Is a research VM suitable for me?

I am a colleague in IT Services…

Your VM should be hosted in the central ITS VM area. Please raise a Support Centre ticket and assign it to the IT Services Infrastructure Manager.

I am an academic lead…

I want a Web site — including WordPress and WikiMedia

Update, 2018 March: There is now a centrally-run WordPress service.

Mostly static websites, that do not need access to project Research Data Storage (RDS), can likely be provided by one of the Comms and Marketing teams via the web farms on campus:

• FSE: FSE Communications and Marketing Team
• Humanities: FHUM Communications and Marketing Team
• FBMH: FBMH Communications and Marketing Team
• IT Services also has a Website Hosting and Creation services that may meet your requirements.

I want a Subversion/GIT respository

Please check to see if your needs can be met by the Source Code Management service.

I want to run a SQL database

Small databases may be run within a VM located on the virtual disk(s). Larger databases will need to be located on network-attached storage from the RDS, so performance may be an issue.

I need to do some computation

No, these VMs are not suitable for computationally-intensive work. Please consider other options including the CSF, iCSF or HTCondor.

Otherwise…

…please go ahead!