Migrate Google compute engine instance to a different region

Question

I am trying to migrate a couple of compute engine instances from Europe to Asia. I need to do this because most of the users for those servers are in Asia and they get faster access to servers in their region. I am trying following command.

gcloud compute instances move asiawindows1 --zone europe-west1-d  --destination-zone asia-east1-c

I get following error when I try this

Instances belonging to subnetworks cannot be moved interregionally.

What is the best way to move these servers without manually setting them up in the Asia zone?

Answer 1

Follow steps below in Google Cloud Platform

1. Create snapshot of your VM instance
2. Create disk with this snapshot
3. Create image with disk created
4. Create a new instance using the image created in steps above and change your zone