Create an instance

1. Open Instances tab and click Create Instance.

2. Select the region where you want to deploy the instance.

Regions can be of two types: Core and Edge. A region determines the equipment specifications.

* We can always transform an edge region to core upon your request.

3. Configure the image.

Select the type of hardware architecture on which your instance will be running:

• x86-64: This architecture is known for its broad compatibility with Linux operating systems and Windows distributions. It is commonly used in general purpose computing applications.
• ARM: ARM architecture is designed for energy efficiency and low power consumption, which also supports strong performance, making it ideal for high-performance computing tasks. However, ARM instances are compatible with fewer OS distributions.

Your choice of hardware architecture will affect the available OS options and instance flavors. Choose an OS distribution, a volume, a snapshot, a custom image, or a template from the marketplace.

4. Configure the instance type.

Select the appropriate CPU generation:

• Intel® Xeon® Scalable, 3rd Gen or 2nd Gen if you’ve selected x-86-64 architecture at the previous step.

• ARM Ampere® Altra® Max Family if you’ve selected ARM architecture at the previous step.

Choose one of the available flavors.

5. Configure Volumes.

Enter a volume name, choose its type and set its size in GiB

(optional) Add an Attachment Tag.

6. Add one or multiple interfaces in Network settings.

If you select a public interface, you can turn on the Use Reserved IP toggle and assign a reserved IP address to your instance.

If you select a private interface, configure a network and a subnetwork according to the steps below. 

To configure a network, select an existing network from the drop-down list or create a new one by clicking Add a new network. If you choose the latter, the new window will open:

• Enter the network name.

• (optional) Turn on the Bare Metal Network toggle to connect bare metal servers to the network

• (optional) Turn on the Add tags toggle to add metadata to the network.

• Click Create network.

To create a subnet, select an existing subnet from the drop-down list or create a new one by clicking Add a new subnetwork. If you choose the latter, the new window will open:

• Enter the subnet name.

• Set CIDR between ranges: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255, 172.16.0.0—172.31.255.255, 192.168.0.0—192.168.255.255. Set the mask between 16 and 24.

• (optional) Turn on the Enable DHCP toggle to automatically assign IP addresses to machines in the subnet.

• (optional) Turn on the Non-routable subnetwork toggle to block access to the subnet from external networks and other subnets. If you keep the network routable, you can specify the Gateway IP address. Otherwise, a random IP address will be assigned.

• (optional) Enter Custom DNS servers to add specific DNS servers**.**

• optional) Turn on Add tags to add metadata to the subnetwork.

• Click Create subnetwork.

Optionally, you can turn on the Use Reserved IP toggle to assign a reserved IP address to your instance and/or turn on the Use Floating IP toggle to assign a floating IP address to your instance.

7. For Firewall settings, select the default firewall or create a new one by clicking Add firewall.

If you keep the default firewall, the incoming traffic will be allowed over ICMP, TCP (SSH) and RDP protocols.

If you want to create a new firewall, refer to the article: Add and configure a firewall.

8. (for a Linux instance) Configure an SSH key for a remote SSH connection.

You can add an existing SSH key or generate a new one. You enter a public key and use a private key for connection. For details, see the article: Connect to your instance via SSH.

9. (for a Windows instance) Configure Access by setting a password for the Admin user.

Your password must contain between 8 and 16 characters and at least one lowercase letter (a-z), one uppercase letter (A-Z), one number (0-9) and one special character (!#$%&’()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_{|}~).

You can connect to a Windows instance from your Control Panel or from your computer over RDP protocol.

10. (optional) Configure Additional options.

• Turn on User data to customize your VM during the initial boot by a cloud-init agent.

You can configure your password to connect to your Linux instance from your Control Panel or via SSH. To do it, insert the code below to the User data field and enter your password:

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    #cloud-config  
password: **your password**  
chpasswd: { expire: False }  
ssh_pwauth: True

Note: If an instance is only in a private subnet, DHCP must be enabled in the settings of this subnet, so you can log in with a password.

You can configure the password hash—a machine-readable set of symbols. It’ll protect your real password from being compromised. To generate a hash, use the Python script:

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    #!/usr/bin/env python3  
\# based on [https://stackoverflow.com/a/17992126/117471](https://stackoverflow.com/a/17992126/117471)\# pip3 install passlib  
import sys  
from getpass import getpass  
from passlib.hash import sha512_crypt  
passwd = input() if not sys.stdin.isatty() else getpass()  
print(sha512_crypt.hash(passwd , rounds = 5000 ))

• Turn on Add tags to add a key-value pair that form the metadata of the virtual machine description.

• Turn on Add to placement group to determine how to place multiple instances.

You can add the instance to an existing placement group or create a new one by clicking Add placement group.

11. Specify the number of machines with the same configuration you need and give them names.

The maximum number is limited by your quotas.

For names, use Latin characters, underscores, spaces, and dots.

12. Click Create virtual machine.

Your server will be transitioned to the Building status. The system will allocate resources for your virtual machine.

After that, the server will be automatically moved to the Power on status. Your machine is ready to run!