Retire a Service

When you no longer need your resources at Research Computing, you can retire them via the resource portal in a few steps.

You can also define the end date for your storage upon its initial request or modify it at a later time by Editing your Storage.

Retire Allocation

Allocations do not need to be manually retired, since they automatically expire on July 1st of the following year. You can view this date by first selecting the Use/View button under the Actions column for your allocation. The date is in the End Date column.

Retire Storage

To retire your active storage, select the Use/View button under the Actions column for your service.

A screenshot of the Research Computing Resource Portal. The project has the option to use and view a standard allocation, paid allocation, research standard storage, and research project storage. The use and view button for research standard and project storage is highlighted by a red box.

On the storage resource page, click the green Retire Storage button. You will be prompted with a window to type DELETE to confirm that you wish to retire the storage share.

A screenshot of the retire storage form in the Research Computing Resource Portal. The form requires the user to type delete in all capital letters to submit a request to retire their storage.

High Security Zone projects will not have the option to retire all of their storage, since the Ivy VM relies on the 1TB of Research Standard storage granted when the VM is created. PIs may retire storage requested separately from this, but not all of it.

Note: Please be aware that when you retire your storage, you are agreeing that you no longer need any of the data that still resides in that storage share. This data will be deleted upon retirement of the storage share and cannot be recovered.