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+#  Copyright 2022 Google LLC
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+from copy import deepcopy
+import uuid
+
+import google.api_core.exceptions
+import google.auth
+from google.cloud import compute_v1
+import pytest
+
+from samples.snippets.instances.create_start_instance.create_windows_instance import \
+    get_image_from_family
+
+from ..disks.delete import delete_disk
+from ..disks.list import list_disks
+
+PROJECT = google.auth.default()[1]
+ZONE = "europe-north1-c"
+
+
+def test_request_id():
+    disk = compute_v1.Disk()
+    disk.size_gb = 20
+    disk.name = "test-disk-" + uuid.uuid4().hex[:10]
+    disk.zone = ZONE
+    disk.type_ = f"zones/{ZONE}/diskTypes/pd-standard"
+    disk.source_image = get_image_from_family("debian-cloud", "debian-11").self_link
+
+    disk2 = deepcopy(disk)
+    disk2.name = "test-disk-" + uuid.uuid4().hex[:10]
+
+    request = compute_v1.InsertDiskRequest()
+    request.request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    request.project = PROJECT
+    request.zone = ZONE
+    request.disk_resource = disk
+
+    # Creating a different request, but with the same request_id
+    # This should not be executed, because the previous request
+    # has the same ID.
+    request2 = deepcopy(request)
+    request2.disk_resource = disk2
+
+    disk_client = compute_v1.DisksClient()
+    try:
+        operation = disk_client.insert(request)
+        operation2 = disk_client.insert(request2)
+        operation.result()
+        operation2.result()
+    except Exception as err:
+        pytest.fail(f"There was an error: {err}")
+        raise err
+    else:
+        disks = list_disks(PROJECT, ZONE)
+        assert any(i_disk.name == disk.name for i_disk in disks)
+        assert all(i_disk.name != disk2.name for i_disk in disks)
+    finally:
+        delete_disk(PROJECT, ZONE, disk.name)
+        try:
+            delete_disk(PROJECT, ZONE, disk2.name)
+        except google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound:
+            pass
+
+
+def test_request_id_op_id():
+    disk = compute_v1.Disk()
+    disk.size_gb = 20
+    disk.name = "test-disk-" + uuid.uuid4().hex[:10]
+    disk.zone = ZONE
+    disk.type_ = f"zones/{ZONE}/diskTypes/pd-standard"
+    disk.source_image = get_image_from_family("debian-cloud", "debian-11").self_link
+
+    request = compute_v1.InsertDiskRequest()
+    request.request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    request.project = PROJECT
+    request.zone = ZONE
+    request.disk_resource = disk
+
+    disk_client = compute_v1.DisksClient()
+
+    try:
+        op1 = disk_client.insert(request)
+        op2 = disk_client.insert(request)
+        op1.result()
+        assert op1.name == op2.name
+    finally:
+        delete_disk(PROJECT, ZONE, disk.name)