You have a virtual machine that is currently configured with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory. It is running out of memory. You want to upgrade the virtual machine to have 8 GB of memory. What should you do

The correct answer is D. Stop the VM, increase the memory to 8 GB, and start the VM.. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/creating-instance-with-custom-machine- type#add_extended_memory_to_an_existing_vm_instance

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You have a virtual machine that is currently configured with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory. It is running out of memory. You want to upgrade the virtual machine to have 8 GB of memory. What should you do?

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ARely on live migration to move the workload to a machine with more memory.
BUse gcloud to add metadata to the VM. Set the key to and the value
CStop the VM, change the machine type to n1-standard-8, and start the VM.
DStop the VM, increase the memory to 8 GB, and start the VM.

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Explanation

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/creating-instance-with-custom-machine- type#add_extended_memory_to_an_existing_vm_instance

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#Compute Engine#machine type#VM resize#memory upgrade

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