COT System Information

Owned by UKY CCS RCD
Aug 08, 2024
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Nodes: 8 compute nodes

Storage: Ceph backend for volumes, images

OpenStack version: Rocky


OpenStack is essentially Virtual Machine manager. Each user can create a VM (powered by QEMU hypervisor–akin to VirtualBox). Each VM lives inside one of the nine compute nodes specified above. Each VM is isolated from another (user operations on one VM should not affect other VMs in the same or different compute node). Users can create VMs through a web front end or from the CLI. VMs can be accessed via any terminal through SSH or through a web console.

Each user is associated with a project (currently with the same name as the PI's linkblue id). Access to the OpenStack kyric cluster is on cot.netlab.uky.edu. Log in using your linkblue credentials. Each project is allotted a quota for virtual CPUs (VCPUs), RAM, volume disk space, etc. OpenStack won't let you create more VMs if the project quota is exceeded.

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