the zone does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request/ the resource is not ready

Question

I failed to start my instance (through the web browser), it gave me the error:

\"The zone \'projects/XXXXX/zones/europe-west4-b\' does not have enoug

Answer 1

To have a more up to date answer, today I had the same issue with the zone us-central1-a. I was getting the error message "The zone 'projects//zones/us-central1-a' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. '(resource type:compute)'.". Fortunatelly the error was overcome by just waiting 5 minutes and trying again.

Answer 2

So I had the same issue for over 24 hours.

I tried to move my VM to another zone, but since it was in the terminated state and I couldn't restart it due to not having enough resources in my region, I couldn't move it.

Okay, but then per my understanding, your persistent disk attached to your VM is another story and you can copy it without starting your VM.

So I went around this issue by:

1. Going to my Google Cloud Platform >>> Compute Engine
2. Went to Snapshots >>> created a snapshot >>> Select your Compute Engine instance
3. Once snapshot was completed I clicked on my snapshot.
4. Ended up under "snapshot details". There, on the top, just click create instance. Here you are basically creating an instance with a copy of your disk.
5. Select your new zone, don't forget to attach GPUs, all previous setting, create new name.
6. Click create, that's it, your image should now be running in your new zone