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Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack and they are solely responsible for maintaining any VMs they deploy. The expectation is that the owners of the VMs will be patching and doing other maintenance work on a regular basis. We will be more than happy to provide guidance on this process. | Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack and they are solely responsible for maintaining any VMs they deploy. The expectation is that the owners of the VMs will be patching and doing other maintenance work on a regular basis. We will be more than happy to provide guidance on this process. Contact us at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca for details. | ||
Revision as of 20:29, 27 May 2022
Apache CloudStack is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering providing Virtual Machines (VMs) for University of Calgary researchers. It is part of Research Computing Services Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). This service will allow researchers to quickly deploy VMs to support their research projects.
If you have need for a web site, a database, or you wish to experiment with new software tools, test out the latest release of a software package, then CloudStack can provide you with an environment to support your work.
There is no charge for the use of CloudStack.
Not sure if this is what you need? Please contact us at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca. We will be more than happy to discuss your needs with you.
Getting Started
Not sure if you need a VM or a compute cluster? Is this the "Cloud"? Don't understand what we're talking about? Contact us at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca and we will assist you in using this service to support your research goals.
Please refer to the CloudStack User Guide for details on using CloudStack.
Availability
CloudStack is available now to any PI at the University of Calgary.
Requesting Access
Requests to use CloudStack are done through Service Now: https://ucalgary.service-now.com/it?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=e3c1d6e91be48554cca5ecefbd4bcb6c
End User Agreement
Please see https://rcs.ucalgary.ca/CloudStack_End_User_Agreement
Please Note
CloudStack is a research environment and is supported as such.
Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack and they are solely responsible for maintaining any VMs they deploy. The expectation is that the owners of the VMs will be patching and doing other maintenance work on a regular basis. We will be more than happy to provide guidance on this process. Contact us at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca for details.