Change machine type and configure GPUs of a managed notebooks instance

Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks is deprecated . On April 14, 2025, support for managed notebooks will end and the ability to create managed notebooks instances will be removed. Existing instances will continue to function but patches, updates, and upgrades won't be available. To continue using Vertex AI Workbench, we recommend that you migrate your managed notebooks instances to Vertex AI Workbench instances .

This page shows you how to change the machine type and GPU configuration of a managed notebooks instance.

Overview

The machine type determines some specifications of your managed notebooks instance, such as the amount of memory, virtual cores, and persistent disk limits. Changing the machine type can improve performance or help avoid errors caused by high memory utilization.

GPUs provide hardware acceleration that can improve the performance of your notebook code. You may want to add or increase the number of GPUs for greater performance, or, to reduce the cost of running your managed notebooks instance, you may want to remove GPUs.

Before you change a machine type or GPU configuration

Consider the following before you make any changes to your managed notebooks instance's machine type or GPU configuration.

Billing implications

Each machine type and GPU configuration is billed at a different rate. Make sure you understand the pricing implications of making a change. For example, an e2-highmem-2 machine type costs more than an e2-standard-2 machine type.

Changing a machine type might also affect sustained use discounts. Sustained use discounts are calculated separately for different categories in the same region. If you change machine types so that the new machine type is in a different category, the subsequent running time of your instance's VM counts toward the sustained use discount of the new category.

Moving to a smaller machine type

If you move from a machine type with more resources to a machine type with fewer resources, such as moving from an e2-standard-8 machine type to an e2-standard-2 , you might run into hardware resource issues or performance limitations because smaller machine types are less powerful than larger machine types.

Change the machine type and configure GPUs

To change the machine type or configure the GPUs on a managed notebooks instance, complete the following steps:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Managed notebookspage.

   Go to Managed notebooks

2. In the Notebook namecolumn, click the name of the instance that you want to modify.

   The Notebook detailspage opens.

3. Click the Hardwaretab.

4. In the Modify hardware configurationsection, select the Machine typethat you want to use.

5. If there are GPUs available for your instance's combination of zone, environment, and machine type, you can configure the GPUs. In the GPUssection, select the GPU typeand Number of GPUsthat you want to use. Learn more about GPU regions and zone availability .

6. If you haven't already installed the required GPU drivers on your instance, select Install NVIDIA GPU driver automatically for meto install the drivers automatically on next startup.

7. Click submit to confirm changes.

What's next

• Learn more about the available GPU platforms .