Flavors, quotas and reference¶
Flavor families¶
Flavors define the CPU, memory, and local disk of an instance. The
authoritative list is in the dashboard
(openstack flavor list); the families are:
b2.*(no local disk). The name encodes CPU and RAM, for exampleb2.c4r8is 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM. These flavors have no local disk, so boot them from a volume.l2.*(local NVMe disk). Same CPU/RAM naming with a disk size suffix, for examplel2.c4r8.500is 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and a 500 GB local NVMe disk. The local disk is fast but its lifetime is tied to the instance.
Service endpoints¶
| Service | Endpoint |
|---|---|
| Dashboard (Horizon) | https://dashboard.sunetvdc.se |
| Identity (Keystone) | https://identity.sunetvdc.se |
| Object storage (S3) | https://s3.orion.sunetvdc.se |
| Compute (Nova) | https://compute.orion.sunetvdc.se |
| Network (Neutron) | https://network.orion.sunetvdc.se |
| Block storage (Cinder) | https://volume.orion.sunetvdc.se |
| Image (Glance) | https://image.orion.sunetvdc.se |
| Orchestration (Heat) | https://orchestration.orion.sunetvdc.se |
You normally only need the identity endpoint or a clouds.yaml; the
client discovers the rest from the service catalogue.
Quotas¶
Each project has quotas for instances, vCPUs, RAM, volumes, storage capacity, floating IPs, and similar resources. When you hit a quota, creating new resources fails until you free some or ask Sunet to raise the limit. Contact Sunet support to adjust a project's quotas.
Billing¶
Instances are billed per hour based on the flavor, volumes per GB per month, and object storage per GB per month. Windows images carry a per-vCPU license surcharge. See the official Sunet VDC price list for current figures.