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Accessing disk of TPU in zone with no capacity

tbirch
New Member

I have a TPU VM that I last used in April. When I try start it now I get:

"There is no more capacity in the zone "asia-east1-c"; you can try in another zone where Cloud TPU Nodes are offered (see https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/regions) [EID: 0xa4caf2ea47ece68e]"

Is there any way to access the data? All the docs about migrating VMs don't seem to apply to TPU VMs.

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grobledo
Former Googler

I recommend you to open a Support Case through the Support Hub, this forum is intended for general questions about the GCP products.

Hi @tbirch, thanks for your question. Given this related to our recent session on Managing Capacity, Quota, and Stockouts in the Cloud, we addressed the question during the Q&A. You can see the response below, from the Q&A section in our recap post under #2, as well as in the live session replay here (22:15).

"It sounds like you were able to use the TPU or “Tensor Processing Unit,” but after shutting it down, you weren’t able to relaunch it. This is a classic example of capacity being dynamic in the cloud.

This message says there are no TPUs currently available in asia-east1-c. This means zone “C” in region asia-east1.

You can wait some time and try again later, or you can try another zone if you need to stay in that region. The message contains the URL to check what other zones have TPUs in them."