{"id":13040,"date":"2018-06-12T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2018-06-12T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:49:25","slug":"sole-tenant-nodes-to-google-clouds-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/sole-tenant-nodes-to-google-clouds-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole-tenant nodes to Google Cloud&#8217;s rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to put Google in line with Amazon and Microsoft, Google Cloud has announced that it&#8217;s using sole-tenant nodes in its Compute Engine to help customers run multiple instances of various sizes without sharing hardware hosts with other projects.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to compliance regulations, the cloud giant hopes that the sole-tenant nodes will help regulated industries separate their compute resources in the cloud.<\/p>\n<h2>Accommodating virtual machines<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0<code>n1-node-96-624<\/code>node type is available in multiple\u00a0zones, and has\u00a096 vCPUs and 624 GB of system memory.<\/p>\n<p>The node size can accommodate virtual machine (VM) instances with up to 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of system memory, and customers will be able to fill the node with multiple smaller VM instances with various sizes including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/machine-types#custom_machine_types\">custom machine types<\/a>\u00a0and instances via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/instances\/creating-instance-with-custom-machine-type#extendedmemory\">extended memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The instances that the nodes are run on must have at least two vCPUs, and when a node is full, customers will not be able to schedule additional instances.<\/p>\n<h2>Compute Engine features<\/h2>\n<p>According to Google Cloud&#8217;s blog post, the sole-tenant nodes are compatible with the existing Compute Engine features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If your node&#8217;s host system requires maintenance, the node and all of the instances on the node continue to operate while they\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/instances\/live-migration\">live migrate<\/a>\u00a0to updated host hardware.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/pricing#sustained_use\">Sustained use discounts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/pricing#committed_use\">committed use discounts<\/a>\u00a0reduce the costs of your sole-tenant nodes. Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/pricing#nodes\">sole-tenant node pricing<\/a>\u00a0to learn how discounts apply to sole-tenant nodes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/vpc\/docs\/vpc\">VPC networks<\/a>\u00a0work with instances running on sole-tenant nodes the same way that they work with normal VM instances. You can use VPC networks to establish network connections between sole-tenant instances and normal VM instances.<\/li>\n<li>Use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/instances\/creating-instance-with-custom-machine-type\">custom machine types<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/machine-types#predefined_machine_types\">predefined machine types<\/a>\u00a0to create instances on your sole-tenant nodes. Because you already pay for the vCPUs and system memory of the node itself, you do not pay extra for these instances.<\/li>\n<li>Create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/instance-groups\/\">managed instance groups<\/a>\u00a0on your node groups. Your managed instance groups can use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/compute\/docs\/autoscaler\/\">autoscaling<\/a>\u00a0while running on sole-tenant nodes, but the node groups cannot automatically scale.<\/li>\n<li>Combine VMs with multiple machine types on each node. You can use a mix of different machine types and custom machine types on the same node until the node reaches its vCPU and system memory limit, which is defined by the node type.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Companies that aren&#8217;t highly regulated may also find nodes helpful for picking their location setting and deciding where they want their instances to run via user-defined labels.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to put Google in line with Amazon and Microsoft, Google Cloud announces that it&#8217;s using sole-tenant nodes in its Compute Engine to help customers run multiple instances of various sizes without sharing hardware hosts with other projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1522,180,1546,2863,2865,2864,2071,1905],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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