Creating an ECS (MySQL Server)

This section describes how to buy an ECS for installing a MySQL database (community edition).

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select EU-Dublin.
3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server.
4. Click Buy ECS.
5. Configure ECS parameters.
   1. Set Specifications to General computing and select s6.xlarge.2 with 4 vCPUs and 8 GiB.

   2. Select the image and disk specifications.

6. Click Next: Configure Network.
   1. Select the VPC and security group created in Creating a VPC and Security Group.

   2. Set EIP to Auto assign, Billed by to Traffic, and Bandwidth Size to 20. The bandwidth size can be changed as required.

7. Click Next: Configure Advanced Settings.

   Specify ECS Name and Password.

8. Click Next: Confirm.
9. Select an enterprise project and click Submit.
10. Return to the ECS list page and view the creation progress.

    When the ECS status changes to Running, the ECS has been created.