Quickstart
From an empty workspace to a connected cluster in under five minutes.
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Open Clusters — From the left sidebar, click Clusters. The sub-items show Slurm and Kubernetes lists. Both are empty until you connect or create a cluster.
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Start the wizard — Click Prepare Cluster in the top-right corner. A three-step wizard opens.
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Choose a cluster type — Pick Slurm for traditional HPC batch workloads, Kubernetes for ML and containerized workloads, or Slurm on Kubernetes to run a Slurm scheduler inside an existing K8s cluster. If you're not sure, start with Slurm.
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Configure the cluster — Enter a name, then pick a cloud provider and cloud account (for cloud-provisioned clusters). For on-premises clusters, the wizard shows an agent installation command — run it on your infrastructure and Vantage connects automatically.
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Finish and explore — Click Prepare Cluster to submit. Once the cluster connects, click its row to open the detail view.
What's next
After your first cluster is connected, dive deeper into your cluster type:
| Guide | What it covers |
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| Creating a Slurm cluster | Provider-specific steps for Slurm |
| Creating a Kubernetes cluster | Provider-specific steps for K8s |
| Slurm partitions | Managing job queues |
| Kubernetes node groups | Managing compute pools |
Cloud cluster nodes bill while running — even idle ones. Set the maximum node count for each partition or node group conservatively during setup. You can raise it when you're ready to run jobs.