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GCP Convert Standard to SSD

August 20, 2019

How to convert Persistent Standard disk to SSD.

First create a snapshot of the disk.

gcloud compute disks snapshot your-server \
--snapshot-names manual-snapshot-disk-1 \
--project your-project \
--zone us-central1-c

gcloud compute disks snapshot your-server \ --snapshot-names manual-snapshot-disk-1 \ --project your-project \ --zone us-central1-c

Restore snapshot to SSD format.

gcloud compute disks create disk-1-ssd \
--source-snapshot manual-snapshot-disk-1 \
--project your-project \
--zone us-central1-a \
--type pd-ssd \
--size 10GB

gcloud compute disks create disk-1-ssd \ --source-snapshot manual-snapshot-disk-1 \ --project your-project \ --zone us-central1-a \ --type pd-ssd \ --size 10GB

Swap disks using GCP attach and detach.

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