Project management

Each project has a unique identifier (PID) of the form mscNNNNNNNNNN, for example, msc0123456789. It is assigned automatically and is used when contacting technical support.

To get the PID:

1. Go to VK Cloud personal account.

2. In the header of your personal account, click on the name of the project.

   A list of projects in which you are a member will open.

3. To copy the PID of the desired project, hover over the project name and click on the icon which will appear on the right.

The project name can be changed at any stage of the project life.

1. Go to VK Cloud personal account.

2. In the header of your personal account, click on the name of the project.

   A list of projects in which you are a member will open.

3. Hover the mouse cursor over the name of the desired project and click on the icon which will appear on the right.

4. Enter a new name and click Save.

You can also rename the project through the account menu. Select Project settings and go to the General information tab.

For projects created automatically — for example, when registering an account — the project name by default matches its identifier.

A project can have only one owner. After appointing another user as the owner, you will switch with him roles.

1. Follow the preparatory steps:

   1. If necessary, untie the payment card from the project by contacting technical support.

   2. Make sure that the user you want to make the owner:

      • Added to the list of members and accepted the invitation to the project.

        In this case, it is displayed in the list with the activation status Yes.

      • (Optional) Has the role of superadministrator, project administrator or user administrator (IAM) in the project.

        This will allow you to control the change of roles after you cease to be the owner.

      • Agree to accept the project.

        The transfer of the project is possible only with the consent of the new owner.

2. Contact technical support on behalf of the current owner, provide the following information:

   • project id (PID);
   • the new owner's email address.

3. (Optional) Check the role change in the list of project members.

If you want to suspend work on a project, mothball the project to stop debiting funds. If the project goes into negative territory, it will be frozen with subsequent deletion of objects and data.

To preserve the project:

1. Determine which data from the project you want to save:

   1. Click on the user name in the header of the personal account page, select Balance and payments.
   2. Expand the menu of each service to see the objects in which data is stored and their size.

2. Stop all the VMs that you want to save data from.

3. Transfer or copy all the necessary data.

   For example, create and export disk images of the virtual machines stopped in the previous step.

4. Delete all objects that are charged or occupy disk space — floating IP addresses, disks, buckets, load balancers, and others.

   The full list of such objects is also on the page Balance and payments.

   Since the boot disks of virtual machines cannot be deleted separately, delete VMs.

   Objects that do not consume resources — for example, networks and subnets — can be left in the project.

You will be able to reactivate the project after any period of time by uploading the saved data to it and restoring the infrastructure.

You can transfer disks between projects. This allows you to transfer virtual machines between projects.

Disk transfer is possible only within one region. If the projects are located in different regions, upload locally the disk image and download it to the new project.

Currently, transferring PaaS service objects between projects is not supported. For example, the virtual machine on which the database was deployed can be moved to another project only as a regular virtual machine. It is not possible to transfer such a virtual machine as a database instance or create a database instance with a disk transferred from another project.

By contacting technical support, it is possible to transfer objects:

• floating IP addresses;
• addresses of the external networks.

If the project lacks quotas, contact technical support on behalf of the project owner and provide the information:

• project id (PID) and region;
• which quotas need to be increased (for example, the number of CPUs, the available amount of RAM) and by how much.

Deleting a project is also possible with a negative balance.

1. Make sure that you have transferred all the necessary data from the project.

2. Contact technical support on behalf of the project owner, provide in the request the project ID (PID) and region of the project being deleted.

3. (For legal entities) Specify for what period you need closing documents.

   You will be contacted to confirm the deletion.