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Issue:
Google public doc Vertex AI Workbench instances: Unable to edit underlying virtual machine mentions that:

When you try to edit the underlying virtual machine (VM) of a Vertex AI Workbench instance, you might get an error message similar to the following: Current principal doesn't have permission to mutate this resource.

To edit a Vertex AI Workbench instance's underlying VM, use the projects.locations.instances.patch method in the Notebooks API or the gcloud workbench instances update command in the Google Cloud SDK

However, there is no way to add a label to the (boot or data) disks of the underlying VMs. Not even with the Notebook API patch or update methods and neither with the gcloud workbench instances update

What you expected to happen:
Ideally this should be possible from the Google Console, otherwise at least an API method should be available.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a workbench instance in Vertex AI.
2. Go to System --> VM details --> View in Compute Engine
3. VM instances --> Details --> Storage --> Boot Disks
4. Choose a boot disk, then click Edit.
5. Labels --> click Add labels.
6. Enter Key, value pair label.
7. Try to save and you will get an error.

Other information (workarounds you have tried, documentation consulted, etc): I was able to resize the Boot Disk using the Notebooks API But I don't think it's possible to add a label to the bootDisk

I reached out to the Google Engineers and they asked to create this Feature Request.