Google Compute Engine on

Sole-tenant nodes are an important service on Google Cloud Platform to run workloads that require workload isolation or need to comply to specific licensing requirements that demand dedicated infrastructure. A detailed description what a Sole-Tenant Node is and how it is different from general fleet VMs can be found in the Compute Engine documentation.…

Moving VMs between sole-tenant node groups

By Christoph Petersen in Google Cloud on

Sole-tenant nodes are being used by customers for workload isolation and also for licensing compliance (e.g. bringing Window Server licenses). Throughout the life cycle of a sole-tenant node there might be the necessity of moving virtual machines to another node group or even to another machine family (e.…