Method: instances.setScheduling

HTTP request
Path parameters
Query parameters
Request body
- JSON representation
Response body
- JSON representation
Authorization scopes
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Sets an instance's scheduling options. You can only call this method on a stopped instance, that is, a VM instance that is in a TERMINATED state. See Instance Life Cycle for more information on the possible instance states. For more information about setting scheduling options for a VM, see Set VM host maintenance policy.

HTTP request

POST https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}/setScheduling

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters

Parameters
`project`	`string` Project ID for this request.
`zone`	`string` The name of the zone for this request.
`instance`	`string` Instance name for this request.

project

string

Project ID for this request.

zone

string

The name of the zone for this request.

instance

string

Instance name for this request.

Query parameters

Parameters

Parameters
`requestId`	`string` An optional request ID to identify requests. Specify a unique request ID so that if you must retry your request, the server will know to ignore the request if it has already been completed. For example, consider a situation where you make an initial request and the request times out. If you make the request again with the same request ID, the server can check if original operation with the same request ID was received, and if so, will ignore the second request. This prevents clients from accidentally creating duplicate commitments. The request ID must be a valid UUID with the exception that zero UUID is not supported (`00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000`).

requestId

string

An optional request ID to identify requests. Specify a unique request ID so that if you must retry your request, the server will know to ignore the request if it has already been completed.

For example, consider a situation where you make an initial request and the request times out. If you make the request again with the same request ID, the server can check if original operation with the same request ID was received, and if so, will ignore the second request. This prevents clients from accidentally creating duplicate commitments.

The request ID must be a valid UUID with the exception that zero UUID is not supported (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000).

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation

JSON representation
{ "onHostMaintenance": enum, "automaticRestart": boolean, "preemptible": boolean, "nodeAffinities": [ { "key": string, "operator": enum, "values": [ string ] } ], "minNodeCpus": integer, "locationHint": string, "maintenanceFreezeDurationHours": integer, "maintenanceInterval": enum, "availabilityDomain": integer, "provisioningModel": enum, "instanceTerminationAction": enum, "hostErrorTimeoutSeconds": integer, "localSsdRecoveryTimeout": { "seconds": string, "nanos": integer }, // Union field `run_duration` can be only one of the following: "maxRunDuration": { "seconds": string, "nanos": integer }, "terminationTime": string // End of list of possible types for union field `run_duration`. // Union field `on_instance_termination_action` can be only one of the following: "onInstanceStopAction": { "discardLocalSsd": boolean } // End of list of possible types for union field // `on_instance_termination_action`. }

{
  "onHostMaintenance": enum,
  "automaticRestart": boolean,
  "preemptible": boolean,
  "nodeAffinities": [
    {
      "key": string,
      "operator": enum,
      "values": [
        string
      ]
    }
  ],
  "minNodeCpus": integer,
  "locationHint": string,
  "maintenanceFreezeDurationHours": integer,
  "maintenanceInterval": enum,
  "availabilityDomain": integer,
  "provisioningModel": enum,
  "instanceTerminationAction": enum,
  "hostErrorTimeoutSeconds": integer,
  "localSsdRecoveryTimeout": {
    "seconds": string,
    "nanos": integer
  },

  // Union field run_duration can be only one of the following:
  "maxRunDuration": {
    "seconds": string,
    "nanos": integer
  },
  "terminationTime": string
  // End of list of possible types for union field run_duration.

  // Union field on_instance_termination_action can be only one of the following:
  "onInstanceStopAction": {
    "discardLocalSsd": boolean
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field
  // on_instance_termination_action.
}

Fields
`onHostMaintenance`	`enum` Defines the maintenance behavior for this instance. For standard instances, the default behavior is `MIGRATE`. For preemptible instances, the default and only possible behavior is `TERMINATE`. For more information, see Set VM host maintenance policy.
`automaticRestart`	`boolean` Specifies whether the instance should be automatically restarted if it is terminated by Compute Engine (not terminated by a user). You can only set the automatic restart option for standard instances. Preemptible instances cannot be automatically restarted. By default, this is set to `true` so an instance is automatically restarted if it is terminated by Compute Engine.
`preemptible`	`boolean` Defines whether the instance is preemptible. This can only be set during instance creation or while the instance is stopped and therefore, in a `TERMINATED` state. See Instance Life Cycle for more information on the possible instance states.
`nodeAffinities[]`	`object` A set of node affinity and anti-affinity configurations. Refer to Configuring node affinity for more information. Overrides reservationAffinity.
`nodeAffinities[].key`	`string` Corresponds to the label key of Node resource.
`nodeAffinities[].operator`	`enum` Defines the operation of node selection. Valid operators are `IN` for affinity and `NOT_IN` for anti-affinity.
`nodeAffinities[].values[]`	`string` Corresponds to the label values of Node resource.
`minNodeCpus`	`integer` The minimum number of virtual CPUs this instance will consume when running on a sole-tenant node.
`locationHint`	`string` An opaque location hint used to place the instance close to other resources. This field is for use by internal tools that use the public API.
`maintenanceFreezeDurationHours`	`integer` Specifies the number of hours after VM instance creation where the VM won't be scheduled for maintenance.
`maintenanceInterval`	`enum` Specifies the frequency of planned maintenance events. The accepted values are: `PERIODIC`.
`availabilityDomain`	`integer` Specifies the availability domain to place the instance in. The value must be a number between 1 and the number of availability domains specified in the spread placement policy attached to the instance.
`provisioningModel`	`enum` Specifies the provisioning model of the instance.
`instanceTerminationAction`	`enum` Specifies the termination action for the instance.
`hostErrorTimeoutSeconds`	`integer` Specify the time in seconds for host error detection, the value must be within the range of [90, 330] with the increment of 30, if unset, the default behavior of host error recovery will be used.
`localSsdRecoveryTimeout`	`object` Specifies the maximum amount of time a Local Ssd Vm should wait while recovery of the Local Ssd state is attempted. Its value should be in between 0 and 168 hours with hour granularity and the default value being 1 hour.
`localSsdRecoveryTimeout.seconds`	`string (int64 format)` Span of time at a resolution of a second. Must be from 0 to 315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are computed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years
`localSsdRecoveryTimeout.nanos`	`integer` Span of time that's a fraction of a second at nanosecond resolution. Durations less than one second are represented with a 0 `seconds` field and a positive `nanos` field. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.
Union field `run_duration`. `run_duration` can be only one of the following:
`maxRunDuration`	`object` Specifies the max run duration for the given instance. If specified, the instance termination action will be performed at the end of the run duration.
`maxRunDuration.seconds`	`string (int64 format)` Span of time at a resolution of a second. Must be from 0 to 315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are computed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years
`maxRunDuration.nanos`	`integer` Span of time that's a fraction of a second at nanosecond resolution. Durations less than one second are represented with a 0 `seconds` field and a positive `nanos` field. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.
`terminationTime`	`string` Specifies the timestamp, when the instance will be terminated, in RFC3339 text format. If specified, the instance termination action will be performed at the termination time.
Union field `on_instance_termination_action`. Defines the behaviour for instances with the instance_termination_actions. At the end of the run duration or termination time, the instance will be terminated according to the properties defined in the action. There can be only one termination action specified for an instance. `on_instance_termination_action` can be only one of the following:
`onInstanceStopAction`	`object`
`onInstanceStopAction.discardLocalSsd`	`boolean` If true, the contents of any attached Local SSD disks will be discarded else, the Local SSD data will be preserved when the instance is stopped at the end of the run duration/termination time.

Response body

Represents an Operation resource.

Google Compute Engine has three Operation resources:

You can use an operation resource to manage asynchronous API requests. For more information, read Handling API responses.

Operations can be global, regional or zonal.

For global operations, use the globalOperations resource.
For regional operations, use the regionOperations resource.
For zonal operations, use the zoneOperations resource.

For more information, read Global, Regional, and Zonal Resources.

Note that completed Operation resources have a limited retention period.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation

JSON representation
{ "kind": string, "id": string, "creationTimestamp": string, "name": string, "zone": string, "clientOperationId": string, "operationType": string, "targetLink": string, "targetId": string, "status": enum, "statusMessage": string, "user": string, "progress": integer, "insertTime": string, "startTime": string, "endTime": string, "error": { "errors": [ { "code": string, "location": string, "message": string, "errorDetails": [ { "errorInfo": { "reason": string, "domain": string, "metadatas": { string: string, ... } }, "quotaInfo": { "metricName": string, "limitName": string, "dimensions": { string: string, ... }, "limit": number, "futureLimit": number, "rolloutStatus": enum }, "help": { "links": [ { "description": string, "url": string } ] }, "localizedMessage": { "locale": string, "message": string } } ] } ] }, "warnings": [ { "code": enum, "message": string, "data": [ { "key": string, "value": string } ] } ], "httpErrorStatusCode": integer, "httpErrorMessage": string, "selfLink": string, "region": string, "description": string, "operationGroupId": string, // Union field `metadata` can be only one of the following: "setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata": { "clientOperationId": string, "perLocationOperations": { string: { "state": enum, "error": { "code": integer, "message": string, "details": [ { "@type": string, field1: ..., ... } ] } }, ... } }, "instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata": { "perLocationStatus": { string: { "status": enum, "targetVmCount": integer, "createdVmCount": integer, "failedToCreateVmCount": integer, "deletedVmCount": integer }, ... } } // End of list of possible types for union field `metadata`. }

{
  "kind": string,
  "id": string,
  "creationTimestamp": string,
  "name": string,
  "zone": string,
  "clientOperationId": string,
  "operationType": string,
  "targetLink": string,
  "targetId": string,
  "status": enum,
  "statusMessage": string,
  "user": string,
  "progress": integer,
  "insertTime": string,
  "startTime": string,
  "endTime": string,
  "error": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "code": string,
        "location": string,
        "message": string,
        "errorDetails": [
          {
            "errorInfo": {
              "reason": string,
              "domain": string,
              "metadatas": {
                string: string,
                ...
              }
            },
            "quotaInfo": {
              "metricName": string,
              "limitName": string,
              "dimensions": {
                string: string,
                ...
              },
              "limit": number,
              "futureLimit": number,
              "rolloutStatus": enum
            },
            "help": {
              "links": [
                {
                  "description": string,
                  "url": string
                }
              ]
            },
            "localizedMessage": {
              "locale": string,
              "message": string
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "warnings": [
    {
      "code": enum,
      "message": string,
      "data": [
        {
          "key": string,
          "value": string
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "httpErrorStatusCode": integer,
  "httpErrorMessage": string,
  "selfLink": string,
  "region": string,
  "description": string,
  "operationGroupId": string,

  // Union field metadata can be only one of the following:
  "setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata": {
    "clientOperationId": string,
    "perLocationOperations": {
      string: {
        "state": enum,
        "error": {
          "code": integer,
          "message": string,
          "details": [
            {
              "@type": string,
              field1: ...,
              ...
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      ...
    }
  },
  "instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata": {
    "perLocationStatus": {
      string: {
        "status": enum,
        "targetVmCount": integer,
        "createdVmCount": integer,
        "failedToCreateVmCount": integer,
        "deletedVmCount": integer
      },
      ...
    }
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field metadata.
}

Fields
`kind`	`string` [Output Only] Type of the resource. Always `compute#operation` for Operation resources.
`id`	`string (uint64 format)` [Output Only] The unique identifier for the operation. This identifier is defined by the server.
`creationTimestamp`	`string` [Deprecated] This field is deprecated.
`name`	`string` [Output Only] Name of the operation.
`zone`	`string` [Output Only] The URL of the zone where the operation resides. Only applicable when performing per-zone operations.
`clientOperationId`	`string` [Output Only] The value of `requestId` if you provided it in the request. Not present otherwise.
`operationType`	`string` [Output Only] The type of operation, such as `insert`, `update`, or `delete`, and so on.
`targetLink`	`string` [Output Only] The URL of the resource that the operation modifies. For operations related to creating a snapshot, this points to the disk that the snapshot was created from.
`targetId`	`string (uint64 format)` [Output Only] The unique target ID, which identifies a specific incarnation of the target resource.
`status`	`enum` [Output Only] The status of the operation, which can be one of the following: `PENDING`, `RUNNING`, or `DONE`.
`statusMessage`	`string` [Output Only] An optional textual description of the current status of the operation.
`user`	`string` [Output Only] User who requested the operation, for example: `user@example.com` or `alice_smith_identifier (global/workforcePools/example-com-us-employees)`.
`progress`	`integer` [Output Only] An optional progress indicator that ranges from 0 to 100. There is no requirement that this be linear or support any granularity of operations. This should not be used to guess when the operation will be complete. This number should monotonically increase as the operation progresses.
`insertTime`	`string` [Output Only] The time that this operation was requested. This value is in RFC3339 text format.
`startTime`	`string` [Output Only] The time that this operation was started by the server. This value is in RFC3339 text format.
`endTime`	`string` [Output Only] The time that this operation was completed. This value is in RFC3339 text format.
`error`	`object` [Output Only] If errors are generated during processing of the operation, this field will be populated.
`error.errors[]`	`object` [Output Only] The array of errors encountered while processing this operation.
`error.errors[].code`	`string` [Output Only] The error type identifier for this error.
`error.errors[].location`	`string` [Output Only] Indicates the field in the request that caused the error. This property is optional.
`error.errors[].message`	`string` [Output Only] An optional, human-readable error message.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[]`	`object` [Output Only] An optional list of messages that contain the error details. There is a set of defined message types to use for providing details.The syntax depends on the error code. For example, QuotaExceededInfo will have details when the error code is QUOTA_EXCEEDED.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo`	`object`
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo.reason`	`string` The reason of the error. This is a constant value that identifies the proximate cause of the error. Error reasons are unique within a particular domain of errors. This should be at most 63 characters and match a regular expression of `[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]+[A-Z0-9]`, which represents UPPER_SNAKE_CASE.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo.domain`	`string` The logical grouping to which the "reason" belongs. The error domain is typically the registered service name of the tool or product that generates the error. Example: "pubsub.googleapis.com". If the error is generated by some common infrastructure, the error domain must be a globally unique value that identifies the infrastructure. For Google API infrastructure, the error domain is "googleapis.com".
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo.metadatas`	`map (key: string, value: string)` Additional structured details about this error. Keys must match /[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9-_]+/ but should ideally be lowerCamelCase. Also they must be limited to 64 characters in length. When identifying the current value of an exceeded limit, the units should be contained in the key, not the value. For example, rather than {"instanceLimit": "100/request"}, should be returned as, {"instanceLimitPerRequest": "100"}, if the client exceeds the number of instances that can be created in a single (batch) request.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo`	`object`
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.metricName`	`string` The Compute Engine quota metric name.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.limitName`	`string` The name of the quota limit.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.dimensions`	`map (key: string, value: string)` The map holding related quota dimensions.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.limit`	`number` Current effective quota limit. The limit's unit depends on the quota type or metric.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.futureLimit`	`number` Future quota limit being rolled out. The limit's unit depends on the quota type or metric.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.rolloutStatus`	`enum` Rollout status of the future quota limit.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].help`	`object`
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].help.links[]`	`object` URL(s) pointing to additional information on handling the current error.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].help.links[].description`	`string` Describes what the link offers.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].help.links[].url`	`string` The URL of the link.
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].localizedMessage`	`object`
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].localizedMessage.locale`	`string` The locale used following the specification defined at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt. Examples are: "en-US", "fr-CH", "es-MX"
`error.errors[].errorDetails[].localizedMessage.message`	`string` The localized error message in the above locale.
`warnings[]`	`object` [Output Only] If warning messages are generated during processing of the operation, this field will be populated.
`warnings[].code`	`enum` [Output Only] A warning code, if applicable. For example, Compute Engine returns `NO_RESULTS_ON_PAGE` if there are no results in the response.
`warnings[].message`	`string` [Output Only] A human-readable description of the warning code.
`warnings[].data[]`	`object` [Output Only] Metadata about this warning in `key: value` format. For example: "data": [ { "key": "scope", "value": "zones/us-east1-d" }
`warnings[].data[].key`	`string` [Output Only] A key that provides more detail on the warning being returned. For example, for warnings where there are no results in a list request for a particular zone, this key might be `scope` and the key value might be the zone name. Other examples might be a key indicating a deprecated resource and a suggested replacement, or a warning about invalid network settings (for example, if an instance attempts to perform IP forwarding but is not enabled for IP forwarding).
`warnings[].data[].value`	`string` [Output Only] A warning data value corresponding to the key.
`httpErrorStatusCode`	`integer` [Output Only] If the operation fails, this field contains the HTTP error status code that was returned. For example, a `404` means the resource was not found.
`httpErrorMessage`	`string` [Output Only] If the operation fails, this field contains the HTTP error message that was returned, such as `NOT FOUND`.
`selfLink`	`string` [Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.
`region`	`string` [Output Only] The URL of the region where the operation resides. Only applicable when performing regional operations.
`description`	`string` [Output Only] A textual description of the operation, which is set when the operation is created.
`operationGroupId`	`string` [Output Only] An ID that represents a group of operations, such as when a group of operations results from a `bulkInsert` API request.
Union field `metadata`. [Output Only] Service-specific metadata attached to this operation. `metadata` can be only one of the following:
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata`	`object` [Output Only] If the operation is for projects.setCommonInstanceMetadata, this field will contain information on all underlying zonal actions and their state.
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.clientOperationId`	`string` [Output Only] The client operation id.
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[]`	`map (key: string, value: object)` [Output Only] Status information per location (location name is key). Example key: zones/us-central1-a
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].state`	`enum` [Output Only] Status of the action, which can be one of the following: `PROPAGATING`, `PROPAGATED`, `ABANDONED`, `FAILED`, or `DONE`.
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error`	`object` [Output Only] If state is `ABANDONED` or `FAILED`, this field is populated.
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error.code`	`integer` The status code, which should be an enum value of `google.rpc.Code`.
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error.message`	`string` A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the `google.rpc.Status.details` field, or localized by the client.
`setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error.details[]`	`object` A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use. An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field `"@type"` contains a URI identifying the type. Example: `{ "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }`.
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata`	`object`
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[]`	`map (key: string, value: object)` Status information per location (location name is key). Example key: zones/us-central1-a
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].status`	`enum` [Output Only] Creation status of instances.bulkInsert operation - information if the flow is rolling forward or rolling back.
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].targetVmCount`	`integer` [Output Only] Count of VMs originally planned to be created.
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].createdVmCount`	`integer` [Output Only] Count of VMs successfully created so far.
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].failedToCreateVmCount`	`integer` [Output Only] Count of VMs that started creating but encountered an error.
`instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].deletedVmCount`	`integer` [Output Only] Count of VMs that got deleted during rollback.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following IAM permissions:

compute.instances.setScheduling

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.