renaming vm
make it as easy as EC2 :)

Hey all – we’re excited to announce the public beta for renaming a VM. You can try it out by running:
$ gcloud beta compute instances set-name CURRENT_NAME —zone=ZONE —new-name=NEW_NAME
For this first version, you’ll need to stop the VM before you rename it.
More details at the docs here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/rename-instance
As always, feedback welcome. We’re working on GA’ing this feature soon, which will include adding support in the Developer Console UI.
71 comments
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Neeraj Tiwari commented
Nk
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Aulo commented
Wow nearly 2021, and this feature still not available. I mean what's the point of not being able to rename it.
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Merton commented
Requested in 2015 and 5 years later, still waiting for such a simple feature. It's a bit disappointing.
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Nima Chavoshi commented
Hi guys, truly ridiculous that user can NOT change the name of Instance !!! probably that is Google strategy to somehow make more money by pushing users to re-create the VM if "renaming" is required!
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Anonymous commented
Guys this feature is taking too much time , Can we implement a very simple rename of VM
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Nebi Arianto commented
please update simple issue (rename)
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정동호 commented
The name defined by a human can be easily changed, so it should be decoupled with the internal system. Thus the name should be coupled with something like id and the internal system should depend on the id. But they didn't D:
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정동호 commented
I couldn't get it. I thought the google engineer team consists of genius guys, but wow, it still doesn't support the very basic feature like renaming?? What a disappointment... this is absolutely the design flaw
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Tom Perrine commented
Nine years later and still no renaming? This is as bad as DHCP6 support on Android.
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David Dupuis commented
Yes please , the ability to rename the instance should be in the product . thanks
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John commented
It's been 9 months. Can we please get this support? Do you need help doing it??? Thanks!
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Patrice Robitaille commented
How this was not planned from the beginning?
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Hesham Abboud commented
+1
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Zaphod Beeblebrox commented
This is very frustrating. You should just be able to rename the instance, how basic is that ?! A truly terrible interface. My server has been stuck with the name "whatever test" for nine months !
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Anonymous commented
+1 it's tiring to create snapshots just to rename a vm
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Alex commented
Please +1
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Tiger commented
They need to find an intern to make it happen. Employees are busy working on things with "impact".
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Bathinda commented
I voted this feature up.
But what's the meaning that I only have 20 chances of voting up? -
AL commented
Really? Can we please have this ASAP? Going through 4-5 steps (Snapshot, clone, settings...) to do this is ridiculous and error prone when working with multiple instances!
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Danila commented
Please enable renaming vm asap, I really need it