gce/Terminate On Host Maintenance

Investigate the cause of termination related to host maintenance

Product: Compute Engine
Step Type: AUTOMATED STEP

Description

Termination on host maintenance is normal behavior. This step verifies if it was expected. This will typically happen during a failed live migration.

Failure Reason

{status_message}

Failure Remediation

Instance {full_resource_path} maintenance policy is set to TERMINATE, Compute Engine stops your VM when there is a maintenance event where Google must move

If you want to change your VM’s onHostMaintenance policy to restart automatically or live migrate [1]. Read more about Host Events [2] and how to set your termination policies[3].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migration-process [2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/setting-vm-host-options [3] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/host-maintenance-overview