Baadal
IIT Delhi private cloud

Campus compute, on demand.

Baadal provides virtual machines for coursework, research and departmental services on institute infrastructure, with access through your IIT Delhi account.

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News Welcome to the new Baadal Baadal has a new interface: sign-in with your IIT Delhi account, a browser console, clearer requests and approvals, and a dark mode. Read Guide Internet access from your VM through the IIT Delhi proxy Baadal VMs reach the internet through the institute proxy. Set it once for the shell, the package manager, pip and git. Read Guide Using an extra disk on a Linux VM After an extra disk is attached, format and mount it as a separate directory, or add it to the root volume with LVM. Read
Infrastructure

Built on IIT Delhi’s own data centres

Running across the main data centre and the disaster-recovery site.

  • Data centre + DR site
  • 60+ servers
  • 4,500+ CPU threads
  • 20+ TB memory
  • 100+ TB storage
  • Always monitored

1,000+ virtual machines today 6,000+ since the start

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Request a VM Sign in with your IIT Delhi account. No separate registration is needed. Sign in Read the FAQ Requests, access, storage, snapshots and policies, answered in one place. Open the FAQ Contact support Questions about a request, a course, or something not working? Write to the Baadal team. baadalsupport@cc.iitd.ac.in