Enabling a software-accelerated network

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Yandex Cloud

Updated at June 9, 2025

You can enable a software-accelerated network when creating or updating a VM.

Warning

This feature is only available upon agreement with your account manager.

To enable a software-accelerated network on an existing VM:

Management console

CLI

In the management console, select the folder this VM belongs to.
Select Compute Cloud.
Click in the row with the VM you need and select Stop.
In the window that opens, click Stop.
Wait for the VM status to change to Stopped, click , and select Edit.
Under Computing resources, select Software network acceleration.
Click Save changes.
Click Start in the top-right corner.
In the window that opens, click Start.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI command for updating VM parameters:
```
yc compute instance update --help
```

Get a list of VMs in the default folder:

yc compute instance list

Result:

+----------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------+----------------------+
|          ID          |       NAME      |    ZONE ID    | STATUS  |     DESCRIPTION      |
+----------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------+----------------------+
| fhm0b28lgfp4******** | first-instance  | ru-central1-a | RUNNING | my first vm via CLI  |
| fhm9gk85nj7g******** | second-instance | ru-central1-a | RUNNING | my second vm via CLI |
+----------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------+----------------------+

Select the ID or NAME of the relevant VM and stop it. For example, to stop a VM named first-instance, run this command:
```
yc compute instance stop first-instance
```

Enable a software-accelerated network:

Run this command:

yc compute instance update first-instance \
  --network-settings type=software-accelerated

Where --network-settings is the flag that switches the network type.

Result:

id: fhm0b28lgfp4********
folder_id: b1gbnv36zqf5********
created_at: "2023-05-24T09:28:11Z"
name: first-instance
zone_id: ru-central1-a
platform_id: standard-v3
resources:
  memory: "2147483648"
  cores: "2"
  core_fraction: "100"
status: STOPPED
...
network_settings:
  type: SOFTWARE_ACCELERATED
placement_policy: {}

Run the VM:

yc compute instance start first-instance

To disable a software-accelerated network, stop the VM and run this command:

yc compute instance update first-instance \
  --network-settings type=standard

Enabling a software-accelerated network

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