Google Cloud vCPU and Compute Engine are no longer a mystery. Read on to learn more about them. 

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our Google Cloud Platform Support Services.

Let’s take a look at how our GCP Support Team is ready to introduce customers to Google cloud vCPU & Compute engine.

What is Google cloud vCPU?

Google Cloud Platform offers a wide range of machine types to satisfy different requirements. Machine types offer virtual hardware resources accessible to a VM that differs according to the Google Cloud vCPU, memory size, and disk capacity. In fact, this leaves us with a wide range of options to choose from.

Furthermore, the different sets of machine types with various combinations of memory and processor configuration within each machine family ensure we find the perfect fit. However, some of our customers have lost their way while trying to pick the right Google Cloud machine for their requirements. This is where our Support Team has been able to step in and help them out.

A Google Cloud vCPU or virtual CPU is a physical CPU allotted to a virtual machine. Additionally, Compute Engine offers self-managed and flexible virtual machines hosted on Google’s infrastructure.

Moreover, all processors on Compute Engine have a single CPU core to run multiple hardware multithreads through SMT or Simultaneous multithreading. In fact, this is known as Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.

More About Google cloud Compute Engine & vCPUs

Interestingly, each hardware multithread on Compute Engine is called a vCPU. According to our experts, VM’s machine type plays a role in specifying the number of Google Cloud vCPU. Additionally, we can access the number of physical CPU cores via the vCPU per core ratio for that specific machine series.

Furthermore, we can ascertain the CPU platform for the instance by:

• Using the compute.instances.get method to access the cpuPlatform property of one of the existing instances.
• Checking the CPU platforms available in the available regions and zones.
• Running cat/proc/cpuinfo on Linux instances

If you are looking for a way to increase the vCPU limit in Google Cloud Platform, our Support Engineers recommend clicking the checkbox next to the Region, whose quote we want to modify. After that, click Edit Quotas and complete the form. Once you click the Submit Request the changes will come into effect in no time.

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Conclusion

In a nutshell, our skilled GCP Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to Google cloud vCPU & Compute Engine.