You want to implement live migration for your VM instances to achieve higher availability. Which of the following VM types support live migration in GCP?
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Correct answer: All, except Preemptible VMs..
Why this is the answer
Live migration is a key feature for maintaining high availability in GCP, allowing Google to perform infrastructure maintenance without interrupting your running VM instances. This capability is supported by most standard VM types, including E2, N1, N2, N2D, C2, C2D, M1, M2, and A2 machine types. Preemptible VMs, by their nature, are designed for short, fault-tolerant workloads and can be terminated at any time with 30 seconds' notice. Therefore, they do not support live migration. E2 VMs, N2, C2, and M1 VMs are all examples of VM types that do support live migration, but they are not the only ones. Sole-tenant nodes can host VMs that support live migration, but "sole-tenant nodes only" is too restrictive.
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