docs: Document Pod experience updates: Deploy When Available, savings plan discontinuation, Recommended/NVLink, Pod inspector#662
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- Deploy When Available, Recommended tab, and NVLink banner in choose-a-pod - Deploy When Available tip in get-started quickstart - Savings plan discontinuation notice; remove active creation framing - Pod inspector: Template details rename + Report problem button - June 2026 product update entry
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| When you deploy a multi-GPU Pod (a GPU count greater than 1) on an H100, H200, or B200, a banner tells you whether the GPU supports NVLink. Only SXM and NVL cards provide NVLink for high-bandwidth GPU-to-GPU communication, which benefits distributed training and other workloads that exchange large amounts of data between GPUs. | ||
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| ### Deploy when available |
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Documented the Deploy when available window options from CON-152: clicking the Now or In 24 hours block opens a calendar selector with hour/minute precision, and 24 hours is the default. CON-132 establishes the feature exists for out-of-capacity GPUs with email + inbox notifications.
Source: https://linear.app/runpod/issue/CON-152/update-deploy-when-available-from-and-to-ux
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| When your chosen GPU is out of capacity, you don't have to deploy immediately or keep retrying. Select **Deploy When Available** to queue your Pod, and Runpod deploys it automatically as soon as the GPU frees up. | ||
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| You set a window for when Runpod should attempt the deployment: |
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Sourced the email + console inbox notification "when your Pod deploys or finishes migrating" from CON-10 (notify when a Pod becomes available during migrations) combined with CON-132's email + inbox notification support.
Source: https://linear.app/runpod/issue/CON-10/notify-when-a-pod-becomes-available-during-migrations
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| When you deploy a Pod, the deploy screen surfaces a few features that help you find available capacity and choose the best GPU for your workload. | ||
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| ### Recommended tab |
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Described the Recommended tab behavior from CON-34: it shows the template's recommended GPUs first, then adds up to three additional available GPUs ranked by VRAM (stockStatus not null) that aren't already recommended.
Source: https://linear.app/runpod/issue/CON-34/show-high-availability-options-in-recommended
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| The **Recommended** tab highlights the GPUs best suited to your selected template. It lists the template's recommended GPUs first, then adds up to three more GPUs that are currently available, ranked by VRAM. This lets you compare strong recommendations against options that are in stock and ready to deploy right away. | ||
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| ### NVLink availability |
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Sourced the NVLink availability banner for multi-GPU deploys (GPU count > 1) on H100/H200/B200, and that only SXM and NVL cards support NVLink, from CON-9 acceptance criteria and Greg Wester's note that "NVL and SXM are advertisements for nvlink."
Source: https://linear.app/runpod/issue/CON-9/show-nvlink-availability-for-multi-gpu-pod-deploys
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| Savings plans only cover GPU compute costs—[storage costs](/pods/storage/types) are billed at standard rates. Storage charges continue to accrue on stopped Pods. If your balance reaches \$0, your Pods stop: those with a network volume are preserved, while those without one are terminated and their data cannot be recovered. Plans are non-refundable and have fixed expiration dates. | ||
| Savings plans have been discontinued. You can no longer create new savings plans, but existing plans are unaffected and remain active until their commitment period expires. |
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Rewrote the Savings plans section as a discontinuation notice per CON-171: savings plan creation is being hidden/disabled while existing plans remain unaffected and run to expiration (~300 affected users notified by email).
Source: https://linear.app/runpod/issue/CON-171/discontinue-savings-plans
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| Access logs from the [Pods page](https://www.console.runpod.io/pods) by expanding your Pod and clicking **Logs**. | ||
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| ## View template details |
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Added the View template details section from CON-108: in the Pod inspector, "Template readme" was renamed to "Template details" and a "Report problem with template" button was added that opens an open-ended feedback modal.
Source: https://linear.app/runpod/issue/CON-108/add-template-feedback-inside-the-pod-details
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Documents Pod experience features from Console Experience cycles 1–2 (Linear DOCS-450): Deploy When Available for out-of-capacity GPUs, Recommended tab behavior, NVLink availability banner, savings plan discontinuation, and the Pod inspector "Template details" rename plus "Report problem" feedback button.
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