2.7 Managing Your Resources

Managing Your Resources

This section covers day-to-day operations for managing your Loome resources, controlling costs, and scaling.

Resource States

State Description Billing
Running Active and accessible ✅ Charged
Stopped Shut down but preserved Reduced/None
Starting Booting up ✅ Charged
Stopping Shutting down ✅ Charged
Creating Being provisioned ✅ Charged
Deleting Being removed No charge
Failed Error occurred No charge

Starting and Stopping

Starting a Resource

  1. Navigate to Resources
  2. Find your resource
  3. Click Start
  4. Wait for status to change to “Running” (1-3 minutes)

Stopping a Resource

  1. Navigate to Resources
  2. Find your resource
  3. Click Stop
  4. Confirm the action
Tip

Always stop resources when not in use to save costs. Your data and configuration are preserved when stopped.

Resizing a Workstation

  1. Stop the workstation first
  2. Click on the workstation name
  3. Select Resize or Change Size
  4. Choose a new VM size
  5. Confirm and wait for the change to apply
  6. Start the workstation
Warning

Resizing requires the workstation to be stopped. Plan for downtime when resizing.

Scaling HPC Clusters

To adjust cluster capacity:

  1. Click on your cluster name
  2. Select Scale or Settings
  3. Adjust Min Nodes and Max Nodes
  4. Save changes

Setting min nodes to 0 lets the cluster scale down when idle, saving costs.

Deleting a Resource

  1. Stop the resource if running
  2. Click on the resource name
  3. Select Delete
  4. Confirm the deletion
Warning

Deletion is permanent. All data on the resource will be lost. Back up important data before deleting.

Understanding Costs

Cost Type Basis When Charged
Compute VM size × running time Only when Running
Storage Size per month Continuously
Data transfer Data out of Azure After free tier

Checking your costs:

  1. View Budget Summary on the Dashboard for a quick overview
  2. Go to Costs in the main menu for a detailed breakdown by resource and date range

Tips to keep costs down:

  • Stop resources when not in use
  • Set cluster min nodes to 0 for auto-scaling
  • Right-size your VMs — start small, resize if needed
  • Delete resources you no longer need
  • Check costs weekly via the Dashboard
Note

Cost data may be delayed. Check the Costs page for the most up-to-date information.

Resource Tags

Use tags to organize resources:

  1. Click on a resource
  2. Find the Tags section
  3. Add key-value pairs (e.g., project: genomics)

Tags help with cost allocation, filtering, and organization.

Azure Portal Access

For advanced management:

  1. Click on a resource in Loome
  2. Look for View in Azure or Azure Portal link
  3. You’ll be taken to the Azure portal for that resource

For detailed pricing tables, see the Reference section.

Having issues? Check the Troubleshooting & FAQs.