Managing project volumes

Your user home volume cannot be shared with others and has a limited capacity. When you need more storage or you want to share data with other members of your project, you will need to enable project storage by increasing your volume size from its default of zero.

Navigate to your project and click Billing then Manage Storage. You will see something like this:

Storage is measured in binary gigabytes, so if you want one terabyte of storage, you would enter 1024 . In the above example one terabyte would cost $51.20 per month. Your project would need a balance of at least that amount.

Reducing storage capacity

As the above example explains, unlike a block storage device that can only grow, Nightingale's Lustre volumes can be reduced in size. Capacity cannot be reduced below your current capacity usage.

Insufficient funds

Nightingale bills storage every hour so, reducing your funds balance. If you have project storage and your funds reach zero, the following will happen:

• All project members will receive disk space errors when trying to write to the ~/project directory.
• You will still be able to read and delete data, however.
• Project members who have the admin role will receive an email letting them know that the project has a 30 day grace period before data is deleted permanently from Nightingale unless the balance is topped off.
• Your project balance will continue to decline past zero, reflecting the unpaid storage usage.

Actions you can take:

• Assess your storage usage. Can you reduce the volume size? Can you delete some data and then reduce volume size?
• Deposit funds. The amount will need to be at least 30 days of storage at your chosen capacity, plus any amount needed to offset the negative balance. After the deposit, write access to the project directory will be restored immediately.
• Delete the project. After all project members have deleted all their instances, a project admin can delete the project.

If you do nothing, all project data will be destroyed permanently after 30 days.