CloudStack

Apache CloudStack is the RCS Virtual Machine (VM) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering for University of Calgary Researchers in order to allow them to quickly deploy VMs to support research projects. It is intended as a proof of concept or for prototyping environments, where resources are quickly spun up as required.

Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack. As such, 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.

Please Note: CloudStack is a research environment and is supported as such.

Getting Started

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 you.

Please refer to the CloudStack User Guide for details on using 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.

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