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To use Ceph as a storage device, Faculty, Staff, Department and Colleges need to purchase a storage project, minimum 1TB for a duration of 5 years . The or request a storage allocation annually. If purchasing, the cost for 1TB of storage is $375 for 5 year duration. The storage project can be shared with a named group of users including students at no charge. To request purchase a Ceph storage project, please contact the Manager of Research Computing with the following
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Ceph is the storage backend for Sol. All users are provided with 150GB home storage with the $50/user/year account fees. Principle Investigators are encouraged to purchase a Ceph storage project for their research groups use on Sol. Such PIs have the option of using their Ceph storage project for their home directories instead of the 150GB quota and have their annual user fees waived for the duration of the Ceph project (i.e. 5 years from purchase) for current and future usersEach Principle Investigator is provided with a 1TB ceph space for his/her research group. If additional space is requested, please include a justification in your compute allocation request or explicitly request a storage allocation. This storage exists as long as your allocation is active and will be deleted (no backups kept) a month after your allocation expires. If you purchase a Ceph project, then you storage will exist for 5 years irrespective of your compute allocation status.
Using Ceph for storage
Ceph storage projects are shared using cifs utilities and can be mounted as a network drive on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Ceph projects are mounted on Sol. Groups that use Ceph as home directory have access to their projects when they login to Sol. All others can access their Ceph projects at /share/ceph/projectname
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