Creating an ultra high-speed network storage with three replicas (SSD)

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You can create an ultra high-speed network storage with three replicas (SSD), which is a high-performance SSD offering the same speed as a non-replicated SSD, plus redundancy.

The disk size must be a multiple of 93 GB.

Management console

CLI

API

In the management console, select the folder where you want to create a disk.
Select Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Disks.
Click Create disk.
Enter a name for the disk. The naming requirements are as follows:
- It must be from 2 to 63 characters long.
- It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
Add a description for the disk, if required.
Select the availability zone the disk will reside in.
Select SSD IO as the disk type.
Select the required block size.
Specify the required disk size.
Optionally, under Encryption:
- Select Encrypted disk.
- In the KMS key field, select the key you created earlier. To create a new key, click Create.
To create an encrypted disk, you need the kms.keys.user role or higher.

Warning

You can specify encryption settings only when creating a disk. You cannot disable or change disk encryption. You also cannot enable encryption for an existing disk.

If you deactivate the key used to encrypt a disk, image, or snapshot, access to the data will be suspended until you reactivate the key.

Alert

If you destroy the key or its version used to encrypt a disk, image, or snapshot, access to the data will be irrevocably lost. For details, see Destroying key versions.
Click Create disk.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI command for creating disks:
```
yc compute disk create --help
```
To create a high-performance disk named ssd-io-disk, run this command:
```
yc compute disk create \
  --name ssd-io-disk \
  --zone ru-central1-a \
  --type network-ssd-io-m3 \
  --size 93G \
  --kms-key-id <key_ID>
```
Where:
- --name: Disk name.
- --zone: Availability zone.
- --type: Disk type.
- --size: Disk size.
- --kms-key-id: ID of the KMS symmetric key to create en encrypted disk. This is an optional parameter.
  
  To create an encrypted disk, you need the kms.keys.user role or higher.
  
  Warning
  
  You can specify encryption settings only when creating a disk. You cannot disable or change disk encryption. You also cannot enable encryption for an existing disk.
  
  If you deactivate the key used to encrypt a disk, image, or snapshot, access to the data will be suspended until you reactivate the key.
  
  Alert
  
  If you destroy the key or its version used to encrypt a disk, image, or snapshot, access to the data will be irrevocably lost. For details, see Destroying key versions.
Result:
```
id: a7li08c1fd8l********
folder_id: aoerb349fdhb********
created_at: "2024-11-25T21:22:20Z"
name: ssd-io-disk
type_id: network-ssd-io-m3
zone_id: ru-central1-a
size: "99857989632"
block_size: "4096"
status: READY
disk_placement_policy: {}
hardware_generation:
  legacy_features:
    pci_topology: PCI_TOPOLOGY_V1
kms_key:
  key_id: abjbaqdga6hs********
  version_id: abj295dgqnlp********
```

Use the create REST API method for the Disk resource or the DiskService/Create gRPC API call.

Creating an ultra high-speed network storage with three replicas (SSD)

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