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  • Stopping a cluster
  • Starting a cluster
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Stopping and starting a Greenplum® cluster

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Updated at May 22, 2025
  • Stopping a cluster
  • Starting a cluster

You can stop and restart clusters, if required. You are not charged for the number of vCPUs and host RAM in a stopped cluster, but you continue to pay for cluster storage capacity and backups based on your plan.

Alert

If master hosts or cluster segment hosts use local SSD storage (local-ssd), their computing resources do not get freed up when the cluster stops. This means that you will be charged for such hosts in full, even on a stopped cluster.

Stopping a clusterStopping a cluster

Management console
CLI
REST API
gRPC API
  1. Navigate to the folder dashboard and select Managed Service for Greenplum.
  2. Find the cluster in the list, click the icon, and select Stop.
  3. Confirm that you want to stop the cluster and click Stop.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud (CLI) command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

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.

To stop a Greenplum® cluster, run the command:

yc managed-greenplum cluster stop <cluster_name_or_ID>

You can request the cluster ID and name with the list of clusters in the folder.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Use the Cluster.Stop method and send the following request, e.g., via cURL:

    curl \
        --request POST \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
        --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-greenplum/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:stop'
    

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  3. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Clone the cloudapi repository:

    cd ~/ && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi
    

    Below, we assume the repository contents are stored in the ~/cloudapi/ directory.

  3. Use the ClusterService.Stop call and send the following request, e.g., via gRPCurl:

    grpcurl \
        -format json \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
        -proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/mdb/greenplum/v1/cluster_service.proto \
        -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        -d '{
              "cluster_id": "<cluster_ID>"
            }' \
        mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 \
        yandex.cloud.mdb.greenplum.v1.ClusterService.Stop
    

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  4. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

Starting a clusterStarting a cluster

Management console
CLI
REST API
gRPC API
  1. Navigate to the folder dashboard and select Managed Service for Greenplum.
  2. Find the stopped cluster in the list, click the icon, and select Start.
  3. Confirm that you want to start the cluster and click Start.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud (CLI) command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

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.

To start a Greenplum® cluster, run the command below:

yc managed-greenplum cluster start <cluster_name_or_ID>

You can request the cluster ID and name with the list of clusters in the folder.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Use the Cluster.Start method and send the following request, e.g., via cURL:

    curl \
        --request POST \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
        --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-greenplum/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>:start'
    

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  3. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Clone the cloudapi repository:

    cd ~/ && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi
    

    Below, we assume the repository contents are stored in the ~/cloudapi/ directory.

  3. Use the ClusterService.Start call and send the following request, e.g., via gRPCurl:

    grpcurl \
        -format json \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
        -proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/mdb/greenplum/v1/cluster_service.proto \
        -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        -d '{
              "cluster_id": "<cluster_ID>"
            }' \
        mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 \
        yandex.cloud.mdb.greenplum.v1.ClusterService.Start
    

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  4. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

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