Create a VM with disks restored from snapshots

1. In the management console, select the folder to create your VM in.

2. In the list of services, select Compute Cloud.

3. In the left-hand panel, select Virtual machines.

4. Click Create virtual machine.

5. Under Boot disk image:

   • Go to the Custom tab.
   • Click , and in the window that opens, select Create new.
   • In the Contents field, select Snapshot and then select the disk snapshot you need from the list below. Employ filters as needed.
   • Enter a name for the boot disk to create.
   • Select the disk type.
   • Specify the required disk size and block size.
   • (Optional) In the Additional field, enable Delete along with the virtual machine if you need to automatically delete this disk when deleting the VM.
   • Click Add disk.

6. Under Location, select an availability zone to place your VM in.

7. Add a secondary disk:

   • Under Disks and file storages, click Add.
   • In the window that opens, select Disk → Create new.
   • In the Contents field, select Snapshot.
   • Enter a name for the disk to create.
   • Select the disk type.
   • Specify the required disk size and block size.
   • (Optional) In the Additional field, enable Delete along with the virtual machine if you need to automatically delete this disk when deleting the VM.
   • Click Add disk.

8. (Optional) To encrypt a boot disk or a secondary disk, under Disks and file storages, click to the right of the disk name and set encryption parameters for the disk:

   • Select Encrypted disk.
   • In the KMS key field, select the key to encrypt the disk with. To create a new key, click Create new key.
   • In the Service account field, select a service account with the kms.keys.encrypterDecrypter role for the specified key. To create a service account, click Create new account.

   The encryption feature in Compute Cloud is currently at the Preview stage. To access it, open the resource creation page and click Request access under Encryption or contact support.

   If you deactivate the key used to encrypt a disk 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 or snapshot, access to the data will be irrevocably lost. Learn more in Destroying key versions.

9. (Optional) Connect a file storage:

   • Under Disks and file storages, click Add.

     • In the window that opens, select File storage and select the storage you want to connect from the list.

       If you do not have any file storages, click Create file storage to create a new one.

     • Click Add file storage.

10. Under Computing resources, select a preset configuration or create a new one. To create a configuration:

    • Go to the Custom tab.
    • Choose a platform.
    • Specify the guaranteed share and required number of vCPUs, as well as RAM size.
    • Enable a software-accelerated network if needed.
    • If required, make your VM preemptible.

11. Under Network settings:

    • In the Subnet field, enter the ID of a subnet in the new VM’s availability zone. Alternatively, you can select a cloud network from the list.

      • Each network must have at least one subnet. If there is no subnet, create one by selecting Create subnet.

      • If you do not have a network, click Create network to create one:

        • In the window that opens, enter the network name and select the folder to host the network.
        • (Optional) Select the Create subnets option to automatically create subnets in all availability zones.
        • Click Create network.

    • In the Public IP field, choose a method for assigning an IP address:

      • Auto: Assign a random IP address from the Yandex Cloud IP address pool. In this case, you can enable DDoS protection using the option below.
      • List: Select a public IP address from the list of previously reserved static addresses. For more information, see Converting a dynamic public IP address to static.
      • No address: Do not assign a public IP address.

    • Select the appropriate security groups. If you leave this field empty, the default security group will be assigned to the VM.

    • Expand the Additional section and select a method for internal IP address assignment in the Internal IPv4 address field:

      • Auto: Assign a random IP address from the pool of IP addresses available in the selected subnet.
      • List: Select a private IP address from the list of previously reserved IP addresses. Click Reserve to reserve a private IP address in the selected subnet if needed.
      • Enable the DDoS protection option, if needed. The option is available if you previously selected the automatic IP assignment method in the public address settings.

    • (Optional) Create records for the VM in the DNS zone:

      • Expand the DNS settings for internal addresses section and click Add record.
      • Specify the zone, FQDN, and TTL for the record. When setting the FQDN, you can select Detect automatically for the zone.
        You can add multiple records to internal DNS zones. For more information, see Cloud DNS integration with Compute Cloud.
      • To create another record, click Add record.

    If you want to attach an additional network interface to your VM, click Add network interface and repeat the settings from this step for the new interface. You can add up to eight network interfaces to a single VM.

12. Under Access, specify the data for access to the VM:

    • (Optional) Enable VM access via OS Login. The option is available for Linux images from Cloud Marketplace with OS Login in their names.

    • Enter the username into the Login field.

      Alert

      Do not use root or other usernames reserved by the OS. To perform operations requiring superuser permissions, use the sudo command.

    • In the SSH key field, paste the contents of the public key file. You need to create a key pair for the SSH connection yourself. To learn how, see Connecting to a VM via SSH.

    If you want to add several users with SSH keys to the VM at the same time, specify these users' data under Metadata. You can also use metadata to install additional software on a VM when creating it.

    In public Linux images provided by Yandex Cloud, the functionality of connecting over SSH using login and password is disabled by default.

13. Under General information, specify the VM name:

    • The name must be from 3 to 63 characters long.
    • It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
    • The first character must be a letter and the last character cannot be a hyphen.

    Note

    The VM name is used to generate an internal FQDN only once: when creating a VM. If the internal FQDN is important to you, choose an appropriate name for the VM at the creation stage.

14. Under Additional:

    • (Optional) Select or create a service account. With a service account, you can flexibly configure access rights for your resources.

    • (Optional) Grant access to the serial console.

    • (Optional) Under Backup, enable Connect and select or create a backup policy to back up your VMs automatically using Cloud Backup.

      For more information, see Connecting Compute Cloud VMs to Cloud Backup.

    • (Optional) Under Monitoring, enable the Agent for delivering metrics option to configuire delivery of metrics to Yandex Monitoring.

    • (Optional) Under Placement, select a VM placement group.

15. Click Create VM.

The VM instance will appear in the list. When a VM is created, it is assigned an IP address and host name (FQDN).