GCP Create Disk from Snapshot by Ulysses · May 1, 2019 Here’s how to create a disk from a snapshot via Google SDK. gcloud compute disks create new-server-disk-2 \ --project=project-name \ --source-snapshot=server-disk-2 \ --zone=us-central1-bgcloud compute disks create new-server-disk-2 \ --project=project-name \ --source-snapshot=server-disk-2 \ --zone=us-central1-b