Yandex Compute Cloud

Getting started
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- All instructions
- Creating VMs
  - Creating a Linux VM
  - Creating a Windows VM
  - Creating a VM from a set of disks
  - Creating a VM with disks from snapshots
  - Creating a VM from a custom image
  - Creating a VM with a GPU
  - Making a VM preemptible
- DSVM
  - Overview
  - Creating a VM from a public DSVM image
- Placement groups
  - Creating a placement group
  - Deleting a placement group
  - Creating a VM in a placement group
  - Adding a VM to a placement group
  - Removing a VM from a placement group
- Images with pre-installed software
  - Creating a VM from a public image
  - Configuring software
  - Running a VM based on a public image
  - Getting a list of public images
- Getting information about a VM
  - Getting information about a VM
  - Getting serial port's output
- Managing VMs
  - Stopping and starting a VM
  - Resetting a VM user password
  - Attaching a disk to a VM
  - Detaching a disk from a VM
  - Moving a VM to a different availability zone
  - Moving a VM to another folder
  - Attaching a public IP address to a VM
  - Detaching a public IP address from a VM
  - Making a VM's public IP address static
  - Updating a VM
  - Changing VM computing resources
  - Deleting a VM
- Working on VMs
  - Connecting to a VM via SSH
  - Connecting to a VM via RDP
  - Connecting to a VM via PowerShell
  - Working with Yandex Cloud from inside a VM
  - Installing NVIDIA drivers
  - Restoring access to a VM
- Managing the password reset agent
  - Verifying agent operation
  - Installing the agent
  - Deleting the agent
- Creating new disks
  - Creating an empty disk
  - Creating an empty disk with a large block
  - Creating a non-replicated disk
- Disk management
  - Creating a disk snapshot
  - Updating a disk
  - Moving a disk to another folder
  - Deleting a disk
  - Deleting a disk snapshot
- Disk placement groups
  - Creating a disk placement group
  - Removing a disk from a placement group
- Creating new images
  - Preparing a disk image
  - Uploading your image
  - Creating an image from a disk
  - Creating an image from a snapshot
  - Creating an image from other custom image
- Managing images
  - Getting a list of images
  - Deleting a disk image
- File storage
  - Creating file storage
  - Attaching file storage to a VM
  - Detaching file storage from a VM
  - Updating file storage
  - Deleting file storage
- Managing the serial console
  - Getting started
  - Connecting to a serial console via SSH
  - Connecting to a serial console via CLI
  - Starting your terminal in the Windows serial console (SAC)
  - Disabling access to the serial console
- Creating instance groups
  - Creating a fixed-size instance group
  - Creating a fixed-size instance group with a network load balancer
  - Creating a fixed-size instance group with an L7 load balancer
  - Creating an automatically scaled instance group
  - Creating an instance group from a Container Optimized Image
  - Creating an instance group based on the YAML specification
- Getting information about instance groups
  - Getting a list of instance groups
  - Getting information about an instance group
  - Getting a list of instances in a group
- Managing instance groups
  - Editing an instance group
  - Edit an instance group based on the YAML specification
  - Configuring application health check on the VM
  - Updating a group
    - Incremental update
    - Uninterrupted updates
  - Pausing an instance group
  - Resuming an instance group
  - Stopping an instance group
  - Starting an instance group
  - Deleting an instance group
- Dedicated hosts
  - Creating a VM in a group of dedicated hosts
  - Creating a VM on a dedicated host
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Questions and answers

Connecting to a Windows VM via RDP

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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with Network Level Authentication (NLA) is enabled for images of all versions and editions of the Windows operating system prepared for Yandex Cloud. Before connecting to a VM, make sure that NLA is enabled in your desktop settings. When the VM starts (its status is RUNNING), you can connect to it using RDP.

Make sure the VM's security groups allow incoming TCP traffic to port 3389.

Note

Security groups are at the Preview stage. If they aren't available in your network, all incoming and outgoing traffic will be allowed for the VM and no additional setup is required.

To connect using RDP, specify the public IP address or the FQDN of the VM. Access using FQDN is possible from another Yandex Cloud VM if it's connected to the same network. You can find out the IP address and FQDN in the management console. Go to the Network section on the virtual machine's page.

To connect to the VM:

Windows

macOS

Linux

Click Start.
In the search box, type Remote Desktop Connection and select the appropriate item.
In the Remote Desktop Connection window, enter the public IP address of the VM to connect to in the Computer field.
Click Connect.
Specify the account settings:
- User name Administrator.
- The password you set when creating the VM.
Press OK.

Note

It usually takes up to 6 minutes to start a VM and initialize Remote Desktop (RDP). In rare cases, loading may take much longer than the time specified. For example, when using:

VMs with less than 100% guaranteed vCPU performance.
VMs that generate a load that exceeds the boot disk's IOPS limit.
Network HDD drives with small storage capacity.

See also

Remote Desktop Connection.

Install and run Microsoft Remote Desktop (free official RDP client for Mac).
Press → Desktop.
In the Add Desktop dialog enter the public IP address of the virtual machine to connect to in the field PC Name.
In the User Account field select Add User Account.
In the Add User Account dialog specify the account settings:
- User Name Administrator.
- Password: The password that you set when creating the VM.
Press Save twice.
Connect to the remote machine by double-clicking the connection you created in the main Microsoft Remote Desktop window.

See also

Getting started with Remote Desktop on Mac.

Install Remmina (a free RDP client for Linux) using the commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp

Start Remmina.
Click .
Fill in the Profile block as follows:
- Name: a name for the connection.
- Protocol: RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol.
In the Basic tab specify the details for connection and authorization:
- Server: the public IP address of the virtual machine to connect to.
- User Name: Administrator.
- Password: the password that you set when you created the virtual machine.
Click Save.
Connect to the remote machine by double-clicking the connection you created in the quick access connection list.

See also

Installing Remmina on Linux distributions other than Ubuntu.

What's next

Learn how to work with Yandex Cloud from inside a VM

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