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When you create a virtual machine (VM) or edit its configuration, you operate with VM settings. Below is the list of the VM settings available in the web console creation wizard and on the VM settings page.

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General

If you have capacity block groups, on the General step of the wizard, you choose how Compute allocates resources:
  • Reserved VM: Capacity is assured by your capacity block groups. This option is for regular VMs with GPUs.
  • Pay-as-you-go VM: Capacity is subject to availability. This option allows preemptible VMs and VMs without GPUs.
If you do not have capacity block groups, the wizard skips the General step and opens Compute instead.

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Compute

On the Compute step, you configure computing resources. The available settings depend on whether you selected Reserved VM or Pay-as-you-go VM on the General step. If the General step was skipped, use the Pay-as-you-go VM settings below.

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Reserved VM

  • Platform. The list shows platforms that match your capacity block groups.
  • Reservation settings: Region, Any (existing and future), specific capacity block groups, and Switch to PAYG with When reservation is exhausted or Never.
  • Preset.
  • (Optional) GPU cluster. Allows accelerating tasks that require high-performance computing (HPC) power, such as training a model. A GPU cluster only helps if you add at least two VMs with 8 GPUs each to the cluster. For container VMs, you can assign a GPU cluster in the Advanced settings section.
  • VM name.
  • Project for the VM location.

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Pay-as-you-go VM

  • Select With GPUs or Without GPUs and the VM type Regular or Preemptible.
  • Platform and preset.
  • Preset.
  • (Optional) GPU cluster. Allows accelerating tasks that require HPC power, such as training a model. A GPU cluster only helps if you add at least two VMs with 8 GPUs each to the cluster. For container VMs, you can assign a GPU cluster in the Advanced settings section.
  • VM name.
  • Project for the VM location.

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Storage

On the Storage step, you can add a boot disk, additional disks and shared filesystems. For disks, you specify their type, size and block size. A boot disk is additionally based on an operating system. For more information about these settings, see Volume parameters. Boot disks are unavailable for container VMs. Only additional disks are available in advanced settings. For shared filesystems, you specify the following settings:
  • Name, size and block size.
  • Mount tag for mounting the filesystem to the VM. Create your own tag, such as my-filesystem. Make sure that it is unique within the VM.
  • Auto mount option enabled to mount the filesystem to the VM automatically.

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Network

On the Network step, you select a network and subnet and manage the VM addresses:
  • Private address: Select whether to allocate a random private IP address for the VM or to attach an allocation of a private address.
  • Public address: Specify whether the VM should have a public IP address and whether it should be static or dynamic.
  • Hostname: Select Same as VM ID or specify a Custom hostname for the VM’s FQDN.
If you need to secure your VM and make it isolated, you can create a VM without a public IP address. If you need to connect to this VM from the internet, you can set up a WireGuard jump server. It has an IP address in the internet and an IP address in the VM’s network. As a result, you can access the VM via the jump server from the internet. This approach enhances security and still provides access to the VM. For more information about the settings of the addresses, see Private and public IP addresses of Compute virtual machines.

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Configuration

On the Configuration step, you configure access, identity and VM startup settings for the VM.

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Access

In the Username and SSH key field, you add credentials of the user on behalf of whom you can connect to the VM. The access settings include the following:
  • Username of the VM user. Cannot be root or admin. These usernames are reserved for internal needs and are not allowed to connect to a VM by SSH.
  • Public key of your SSH key pair.
  • Name of credentials to recognize the key in the list of keys.

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Additional

(Optional) Service account: Select an existing service account or create a new one. The service account will perform actions on behalf of the VM, for example, run scripts.

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User data

(Optional) Select Enable custom cloud-init config and set a configuration in the cloud-init format to customize how the VM starts.

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Review

On the Review step, you see a summary of all settings before creating the VM. To edit a section, click next to the corresponding block on the Review step.