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Ivy and Rio Secure Environment
The UVA secure environment consists of Ivy virtual machines (Linux and Windows) and Rio HPC. Researchers can use Ivy and Rio to process and store highly-sensitive data with the confidence that the environment is secure and meets requirements for HIPAA, FERPA, and controlled-access data (e.g. dbGaP, NIMH NDA, etc.). However, projects involving CUI or Export-Controlled data cannot access Rio at this time. To access Rio HPC, researchers must request a Ivy Linux virtual machine (VM) which serves as a login node.
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UVA Anywhere VPN on Linux
ITS does not support the UVA Anywhere VPN client on Linux. These instructions may work but they are provided for user information only. UVA RC does not support usage of the VPN on any platform.
Setting up the VPN Install Software Prerequisites
You must install some software using yum,dnf, or apt-get. Note the slight difference in naming convention between distributions.
Rocy/Alma/RedHat/Fedora
These distributions need the following packages:
openssl openconnect NetworkManager-openconnect NetworkManager-openconnect-gnome Ubuntu
The packages are the same but the names are different. Ubuntu 18.04 and up requires an additional package.
openssl openconnect network-manager-openconnect network-manager-gnome network-manager-openconnect-gnome It will be necessary for Network Manager to be able to manage the connection.
Research Data Storage
There are a variety of options for storing research data at UVA. Public, internal use, and sensitive data storage systems can be accessed from the Rivanna and Afton high performance computing systems. Highly sensitive data can be stored and accessed within the Ivy secure computing environment. University Information Security provides an overview of the data sensitivity classifications, while our Data Sensitivity and Research Computing Systems table specifies where each type of data can be stored or analyzed in compliance with regulations. To see more data storage options available on Grounds please visit the UVA Data Storage Finder.
All UVA faculty are eligible to serve as PI and request access to RC services (e.
