Create non-ULL Compute Engine instances for auxiliary workloads

This page describes how to create non-Ultra Low Latency (ULL) Compute Engine instances by using U4S machine types from the U4S machine series.

You can create non-ULL instances in the private zones supported by ULL Solution for close proximity to ULL instances. You can use non-ULL instances to provide data or services to ULL instances, or to send and receive Cloud Multicast traffic.

Before you begin

Before you create non-ULL compute instances, see the following sections.

Create a VPC network

If you haven't already, create a VPC network for your instance as described in Configuration overview for ULL Solution.

Ensure that the network has a subnet in the region in which you plan to create your instance.

Set your project

Set the gcloud CLI to use your project. Alternatively you can include the --project=PROJECT_ID flag for each command in the following procedures.

    gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

Replace PROJECT_ID with the ID of your project.

Enable APIs

If you haven't already, enable the following APIs.

Console

Enable the Compute Engine API.

Roles required to enable APIs

To enable APIs, you need the serviceusage.services.enable permission. If you created the project, then you likely already have this permission through the Owner role (roles/owner). Otherwise, you can get this permission through the Service Usage Admin role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin). Learn how to grant roles.

Enable the API

gcloud

Enable the Compute Engine API:

Roles required to enable APIs

To enable APIs, you need the serviceusage.services.enable permission. If you created the project, then you likely already have this permission through the Owner role (roles/owner). Otherwise, you can get this permission through the Service Usage Admin role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin). Learn how to grant roles. 

gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com

Create a non-ULL instance

This section describes how to create a new non-ULL instance to use for auxiliary workloads.

For general information about creating compute instances, including additional configuration options, see Create and start a Compute Engine instance.

gcloud

To create a non-ULL instance, use the compute instances create command.

gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE_NAME \
    --zone=ZONE \
    --machine-type=MACHINE_TYPE \
    --image-project=IMAGE_PROJECT \
    --image-family=IMAGE_FAMILY \
    --network=NETWORK \
    --subnet=SUBNET

Replace the following values:

  • ZONE: the zone in which to create the instance
  • INSTANCE_NAME: a name for the instance
  • MACHINE_TYPE: the U4S machine type to use for the instance.
  • IMAGE_PROJECT: the image project, such as rhel-cloud. See Operating system support for U4 machine types.

  • IMAGE_FAMILY: the image family, such as rhel-10-2-eus-gvnic-baremetal. See Operating system support for U4 machine types.

    Specifying an image family creates the instance from the most recent, non-deprecated version of the OS image in the image family. Alternatively, you can use the --image flag instead and specify an image version.

  • NETWORK, SUBNET: the general-purpose VPC network and subnet in which to host the instance.

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