Getting started
Step-by-step instructions
- All instructions
- Creating a VM
- DSVM
  - Overview
  - Creating a VM and connecting to it
- Images with pre-installed software
- Getting information about a VM
  - Getting basic information and metadata
  - Getting serial port output
- Performing VM management
- Working on a VM
- Creating a new disk
  - Creating an empty disk
- Performing disk management
- Creating a new image
  - Uploading your image
- Image management
  - Deleting an image
- Serial console management
- Creating an instance group
  - Create a fixed-size instance group
  - Create a fixed-size instance group with a load balancer
- Getting information about an instance group
- Managing an instance group
Concepts
- Relationship between resources
- Virtual machines
- Disks
  - Overview
  - Disk snapshots
- Images
- Instance Groups
- Quotas and limits
Access management
Pricing policy
- Current policy
- Archive
Compute API reference
- Authentication in the API
- Overview
- Disk
- DiskType
- Image
- Instance
- Snapshot
- Zone
- Operation
  - Overview
  - get
- InstanceGroup
Questions and answers

Platforms

Choosing a platform guarantees the type of physical processor in the data center and determines the set of valid vCPU and RAM configurations. The platform must be chosen when creating each virtual machine. For allowed vCPU and RAM configurations, see Levels of core performance.

For more information about pricing for computing resources on different platforms, see Prices.

Available platforms:

Platform	Processor	Maximum number of cores (vCPU) per virtual machine	CPU base clock rate (GHz)
Intel Broadwell (`standard-v1`)	Intel Xeon Processor E5-2660 v4	32	2.00
Intel Cascade Lake (`standard-v2`)	Intel Xeon Gold 6230	48	2.10