All of the volumes will be SSD from now on, large or small (technically, gp2 type as defined here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html) but no, it's not currently possibly to specify the type via user data. Regardless, to specify the volume_type the volume needs to exist a priori and so if it an SSD type was created, that's what it's going to be.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Alexander Vowinkel <vowinkel.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:

Great!
Especially also witht he IO performance.
Is it possible to define the volume type manually by putting 'volume_type' to the user data?
So I can also have smaller volumes with SSD?
Best,
Alexander

2015-07-14 13:57 GMT-05:00 Enis Afgan <enis.afgan@irb.hr>:
I just fixed this here https://github.com/galaxyproject/cloudman/commit/0f6ab132958ad57a338c66387112407edbc7632d#diff-9eba488c9175de87945a13d7b7228a6dR621

This required switching to SSD-based volumes on AWS and, besides actually being able to create volumes up to 16TB now, it should give us better IO performance now.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Alexander Vowinkel <vowinkel.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I get this error on cluster creation:

Error creating volume: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request InvalidParameterValueVolume of 2048GiB is too large for volume type standard; maximum is 1024GiB

Is there a way to get a volume that big for galaxy?

Best,
Alexander

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