Standard “No Fee” Disk Storage
ITC provides a basic amount of disk storage at no charge to members of the University community through the Home Directory Service. A disk quota is set for each account when it is allocated. If this amount is not sufficient for an individual’s needs, or if a group wishes to share a larger block of disk space, ITC makes these larger allocations available through an annual lease.
Premium Leased Disk Storage and Rates
About Premium Leased Disk Storage
- made available from a high-availability, high-performance cluster of Network Appliance file servers
- provides access to your disk storage from UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh systems
- is a managed file service that uses fully redundant hardware, with daily backups to an off-site facility
- includes ITC-provided system administrators
Premium Leased Disk Storage Rates
Space is available for lease in increments of 1000 megabytes(MB) (approximately one gigabyte (GB)) with prices set only to recover the cost of the file service hardware, software, maintenance, and (optional) backups.
With backup, the lease rates effective July 1, 2009, are
$24.20 base fee, plus:
- $6.10/GB for up to 10 GB
- $5.50/GB for the next 90 GB (up to 100)
- $5.40/GB for any additional (over 100)
Without backup, the lease rates effective July 1, 2009, are
$24.20 base fee, plus:
- $3.50/GB for up to 10 GB
- $3.20/GB for the next 90 GB (up to 100)
- $3.20/GB for any additional (over 100)
Additional Premium Leased Disk Storage for Individual Home Directories
Anyone who leases storage for his or her Home Directory will have the leased amount added to the standard ITC quota which is given to all users. Because all user storage is part of very large filesystems, with allocations controlled by quotas, adding incremental amounts can be done easily and quickly. Because of the way home directories are structured and backed up, the option to exclude leased additions from backup is not available. Only leased storage with backup can be added to a home directory.
To request additional storage for your Home Directory, send mail to systems@virginia.edu.
Premium Leased Disk Storage for Departments or Groups
Disk storage may be leased by a group. It will be set up as a separate directory (not associated with anyone's individual Home Directory) which is shared by the entire group. Such a resource could be used in various ways—for example, as a small departmental file server in lieu of the department having to manage its own file server, or as the site storage for a virtual host on one of the ITC web server clusters.
Departmental or Group Fee-Based Storage:
- adds permanence–it is not associated with anyone’s individual Home Directory account; therefore, it is not affected if a member of the group leaves the University,
- gives access only to a selected group through individual logins and IDs,
- establishes directories that can be mapped as a network drive on an individual desktop system—for example:
- \\home2\mygroupdirectory (on Windows), or
- smb://home2.virginia.edu/mygroupdirectory (on Mac OSX)
- allows you to pick what you want “mygroupdirectory” to be named as long as it doesn’t conflict with one already established,
- gives ITC the responsibility for system administration and server maintenance.
To request a group share or web virtual host storage, send mail to systems@virginia.edu.