Question

Your team is launching a new batch-processing service and needs to spin up 50 additional n2-standard-8 VMs in the us-central1 region. When you attempt to create them via a managed instance group, the operation fails with an error indicating the regional CPU quota has been exceeded. You must resolve this so the deployment can proceed with minimal disruption. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

In the Cloud Console, go to IAM & Admin > Quotas, filter for the CPUs quota in us-central1, select it, and submit a quota increase request.

Answer

Create a new project and deploy the instance group there, since quotas cannot be changed on an existing project.

Answer

Upgrade the project's billing account to a higher support tier, which automatically raises all regional quotas.

Answer

Add a firewall rule to allow the additional VM traffic, then retry the instance group creation.