There are five different volumes in the cluster storage that you can use:
|
Storage Type |
Service / Volume |
Cost of 1TB/Month |
| Fast Storage | 1. No snapshots | 4$ |
| 2. With snapshots - 20% overhead in space allocation | fast storage (4$) + snapshots (1$) = 5$ | |
| 3. With snapshots + tape backup | fast storage (5$) + backup (2.5$) = 7.5$ | |
| Archive Storage | 4. Archive | 2$ |
| 5. Archive + Backup | archive storage (2$) + backup (2.5$) = 4.5$ |
To learn more about the characteristics of each one you can go to this wiki page.
As you can see each volume has a different price for 1TB of quota per 1 month.
When opening a new PI account in the cluster you will get by default a quota of 1TB in the fast storage.
If you need to increase or decrease your quota in any of the available volumes you can fill this Google Form.
When connected to any of the Moriah cluster nodes (gateway or compute nodes), PI users can run a script to generate a storage report similar to the monthly report they receive by mail. The script is located at:
/cs/share/scripts/urm-cli.git/allusers/DUreport.sh
You can create an alias for the command in your .cshrc/.bashrc file.
Quotas can only be in increments of 1TB, that is, quotas cannot be for example 3.5TB.
You will be charged for the proportional cost of the new quota according to the remaining days until the end of month.
For example, if you have a quota of 5TB in the fast storage without backup and you update the quota to 10TB on the 15th of a month that has 30 days, we calculate the cost as follows:
5TB for 15 days: cost of 1TB fast storage * 5TB * 15/30 = 5$ * 5 * 0.5 = 12.5$
10TB for 15 days: cost of 1TB fast storage * 10TB * 15/30 = 5$ * 10 * 0.5 = 25$
Storage cost for month of change: 25$ + 12.5$ = 37.5$
Storage cost next month: 50$