Google Cloud VMware Engine is currently available in twelve different regions around the world. The pricing varies depending on the region, and organizations can pay for resources on-demand or prepaid one-year or three-year up front. Choosing an appropriate region to deploy Google Cloud VMware Engine is important to ensure that end users can enjoy the service with minimal latency and other potential performance issues.
Note - Not all Google Cloud native services are available in all regions, so proper region selection is crucial to make sure the required services are available for the developers and end users.
Once an appropriate region has been selected, the first step to getting started with Google Cloud VMware Engine is to enable the VMware Engine API for a Google Cloud project in the Google Cloud Console.
The Google Cloud project where the VMware Engine API is enabled must have a quota of nodes, which is the maximum number of nodes that can be used depending on availability. A VMware Engine node quota is assigned per Cloud project, per region. A Cloud project also has a global node quota, which is the total number of nodes that can be used across all regions. To determine an appropriate quota of nodes, organizations must determine the number of private clouds that are needed, and the number of nodes needed per private cloud. Sizing before deployment is important as organizations may need to submit a quota increase request to Google Cloud.
