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The STFC Cloud provides a number of flavors to users but these fall into 4 categories at the moment.
The larger the flavor you choose the more resources you will be holding and the more power is consumed by the instance you have created. This also prevents other users from using these resources.
It is important that you should use the smallest flavor that meets the requirements of your workloads and if possible delete the instance when you are not using it.
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No flavor has resilient storage. If this is required you should boot from Volume at VM creation time |
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Name | RAM (MB) | Disk (GB) | Ephemeral Disk (GB) | VCPUs |
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l3l3.nano | 8,192 | 50 | 0 | 2 |
l3l3.micro | 16,384 | 100 | 0 | 4 l2 |
[dep-]l2.tiny | 30,720 | 200 | 0 | 8 |
l3l3.tiny | 30,720 | 200 | 0 | 8 l2 |
[dep-]l2.xsmall | 61,440 | 400 | 0 | 16 |
l3l3.xsmall | 61,440 | 400 | 0 | 16 le2 |
[dep-]le2.small | 125,952 | 100 | 700 | 30 |
le3le3.small | 125,952 | 100 | 700 | 30 l2 |
[dep-]l2.small | 125,952 | 800 | 0 | 30 |
l3l3.small | 125,952 | 800 | 0 | 30 le2 |
[dep-]le2.medium | 250,880 | 100 | 1500 | 60 |
le3.medium | 250,880 | 100 | 1500 | 60 l2 |
[dep-]l2.medium | 250,880 | 1600 | 0 | 60 |
l3.medium | 250,880 | 1600 | 0 | 60 le2 |
[dep-]le2.large | 501,760 | 100 | 3100 | 124 |
le3.large | 501,760 | 100 | 3100 | 124 l2 |
[dep-]l2.large | 501,760 | 3200 | 0 | 124 |
l3.large | 501,760 | 3200 | 0 | 124 |
l6.c32 | 122,880 | 650 | 0 | 32 |
l6.c64 | 235,520 | 1300 | 0 | 64 |
l6.c124 | 471,859 | 2700 | 0 | 124 |
l6.c252 | 943,718 | 5400 | 0 | 252 |
💪 GPU flavors
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GPU flavors are not available by default and capacity is limited. To request access please contact STFC cloud support. |
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Flavor Prefix | Generation Year (FY) | End Of Maintenance | Estimated Draining Date | Estimated Final EOL Date |
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[dep-]l2/le2 | 2019/20 | 10/04/2023 | 10/04/2024 | 01/09/2024 |
l3/le3 | 2020/21 | 01/04/2026 | 01/04/2027 | 01/09/2027 |
l4 | 2020/21 | 01/04/2026 | 01/04/2027 | 01/09/2027 |
l5 | 2021/22 | 01/04/2025 | 01/04/2027 | 01/09/2027 |
l6 | 2022/23 | 06/11/2025 | 01/04/2028 | 01/09/2028 |
g-rtx4000 | 2020/21 | 01/04/2024 | 01/04/2026 | 01/09/2026 |
g-rtx4000 | 2021/22 | 01/04/2025 | 01/04/2027 | 01/09/2027 |
g-a4000 | 2022/23 | 01/04/2026 | 01/04/2028 | 01/09/2028 |
g-v100 | 2019/20 | 01/04/2023 | 01/04/2025 | 01/09/2025 |
g-v100 | 2020/21 | 01/04/2024 | 01/04/2026 | 01/09/2026 |
g-a100 | 2020/21 | 01/04/2024 | 01/04/2026 | 01/09/2026 |
g-a100-n100 | 2020/21 | 01/04/2024 | 01/04/2026 | 01/09/2026 |
g-a100-80gb | 2021/22 | 01/04/2025 | 01/04/2027 | 01/09/2027 |
g-a100-80gb-2022 | 2022/23 | 01/04/2026 | 01/04/2028 | 01/09/2028 |
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C flavors are now deprecated and new VMs will not be able to be created after the 12th of April 2023. It is recommend to use l flavors instead. |
These are flavors with dedicated CPU cores meaning that a VCPU core assigned to your VM is dedicated to you.
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l2 and le2 flavors
(e.g. l2.large, le2.small)
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L2 flavors are now deprecated and new VMs will not be able to be created after the 10th of April 2024. It is recommend to use l3, l5 or l6 flavors instead. |
these flavors have now been renamed to dep-l2 and dep-le2 to reflect that these are deprecated and should be considered at risk. We will be confirming the Final End Of Life date for these shortly. This will be the date when any remaining running VMs will be terminated.
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