$ gcloud alpha compute disks create my-disk-1 my-disk-2 \
    --zone us-east1-a

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

DISK_NAME [DISK_NAME ...]

Names of the disks to create.

FLAGS

--csek-key-file=FILE

Path to a Customer-Supplied Encryption Key (CSEK) key file, mapping Google Compute Engine resources to user managed keys to be used when creating, mounting, or snapshotting disks.
If you pass - as value of the flag the CSEK will be read from stdin. See cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplied-encryption for more details.

--description=DESCRIPTION

An optional, textual description for the disks being created.

--guest-os-features=[GUEST_OS_FEATURE,...]

This parameter enables one or more features for VM instances that use the image for their boot disks. The following features are available:

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MULTI_IP_SUBNET - For configuring interfaces with a netmask other than /32.

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SECURE_BOOT - Enables UEFI secure boot, which restrics unsigned software from booting or unsigned drivers from loading on the VM instance.

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UEFI_COMPATIBLE - Enables UEFI booting, which is an alternative system boot method. Most public images use the GRUB bootloader as their primary boot method.

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VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE - Enables multiqueue SCSI capabilities for Local SSD devices. This option is an alternative to NVMe.

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For Linux images, you can enable VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE on images with kernel versions 3.17 and higher.

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For Windows images, you can enable VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE on images with driver version 1.2.0.1621 or higher.

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WINDOWS - Required for Windows Server images. Newer public images for Windows server include the WINDOWS parameter to indicate that it is a Windows image.

GUEST_OS_FEATURE must be one of: MULTI_IP_SUBNET, SECURE_BOOT, UEFI_COMPATIBLE, VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE, WINDOWS.

--labels=[KEY=VALUE,...]

List of label KEY=VALUE pairs to add.
Keys must start with a lowercase character and contain only hyphens (-), underscores (_), lowercase characters, and numbers. Values must contain only hyphens (-), underscores (_), lowercase characters, and numbers.

--licenses=[LICENSE,...]

A list of URIs to license resources. The provided licenses will be added onto the created disks to indicate the licensing and billing policies.

--replica-zones=ZONE,ZONE

A comma-separated list of exactly 2 zones that a regional disk will be replicated to. Required when creating regional disk. The zones must be in the same region as specified in the --region flag. See available zones with gcloud compute zones list.

--require-csek-key-create

Refuse to create resources not protected by a user managed key in the key file when --csek-key-file is given. This behavior is enabled by default to prevent incorrect gcloud invocations from accidentally creating resources with no user managed key. Disabling the check allows creation of some resources without a matching Customer-Supplied Encryption Key in the supplied --csek-key-file. See cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplied-encryption for more details. Enabled by default, use --no-require-csek-key-create to disable.

--resource-policies=[RESOURCE_POLICY,...]

A list of resource policy names to be added to the disk. The policies must exist in the same region as the disk.

--size=SIZE

Size of the disks. The value must be a whole number followed by a size unit of GB for gigabyte, or TB for terabyte. If no size unit is specified, GB is assumed. For example, 10GB will produce 10 gigabyte disks. Disk size must be a multiple of 1 GB. Limit your boot disk size to 2TB to account for MBR partition table limitations. If disk size is not specified, the default size of 500GB for standard disks and 100GB for pd-ssd disks will be used.

--type=TYPE

Specifies the type of disk to create. To get a list of available disk types, run gcloud compute disk-types list. The default disk type is pd-standard.

--image-project=IMAGE_PROJECT

The project against which all image and image family references will be resolved. It is best practice to define image-project.

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If specifying one of our public images, image-project must be provided.

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If there are several of the same image-family value in multiple projects, image-project must be specified to clarify the image to be used.

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If not specified and either image or image-family is provided, the current default project is used.

At most one of these may be specified:

--image=IMAGE

An image to apply to the disks being created. When using this option, the size of the disks must be at least as large as the image size. Use --size to adjust the size of the disks.
This flag is mutually exclusive with --source-snapshot and --image-family.

--image-family=IMAGE_FAMILY

The family of the image that the boot disk will be initialized with. When a family is used instead of an image, the latest non-deprecated image associated with that family is used.

--source-snapshot=SOURCE_SNAPSHOT

Source snapshot used to create the disks. It is safe to delete a snapshot after a disk has been created from the snapshot. In such cases, the disks will no longer reference the deleted snapshot. To get a list of snapshots in your current project, run gcloud compute snapshots list. A snapshot from an existing disk can be created using the gcloud compute disks snapshot command. This flag is mutually exclusive with --image.
When using this option, the size of the disks must be at least as large as the snapshot size. Use --size to adjust the size of the disks.

Key resource - The Cloud KMS (Key Management Service) cryptokey that will be used to protect the disk. The arguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes of this resource.

--kms-key=KMS_KEY

ID of the key or fully qualified identifier for the key. This flag must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.

--kms-keyring=KMS_KEYRING

The KMS keyring of the key.

--kms-location=KMS_LOCATION

The Cloud location for the key.

--kms-project=KMS_PROJECT

The Cloud project for the key.

At most one of these may be specified:

--region=REGION

Region of the disks to create. If not specified, you may be prompted to select a region.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/region property:

$ gcloud config set compute/region REGION

A list of regions can be fetched by running:

$ gcloud compute regions list

To unset the property, run:

$ gcloud config unset compute/region

Alternatively, the region can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION.

--zone=ZONE

Zone of the disks to create. If not specified and the compute/zone property isn't set, you may be prompted to select a zone.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/zone property:

$ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running:

$ gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

$ gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

NOTES

$ gcloud compute disks create $ gcloud beta compute disks create