Create a Virtual Machine

• Shared. VMs that share the core of a physical machine with other VMs. They are designed for workloads that don't require high performance.
  Availability: Luxembourg

• Standard. VMs best suited for a wide range of workloads that require predictable computing performance.
  Availability: all regions.
• vCPU. CPU-optimized VMs. Ideal for CPU-intensive tasks that require predictable computing performance, such as batch processing of large data sets and video encoding.
  Availability: all Core regions.
• Memory. Memory-optimized VMs. Suitable for memory-intensive tasks such as databases, SRM/ERP or data warehouses.
  Availability: all Core regions.
• High Frequency. VMs with a high CPU clock rate (3.7 GHz in the basic configuration). Ideal for applications requiring single-threaded performance, financial and probabilistic analytics, and automation of computational processes.
  Availability: Luxembourg, Manassas, Frankfurt.
• SGX. VMs that support Intel SGX (Security Guard Extension) that helps to protect data from disclosure or modification by isolating private parts of code and data (enclaves). The best option for storing critical or sensitive data in the cloud.
  Availability: Luxembourg, Manassas, Singapore.
• GPU. VMs with a graphics card. Suitable for working with graphic information, deep and machine learning applications, and high-performance computing.
  Availability: Luxembourg.
• GPU-HF. VMs with a high clock rate of the CPU and with a graphics card, suitable for complex calculations that require graphics accelerator resources, high performance, and speed.
  Availability: Luxembourg.

• High IOPS SSD. High-performance SSD block storage designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads (60 IOPS per 1 GiB; 2.5 MB/s per 1 GiB). The IOPS performance limit is 9,000. The bandwidth limit is 500 MB/s.

Availability: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Luxembourg, Luxembourg-2, Manassas, Paris-2, Singapore

• Standard. Network SSD disk, which provides stable and high random I/O performance, as well as high data reliability (6 IOPS per 1 GiB; 0.4 MB/s per 1 GiB). The IOPS performance limit is 4,500. The bandwidth limit is 300 MB/s.

Availability: all regions

• Cold. Network HDD disk, suitable for less frequently accessed workloads. The maximum number of IOPS is 1,000. The bandwidth limit is 100 MB/s.

Availability: Luxembourg

• Ultra. Network block storage option, recommended for non-critical data and workloads that are accessed less frequently. The maximum number of IOPS is 1,000. The bandwidth limit is 100 MB/s.

Availability: Luxembourg

• SSD Low-Latency. SSD block storage, designed for applications that require low-latency storage and real-time data processing. It can achieve IOPS performance of up to 5000, with an average latency of 300 µs.

Availability: Amsterdam-2, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Luxembourg-2, Manassas, Tokyo

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 ))

You can place your VM in one of three types of groups:

• Affinity groups assemble virtual machines on the same hardware. Machines launched in one affinity group will exchange data faster because they are located on the same server.

• Anti-affinity groups work the opposite way: All Virtual Machines in this group will be separated across different physical hardware. This increases fault tolerance of a cluster: Even if something goes wrong with one server, machines on the other servers will remain available.

• Soft anti-affinity groups encourage, but don't strictly enforce, the separation of Virtual Machines. Unlike a strict anti-affinity policy, where machines may never be placed together, soft anti-affinity allows placement on the same hardware when it is necessary due to factors like resource constraints or high demand. It is suitable for users who want to use the anti-affinity policy by default while also avoiding machine creation failures if an unused host is not found.