Attempt to delete a reservation's compact placement policy
The following error occurs when you try to delete a reservation's
compact placement policy
before deleting the reservation.
Error message:
The resource_policy resource 'projects/PROJECT_ID/regions/REGION/resourcePolicies/COMPACT_PLACEMENT_POLICY_NAME' is already being used by 'projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/ZONE/reservations/RESERVATION_NAME'
Resolution: To delete a compact placement policy specified in a reservation,
select one of the following methods:
If you created the reservation by specifying an instance template, follow
these steps:
Attempt to downsize a specific reservation to less VMs than the targeted number
The following error occurs when you try to decrease the number of reserved VMs
in a
specific reservation
to a number that is lower than the number of VMs that consume the reservation.
Error message:
The resize instance count cannot be lower than the in use count for a specific reservation.
Resolution: To ensure that the number of VMs in the specific reservation is
equal to or lower than the number of VMs that consume the reservation, do one of
the following with the VMs in excess:
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