View machine type

When you create a virtual machine (VM) workload in Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDC), you can select the VirtualMachineType template which determines the resources allocated to that VM. These templates are called VirtualMachineType. GDC has some predefined VirtualMachineType templates to choose from during your VM workload creation. Use either the Console (UI) or command-line interface (CLI) to view all available VirtualMachineType templates.

VirtualMachineType

GDC defines a VirtualMachineType with some parameters for a VM, which include CPU, memory, and GPU. GDC has various VirtualMachineType templates for different purposes. For example, it uses n2-standard-2-gdc for general purpose VM workloads. You can also find VirtualMachineTypes for memory- optimized purposes, such as n2-highcpu-8-gdc.

The following is a list of all GDC predefined VirtualMachineTypes:

Name vCPUs Memory GPU
n2-standard-2-gdc 2 8G N/A
n2-standard-4-gdc 4 16G N/A
n2-standard-8-gdc 8 32G N/A
n2-standard-16-gdc 16 64G N/A
n2-standard-32-gdc 32 128G N/A
n2-highcpu-8-gdc 8 8G N/A
n2-highmem-2-gdc 2 16G N/A
n2-highmem-4-gdc 4 32G N/A
n2-highmem-8-gdc 8 64G N/A
n2-highmem-16-gdc 16 128G N/A
n2-highmem-32-gdc 32 256G N/A
n3-standard-2-gdc 2 8G N/A
n3-standard-4-gdc 4 16G N/A
n3-standard-8-gdc 8 32G N/A
n3-standard-16-gdc 16 64G N/A
n3-standard-32-gdc 32 128G N/A
n3-standard-64-gdc 64 256G N/A
n3-standard-80-gdc 80 320G N/A
n4-highmem-4-gdc 4 32G N/A
n4-highmem-8-gdc 8 64G N/A
n4-highmem-16-gdc 16 128G N/A
n4-highmem-32-gdc 32 256G N/A
n4-highmem-48-gdc 48 384G N/A
n4-highmem-64-gdc 64 512G N/A
n4-highmem-80-gdc 80 640G N/A
a2-highgpu-1g-gdc 12 85G 1x A100 40GB
a2-ultragpu-1g-gdc 12 170G 1x A100 80GB
a2-ultragpu-2g-gdc 24 340G 2x A100 80GB
a3-highgpu-1g-gdc 28 240G 1x H100 94GB
a3-highgpu-2g-gdc 56 480G 2x H100 94GB
a3-highgpu-4g-gdc 112 960G 4x H100 94GB
a3-ultragpu-8g-gdc 224 1792G 8x H200 141GB

List all predefined VirtualMachineTypes

To view all available VirtualMachineType templates in your environment, you can directly check the VirtualMachineType drop-down list on the UI. Run either of the following kubectl CLI or gdcloud CLI command:

gdcloud 

gdcloud compute machine-types list

kubectl 

kubectl --kubeconfig MANAGEMENT_API_SERVER \
  -n vm-system \
  get virtualmachinetypes.virtualmachine.gdc.goog
  • Replace MANAGEMENT_API_SERVER with the kubeconfig file for the Management API server.

View a single VirtualMachineType

To view a specific VirtualMachineType, directly check it from UI on the VM workload creation page, or run the following kubectl CLI:

kubectl 

kubectl --kubeconfig MANAGEMENT_API_SERVER \
  -n vm-system \
  get virtualmachinetypes.virtualmachine.gdc.goog VMType_NAME \
  -o yaml

Replace the following:

  • MANAGEMENT_API_SERVER with the kubeconfig file for the Management API server.
  • VMType_NAME with the name of the VirtualMachineType you want to query.