AttachedDisk

An instance-attached disk resource.

JSON representation
{
  "kind": string,
  "type": enum (DiskType),
  "mode": enum (DiskMode),
  "savedState": enum (DiskSavedState),
  "source": string,
  "deviceName": string,
  "index": integer,
  "boot": boolean,
  "initializeParams": {
    object (InitializeParams)
  },
  "autoDelete": boolean,
  "licenses": [
    string
  ],
  "interface": enum (DiskInterface),
  "guestOsFeatures": [
    {
      object (GuestOsFeature)
    }
  ],
  "diskEncryptionKey": {
    object (CustomerEncryptionKey)
  },
  "diskSizeGb": string,
  "shieldedInstanceInitialState": {
    object (InitialStateConfig)
  },
  "forceAttach": boolean,
  "architecture": enum (Architecture)
}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always

compute#attachedDisk

for attached disks.

type

enum (DiskType)

Specifies the type of the disk, either

SCRATCH

or

PERSISTENT

. If not specified, the default is

PERSISTENT

.

mode

enum (DiskMode)

The mode in which to attach this disk, either

READ_WRITE

or

READ_ONLY

. If not specified, the default is to attach the disk in

READ_WRITE

mode.

savedState

enum (DiskSavedState)

For LocalSSD disks on VM Instances in STOPPED or SUSPENDED state, this field is set to

PRESERVED

if the LocalSSD data has been saved to a persistent location by customer request. (see the discardLocalSsd option on Stop/Suspend). Read-only in the api.

source

string

Specifies a valid partial or full URL to an existing Persistent Disk resource. When creating a new instance boot disk, one of

initializeParams.sourceImage

or

initializeParams.sourceSnapshot

or

disks.source

is required.

If desired, you can also attach existing non-root persistent disks using this property. This field is only applicable for persistent disks.

Note that for InstanceTemplate, specify the disk name for zonal disk, and the URL for regional disk.

deviceName

string

Specifies a unique device name of your choice that is reflected into the

/dev/disk/by-id/google-*

tree of a Linux operating system running within the instance. This name can be used to reference the device for mounting, resizing, and so on, from within the instance.

If not specified, the server chooses a default device name to apply to this disk, in the form

persistent-disk-x

, where x is a number assigned by Google Compute Engine. This field is only applicable for persistent disks.

index

integer

[Output Only] A zero-based index to this disk, where 0 is reserved for the boot disk. If you have many disks attached to an instance, each disk would have a unique index number.

boot

boolean

Indicates that this is a boot disk. The virtual machine will use the first partition of the disk for its root filesystem.

initializeParams

object (InitializeParams)

[Input Only] Specifies the parameters for a new disk that will be created alongside the new instance. Use initialization parameters to create boot disks or local SSDs attached to the new instance.

This property is mutually exclusive with the

source

property; you can only define one or the other, but not both.

autoDelete

boolean

Specifies whether the disk will be auto-deleted when the instance is deleted (but not when the disk is detached from the instance).

licenses[]

string

[Output Only] Any valid publicly visible licenses.

interface

enum (DiskInterface)

Specifies the disk interface to use for attaching this disk, which is either

SCSI

or

NVME

. For most machine types, the default is

SCSI

. Local SSDs can use either NVME or SCSI. In certain configurations, persistent disks can use NVMe. For more information, see About persistent disks.

guestOsFeatures[]

object (GuestOsFeature)

A list of features to enable on the guest operating system. Applicable only for bootable images. Read Enabling guest operating system features to see a list of available options.

diskEncryptionKey

object (CustomerEncryptionKey)

Encrypts or decrypts a disk using a customer-supplied encryption key.

If you are creating a new disk, this field encrypts the new disk using an encryption key that you provide. If you are attaching an existing disk that is already encrypted, this field decrypts the disk using the customer-supplied encryption key.

If you encrypt a disk using a customer-supplied key, you must provide the same key again when you attempt to use this resource at a later time. For example, you must provide the key when you create a snapshot or an image from the disk or when you attach the disk to a virtual machine instance.

If you do not provide an encryption key, then the disk will be encrypted using an automatically generated key and you do not need to provide a key to use the disk later.

Note:

Instance templates do not store customer-supplied encryption keys, so you cannot use your own keys to encrypt disks in a managed instance group.

You cannot create VMs that have disks with customer-supplied keys using the bulk insert method.

diskSizeGb

string (int64 format)

The size of the disk in GB.

shieldedInstanceInitialState

object (InitialStateConfig)

[Output Only] shielded vm initial state stored on disk

forceAttach

boolean

[Input Only] Whether to force attach the regional disk even if it's currently attached to another instance. If you try to force attach a zonal disk to an instance, you will receive an error.

architecture

enum (Architecture)

[Output Only] The architecture of the attached disk. Valid values are ARM64 or X86_64.

DiskSavedState

Enums
DISK_SAVED_STATE_UNSPECIFIED [Default] Disk state has not been preserved.
PRESERVED Disk state has been preserved.

InitializeParams

[Input Only] Specifies the parameters for a new disk that will be created alongside the new instance. Use initialization parameters to create boot disks or local SSDs attached to the new instance.

This field is persisted and returned for instanceTemplate and not returned in the context of instance.

This property is mutually exclusive with the

source

property; you can only define one or the other, but not both.

JSON representation
{
  "diskName": string,
  "sourceImage": string,
  "diskSizeGb": string,
  "diskType": string,
  "sourceImageEncryptionKey": {
    object (CustomerEncryptionKey)
  },
  "labels": {
    string: string,
    ...
  },
  "sourceSnapshot": string,
  "sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey": {
    object (CustomerEncryptionKey)
  },
  "description": string,
  "replicaZones": [
    string
  ],
  "resourcePolicies": [
    string
  ],
  "onUpdateAction": enum (OnUpdateAction),
  "provisionedIops": string,
  "licenses": [
    string
  ],
  "architecture": enum (Architecture),
  "resourceManagerTags": {
    string: string,
    ...
  },
  "provisionedThroughput": string,
  "enableConfidentialCompute": boolean,
  "storagePool": string
}
Fields
diskName

string

Specifies the disk name. If not specified, the default is to use the name of the instance. If a disk with the same name already exists in the given region, the existing disk is attached to the new instance and the new disk is not created.

sourceImage

string

The source image to create this disk. When creating a new instance boot disk, one of

initializeParams.sourceImage

or

initializeParams.sourceSnapshot

or

disks.source

is required.

To create a disk with one of the public operating system images, specify the image by its family name. For example, specify

family/debian-9

to use the latest Debian 9 image:

projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-9

Alternatively, use a specific version of a public operating system image:

projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-9-stretch-vYYYYMMDD

To create a disk with a custom image that you created, specify the image name in the following format:

global/images/my-custom-image

You can also specify a custom image by its image family, which returns the latest version of the image in that family. Replace the image name with

family/family-name

:

global/images/family/my-image-family

If the source image is deleted later, this field will not be set.

diskSizeGb

string (int64 format)

Specifies the size of the disk in base-2 GB. The size must be at least 10 GB. If you specify a

sourceImage

, which is required for boot disks, the default size is the size of the

sourceImage

. If you do not specify a

sourceImage

, the default disk size is 500 GB.

diskType

string

Specifies the disk type to use to create the instance. If not specified, the default is

pd-standard

, specified using the full URL. For example:

https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone/diskTypes/pd-standard

For a full list of acceptable values, see Persistent disk types. If you specify this field when creating a VM, you can provide either the full or partial URL. For example, the following values are valid:

If you specify this field when creating or updating an instance template or all-instances configuration, specify the type of the disk, not the URL. For example:

pd-standard

.

sourceImageEncryptionKey

object (CustomerEncryptionKey)

The customer-supplied encryption key of the source image. Required if the source image is protected by a customer-supplied encryption key.

InstanceTemplate and InstancePropertiesPatch do not store customer-supplied encryption keys, so you cannot create disks for instances in a managed instance group if the source images are encrypted with your own keys.

labels

map (key: string, value: string)

Labels to apply to this disk. These can be later modified by the

disks.setLabels

method. This field is only applicable for persistent disks.

sourceSnapshot

string

The source snapshot to create this disk. When creating a new instance boot disk, one of

initializeParams.sourceSnapshot

or

initializeParams.sourceImage

or

disks.source

is required.

To create a disk with a snapshot that you created, specify the snapshot name in the following format:

global/snapshots/my-backup

If the source snapshot is deleted later, this field will not be set.

sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey

object (CustomerEncryptionKey)

The customer-supplied encryption key of the source snapshot.

description

string

An optional description. Provide this property when creating the disk.

replicaZones[]

string

Required for each regional disk associated with the instance. Specify the URLs of the zones where the disk should be replicated to. You must provide exactly two replica zones, and one zone must be the same as the instance zone.

resourcePolicies[]

string

Resource policies applied to this disk for automatic snapshot creations. Specified using the full or partial URL. For instance template, specify only the resource policy name.

onUpdateAction

enum (OnUpdateAction)

Specifies which action to take on instance update with this disk. Default is to use the existing disk.

provisionedIops

string (int64 format)

Indicates how many IOPS to provision for the disk. This sets the number of I/O operations per second that the disk can handle. Values must be between 10,000 and 120,000. For more details, see the Extreme persistent disk documentation.

licenses[]

string

A list of publicly visible licenses. Reserved for Google's use.

architecture

enum (Architecture)

The architecture of the attached disk. Valid values are arm64 or x86_64.

resourceManagerTags

map (key: string, value: string)

Resource manager tags to be bound to the disk. Tag keys and values have the same definition as resource manager tags. Keys must be in the format tagKeys/{tag_key_id}, and values are in the format tagValues/456. The field is ignored (both PUT & PATCH) when empty.

provisionedThroughput

string (int64 format)

Indicates how much throughput to provision for the disk. This sets the number of throughput mb per second that the disk can handle. Values must greater than or equal to 1.

enableConfidentialCompute

boolean

Whether this disk is using confidential compute mode.

storagePool

string

The storage pool in which the new disk is created. You can provide this as a partial or full URL to the resource. For example, the following are valid values:

OnUpdateAction

LINT.IfChange(OnUpdateAction) The action to take with this disk on instance update.

Enums
USE_EXISTING_DISK Use the existing disk, this is the default behaviour.
RECREATE_DISK Always recreate the disk.
RECREATE_DISK_IF_SOURCE_CHANGED Recreate the disk if source (image, snapshot) of this disk is different from source of existing disk.