Google Compute Engine GCE: Virtual Machine cloud
Google Compute Engine GCE, offers the ability to run virtual machines in GCP, giving you maximum control over your instances hosted by Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
GCE exposes the entire operating system, ensuring that you can change any of its configurations and simplifying migrations.
Compute Engine is perfect for web apps and entire infrastructures, avoiding the upfront costs of purchasing, configuring, and maintaining hardware.
Similar to a physical server, you can reconfigure CPU, Memory, storage, of VM instances, and take advantage of Google's unparalleled global connectivity network.
Our Google Cloud GCP Consultancy, will guide you through the implementation, enabling you to optimize cost, minimize complexity, streamline management, and give you incredible growth speed, stability, and unparalleled functionality.
VMVM instances in Google Compute Engine GCE
The Google Cloud Platform GCP, gives us a variety of operating systems, from which to choose.
Linux VMs are ready for access in about ten seconds, a few minutes for Windows ones.
Linux Instances
A variety of Linux distributions are available, including the well-known
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- Suse Linux SLES
- Red Hat
- Rocky Linux
Linux VMs offer access via secure terminal, SSH and Google Cloud Console.
Windows server instances
You can also run Windows operating systems, starting with Server 2004, up to the latest 2019 Datacenter and 20H2 Datacenter Core versions
Windows instances offer login via Remote desktop RDP, available on the standard TCP port 3389
Custom images for instances
You can create, preconfigure and import operating system images from the on-premises for existing applications, and in some cases, completely migrate a virtual machine
Special configurations
Google Compute Engine GCE offers some instances with specific configurations as needed:
- Compute-optimized optimized for compute
- Memory-optimized optimized
- Accelerator-optimized for parallel computing on GPU, for ML or HPC
- Storage-optimized: optimized for workloads that need little computing power but heavy disks
Sole-tenant servers
For those with physical isolation needs, a dedicated server can be reserved to meet strict security standards.
Instances can be created until server resources are exhausted instead of being automatically deployed by the provider to maximize capacity
Preemptible instances
Preemptible instances, have discounts of up to 80% and are useful in the case of distributed and failure-tolerant loads
They can be destroyed at any time in case of resource allocation needs and are deleted at the end of 24 hours
Spot instances
Preemptible instances, with discounts of up to 91% and high turnover, suitable for distributed computation, with high failure tolerance and minimal startup times
Shielded VM
Shielded instances, offer bootloader integrity checks, vTPM and secure boot enabled
