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 **Availability Zone: There is only one zone.  Leave it unchanged.
 **Instance name: <code>test</code><br/>Make up a name for your instance.
-**Flavor: <code>c1-3.75gb-36</code><br/>The flavor name defines the specifications of the VM. This particular flavor has one virtual CPU, 3.75 GB of RAM (memory) and an ephemeral disk of 36GB. Ephemeral disks are disks created with the image and reside on the local hardware running the VM. Flavors starting with a "p" do not have an extra ephemeral disk and thus no "-##" on the end. They also have a very small root disk of only 2.2G, with a typical OS taking about 770MB of that. The root disk, as you might have guessed, is mounted at the root of the linux file system. Flavors starting with a "c" have an extra ephemeral disk attached, as well as a 20GB root disk.
+**Flavor: <code>c1-3.75gb-36</code><br/>The flavor name defines the specifications of the VM. This particular flavor has one virtual CPU, 3.75 GB of RAM (memory) and an ephemeral disk of 36GB. Ephemeral disks are disks created and destroyed with the instance and reside on the local hardware running the VM. Flavors starting with a "p" do not have an extra ephemeral disk and thus no "-##" on the end. They also have a very small root disk of only 2.2G, with a typical OS taking about 770MB of that. The root disk, as you might have guessed, is mounted at the root of the linux file system. Flavors starting with a "c" have an extra ephemeral disk attached, as well as a 20GB root disk.
 **Instance Count: <code>1</code><br/>The number of VMs to create.
 **Instance Boot Source: Boot from image<br/> Indicates that you wish to boot from an already created image.
 **Image Name: <code>CentOS-7-x86-64-GenericCloud-1503</code><br/>Name of the image to boot from.
-**Project Limits: The green bars reflect the fraction of your available resources that will be consumed by the VM you are about to launch. If the bars become red it indicates the flavor chosen will consume more resources than your project has available. Blue bars indicate any existing resources you project may be using.
+**Project Limits: The green bars reflect the fraction of your available resources that will be consumed by the VM you are about to launch. If the bars become red it indicates the flavor chosen will consume more resources than your project has available. Blue bars indicate any existing resources your project may be using.
 *Access & Security tab<br/>
 **Key Pair: Select your SSH key pair. If you have only one, it will be selected by default.  If you do not have a key pair please see above steps [Cloud Quick Start#SSH Key Pair].