The Cloud Computing service has a wide range of functionality, thanks to which you can create and manage scalable virtual machines.

Virtual machines can have Linux and Windows operating systems available when creating virtual machines. Each operating system disk is automatically replicated within its own AZ for reliable data storage.

The MCS infrastructure is protected in accordance with Federal Law No. 152.

Before starting work

To create a virtual machine, you must register on the MCS Platform, go to your personal account and make sure that the Cloud Computing service is active, the account balance is positive, and there are enough quotas to create the desired instance configuration.

Configuration templates

There are several groups of configurations (flavors) of virtual machines that are available in the project for creating virtual machines:

By default, Basic, Standard and Advanced configurations are available in the project. To create Heavy or Custom configurations, contact our technical support . The cost of Heavy and Custom configurations is calculated individually for each request.

VM performance

MCS server equipment located in data centers hosting virtual machines has the following characteristics:

By default, configurations are available in the project that allow you to create virtual machines on servers with processors of the "Standard" category: Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.10GHz and Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold 6238R CPU @ 2.20GHz ...

To gain access to the high-performance Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold 6230 CPU @ 3.40GHz and Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold 6238R CPU @ 3.70GHz processors, please contact technical support . The cost of configuring a virtual machine with a high-performance processor is calculated individually for each request.

After gaining access, you can create a virtual machine with a high-performance processor in your personal account by checking the "Show only high-performance CPUs" option in the instance creation wizard:

VM creation

A virtual machine is created in the Virtual machines section of the Cloud computing section using the "Create instance" button.

When you click on the button, the virtual machine configurator will open in the window, which consists of several stages, which as a result determines the parameters of the created VM.

At all stages, the configurator informs about the cost of the created instance, additional features, and also allows you to contact support in case of questions.

Depending on the OS family of the machine being created, the fields of information required for creation are dynamically changed:

The next step is to set up a virtual network. You can select an existing network or create a new one (for more details, see the article " Creating and removing networks ").

The next step is to set up an automatic VM backup plan.

Then you should go to the creation stage by clicking the "Add virtual machine" button.

Completion

The virtual machine will be created in 10-15 minutes. During this period, the operating system is being deployed to the instance disk, and system tools are also running to configure the virtual machine in accordance with the specified parameters.