Create a VM

1. Open the Deploy page

In the portal sidebar, open Infrastructure → Cloud VMs, then click Deploy VM.

2. Select a location

Under Location, pick a region tab (for example Asia), then choose a data center location. Plans, images, VPCs, and Reserved IPs further down the page are filtered to this location.

See Regions and locations for availability.

3. Choose a plan

Under Choose Plan, filter by All, Standard, or Performance, then select a plan. Each row shows the plan’s vCPU, memory, storage, included bandwidth, and price per month and per hour. The portal checks that the plan can be placed in the selected location before you deploy.

See Instance types for how the plan families differ.

4. Select the operating system

Pick a source for the boot disk under Operating System:

On Templates, pick an OS family card (for example Ubuntu or Windows), then choose a version from the OS Version dropdown. A Selected: <version> chip confirms your choice. Only images compatible with Cloud VMs are listed.

5. Review licences and control panels

If the selected plan and image have add-ons, a Licences & control panels section lists them with a monthly price:

• For Windows images, the Windows licence is selected automatically and marked Required for the selected Windows image.
• Other add-ons are Optional — click a card to add or remove it.

6. Add SSH keys (Linux)

For Linux images, the SSH Keys section appears. Open Select SSH Keys and pick one or more saved keys. To add a new one, click Add Key, then either use Create Key Pair (the private key downloads once — keep it safe) or Import Key to paste or upload an existing public key.

The section is hidden for Windows images, which use a password instead.

7. Configure the network

Under Network Configuration → VM network, choose Internet and VPC access:

When you pick a VPC, also pick a Subnet. With Public IP and a VPC, a Reserved public IP field appears:

• Leave it on Allocate automatically, or select one of your Reserved IPs in this location.
• A private VPC requires a Reserved IP for public exposure — create one in this location before deploying.
• Selecting a specific Reserved IP limits the deployment to one VM.

Under Firewall, pick a firewall group, or click Create Group to create one and select it. If you don’t select a group, the default firewall group is attached automatically. Manage rules from the Firewalls page.

See Networking for VMs for how each option behaves after deploy.

8. Choose a billing term

Under Billing, choose how the VM is billed. The options offered depend on the plan:

Commitment cards show the equivalent hourly rate and any saving compared with Hourly.

9. Set VM details

Under VM Details:

• Instances — use − and + to deploy up to 5 VMs with the same configuration. The maximum can be lower when capacity (or, for Public IP, free public addresses) in the location is limited, and it is 1 when you select a specific Reserved IP.
• Hostname — use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens (spaces become hyphens; other characters are removed). With more than one instance, this field becomes the Base hostname and each instance is prefilled as <base>-1, <base>-2, and so on. Edit any of them under Instance hostnames. Every hostname must be unique.

10. Deploy

Check the summary in the bottom bar — it shows the estimated cost for all instances, including any licence. Then click Deploy (or Deploy N VMs for more than one instance).

The platform first checks your organization’s billing state and wallet balance. If the check passes, you return to the Cloud Virtual Machines list while the VM provisions. If not, a Billing needs attention popup appears — click Add Credits to top up, then return and deploy again.