{"id":203,"date":"2014-02-18T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:25:12","slug":"should-i-ask-for-a-research-vm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/should-i-ask-for-a-research-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a research VM suitable for me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I am a colleague in IT Services\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>I am an academic lead\u2026<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>I want a Web site \u2014 including WordPress and WikiMedia<\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Update, 2018 March:<\/strong> There is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.manchester.ac.uk\/\">centrally-run WordPress service<\/a>.<\/dd>\n<dd>\nMostly static websites, that do not need access to project Research Data Storage (<a href=\"http:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\">RDS<\/a>), can likely be provided by one of the Comms and Marketing teams via the web farms on campus:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gaplist\">\n<li><strong>FSE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk\/fse\/faculty-support-services\/communications-and-marketing\/services\/\">FSE Communications and Marketing Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Humanities:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk\/humanities\/support-services\/communications-and-marketing\/advice-and-guidance\/\">FHUM Communications and Marketing Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>FBMH:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk\/bmh\/pss-activities\/comms-and-marketing\/websites\/\">FBMH Communications and Marketing Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li>IT Services also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/ourservices\/catalogue\/web-development\/\">Website Hosting and Creation services<\/a> that may meet your requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>I want a Subversion\/GIT respository<\/dt>\n<dd>Please check to see if your needs can be met by the <a href=\"https:\/\/scm.manchester.ac.uk\/\">Source Code Management<\/a> service.<\/dd>\n<dt>I want to run a SQL database<\/dt>\n<dd>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 <a href=\"\/rds\">RDS<\/a>, so performance may be an issue.<\/dd>\n<dt>I need to do some computation<\/dt>\n<dd>No, these VMs are not suitable for computationally-intensive work. Please consider other options including the <a href=\"\/csf\">CSF<\/a>, <a href=\"\/icsf\">iCSF<\/a> or <a href=\"\/htccondor\">HTCondor<\/a>.<\/dd>\n<dt>Otherwise&#8230;<\/dt>\n<dd>&#8230;please go ahead!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a colleague in IT Services\u2026 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\u2026 I want a Web site \u2014 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.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/should-i-ask-for-a-research-vm\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rvms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}