Cloud Capacity Provisioning

Cloud bursting provides additional (and seamless) system resources to clients running analyses so that they can continue working, unconstrained by on-premises resource capacity. The cloud service is contracted through a third-party provider. Touchstone only supports turning nodes on and off and bursting jobs based on established policies.

 

Administrators can establish only one set of provisioning parameters.

Provisioning applies to all business units.

Use the settings in the Cloud Capacity Provisioning pane to establish cloud provisioning.

Parameters & Buttons

Description

Common buttons

Use these buttons (when applicable) and the parameters below to establish cloud settings.

Certificate

To select a certificate file, which ends with the file extension *.pfx, click to open the Certificate Browser dialog box, browse to the location of the file, select the file, and then click Open. Enter an AIR-supplied password and then click Apply. The certificate number appears in this field.

Subscription ID

Enter the subscription ID (provided by the cloud service provider).

Region

Select a region from the list. Regions that are dimmed (and in italic) are not available. If you select an unavailable region, a red box appears around the region, indicating a selection error.

Node Type

Select the compute node type in the Node Type grid. The number of cores available and the RAM are displayed for the node types.

Compute Nodes

Enter the number of compute nodes (integer).

Azure Pricing Calculator

Click Azure Pricing Calculator to open a browser window and view Microsoft Azure's cloud services pricing schema.

Activate

Click Activate to turn on cloud services.

I accept these Terms and Conditions

Select the check box  to accept terms and conditions of this cloud services agreement.

Click to export cloud capacity provisioning history.

Related topics

       Cloud bursting

       Cloud burst policies describes how to establish policies for business units, user roles, and users.

 


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Touchstone 7.0 Updated September 03, 2020