https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/ 2026-08-11T13:59:01+00:00 https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/ https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/_media/wiki:favicon.ico text/html 2025-10-22T10:21:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/guide:cloud:advanced?rev=1761121304&do=diff CHPC Cloud Resources * Overview * Getting Started * User Guide * IAC (Advanced) * Best Practice and Policies * Glossary of Terms * FAQs How can I manage my OpenStack resources via code? An alternative to clicking about through the Horizon dashboard is available. In this guide we will cover: * Setting up your project(s) in GitLab text/html 2021-12-09T16:42:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/guide:cloud:faq?rev=1639060966&do=diff CHPC Cloud Resources * Overview * Getting Started * User Guide * Best Practice and Policies * Glossary of Terms * FAQs Technical FAQs 1) Do you monitor my VM’s activity? Answer: We do not monitor user VM activity. 2) I cannot SSH into my VM which was working fine yesterday, do you know what happened? Answer: Please provide us more details about your VM in order to investigate. In the meantime, please click on the Instance name in the Compute -> Instances tab, and then cl… text/html 2021-12-09T16:42:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/guide:cloud:glossary?rev=1639060966&do=diff CHPC Cloud Resources * Overview * Getting Started * User Guide * Best Practice and Policies * Glossary of Terms * FAQs Glossary of Terms ---------- Availability zone - An Amazon EC2 concept of an isolated area that is used for fault tolerance. Do not confuse with an OpenStack Compute zone or cell. Availability Zones are an end-user visible logical abstraction for partitioning a cloud without knowing the physical infrastructure. text/html 2025-09-17T09:17:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/guide:cloud:overview?rev=1758093445&do=diff CHPC Cloud Resources * Overview * Getting Started * User Guide * Best Practice and Policies * Glossary of Terms * FAQs Overview The CHPC Cloud System is a CentOS-based cloud computing infrastructure powered by Openstack and open source storage software Ceph. Openstack provide services like server virtualization, block & object storage systems, software defined networking, an image repository, a web based dashboard and authentication.You can read more about text/html 2025-06-24T17:32:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/guide:cloud:practices?rev=1750779150&do=diff CHPC Cloud Resources * Overview * Getting Started * User Guide * Best Practice and Policies * Glossary of Terms * FAQs ---------- Best Practices * Spin up a VM instance corresponding to your needs and ensure that we properly manage cloud compute resources. * Always start using virtual machine/instance by applying latest security updates text/html 2022-06-20T11:25:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.chpc.ac.za/guide:cloud:start?rev=1655717102&do=diff CHPC Cloud Resources * Overview * Getting Started * User Guide * Best Practice and Policies * Glossary of Terms * FAQs ---------- Launching a VM instance As a cloud end user, you can use the OpenStack dashboard to provision your own resources within the limits set by administrators. You can modify the examples provided in this section to create other types and sizes of server instances.