How to provision Money Saver VM on GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

This section describes how to launch and connect to Money Saver VM in a Google Compute environment to save upto 80% on VM cost.

1. Open Money Saver VM listing on GCP Marketplace.

2. Click Launch on Compute Engine.

• Select a zone where you want to launch the VM(such as us-east1-)
• Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory. For this vm, f1.micro instance size is enough.You can go with micro instance type here. (This defaults to 1 vCPUs and 0.6 GB ram.)
• Optionally change the boot disk type and size. (This defaults to “Standard Persistent Disk” and 10 GB respectively)
• Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names.Keep port 22 open to allow SSH connection to this VM
• Click Deploy when you are done. Money Saver VM will begin deploying.

3. A summary page displays when the compute engine is successfully deployed. Click on the Instance link to go to the instance page .

4. Click on the VM, it will open a details page.For this VM to work we need Access Scope of Compute Engine as Read/Write enabled

5. To Enable it, Stop the VM and click on Edit. Go to the Cloud API access scopes section and change the compute engine access scope to Read/Write. Save your changes

6. Start your VM.Now this VM is fully configured and ready to use.

See also to:
Using Money-Saver VM to start VMs within the same project
Using Money-Saver VM to start VMs in other projects