How Baadal works
From a request to a running virtual machine, and the setups people on campus use most.
From request to a running VM
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Request
Sign in, choose a template and size, and describe what the VM is for.
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Approval
Your faculty member verifies the request and the administrators approve it. You receive an email when the VM is ready.
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Connect
Use SSH or Remote Desktop to the IP address shown on the VM's page, or the web console.
Questions about approval, access or storage? See the FAQ.
Find the right setup
Baadal serves many kinds of work on campus. Here is how people typically use it.
Compute for your research group
Run analyses, simulations and long-running jobs on a machine your group controls, without buying and maintaining hardware.
- Linux templates with full administrator access
- Add CPU, memory or disk as the project grows
- Collaborators share access to the same VM
Lab machines for a whole course
Give every student in a course the same, ready-to-use environment, and remove it when the semester ends.
- Identical VMs created from one template
- Managed together as a course group
- Snapshots to undo a broken setup
Websites and services for departments
Host a department website, a lab's wiki or an internal tool on campus, close to the people who use it.
- Linux and Windows Server templates
- Scheduled snapshots
- Usage graphs on every VM's page
A machine for your thesis or project
Students can request a VM for a project or thesis. Your supervisor verifies the request, so name them on the form.
- Sign in with your IIT Delhi account
- Faculty verification, then admin approval
- Email when your VM is ready