Creating a group of dedicated hosts
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Updated at October 17, 2024
You can create a group of dedicated hosts that is intended solely for hosting your VMs in Yandex Cloud.
By default, the cloud has a zero quota for using dedicated hosts. To change the quota, contact technical support.
To create a group of dedicated hosts:
CLI
API
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.
The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.
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See the list of available dedicated host types:
yc compute host-type listResult:
+------------------------------+-------+--------------+-------+---------------+ | ID | CORES | MEMORY | DISKS | DISK SIZE | +------------------------------+-------+--------------+-------+---------------+ ... | intel-6338-c108-m704-n3200x6 | 108 | 755914244096 | 6 | 3198924357632 | +------------------------------+-------+--------------+-------+---------------+ -
Create a group of dedicated hosts of the selected type. A group may contain one or more hosts.
yc compute host-group create \ --fixed-size <number_of_dedicated_hosts_in_group> \ --type <dedicated_host_type> \ --zone <availability_zone>Where:
--fixed-size: Number of dedicated hosts in the group.--type: Type of dedicated hosts.--zone: Availability zone to place the group in.
Result:
done (6s) id: abcdefg1hi23******** folder_id: m4n56op78mev******** created_at: "2020-10-13T07:36:49Z" zone_id: ru-central1-a status: READY type_id: intel-6230-c66-m454 maintenance_policy: RESTART scale_policy: fixed_scale: size: "2"
- Select the host type using the list REST API method for the HostType resource or the HostTypeService/List gRPC API call.
- Create a group of dedicated hosts using the create REST API method for the HostGroup resource or the HostGroupService/Create gRPC API call.