Moving a VM to another cloud

You cannot move a VM to another cloud; however, you can create an image from its boot disk and then create a VM from this image in another cloud.

1. Use a boot disk of your VM to create an image.

2. Get the boot disk image ID:

   Management console

   CLI

   API

   1. In the management console, select the folder the disk image is in.
   2. Select Compute Cloud.
   3. In the left-hand panel, select Images.
   4. Copy the value from the ID column of a relevant image.

   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.

   Get a list of all the disks in the default folder:

   yc compute image list
   

   Result:

   +----------------------+----------------+--------+-------------+--------+
   |          ID          |    NAME        | FAMILY | PRODUCT IDS | STATUS |
   +----------------------+----------------+--------+-------------+--------+
   | xc8n3spmksqm******** | original-image |        |             | READY  |
   +----------------------+----------------+--------+-------------+--------+
   

   Use the list REST API method for the Image resource or the ImageService/List gRPC API call.

3. Get an ID of the cloud hosting the folder with the image:

   Management console

   CLI

   API

   1. In the management console, click the cloud in the list on the left.
   2. On the Overview tab, copy the value from the ID field.

   Retrieve a list of clouds with their IDs:

   yc resource-manager cloud list
   

   Result:

   +----------------------+------------+--------------------------+
   |          ID          |    NAME    |      ORGANIZATION ID     |
   +----------------------+------------+--------------------------+
   | b1g66mft1vop******** | my-cloud-1 |                          |
   | b1gd129pp9ha******** | my-cloud-2 |                          |
   +----------------------+------------+--------------------------+
   

   To get the list of clouds with IDs, use the list REST API method for the Cloud resource or the CloudService/List gRPC API call.

4. Add a user from the target cloud (where you want to move the VM instance) to the cloud hosting the folder with the source image.

5. Assign the target cloud user the resource-manager.clouds.member and compute.images.user roles for the cloud hosting the folder with the source image.

6. Create a new image in the target cloud:

   CLI

   API

   yc compute image create \
     --name <new_image_name> \
     --source-image-id <source_image_ID> \
     --cloud-id <target_cloud_ID> \
     --folder-id <target_folder_ID>
   

   Use the create REST API method for the Image resource or the ImageService/Create gRPC API call. Specify the image ID in your request.

7. In the target cloud, create a VM from the image you created.