diff --git a/README b/README
index 5a61a6f6..dc389bd4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 HSCloud
 =======
 
-This is a monorepo. You'll need bash and Bazel 0.20.0+ to use it.
+This is a monorepo. You'll need bash and Bazel 1.0.0+ to use it.
+
+If you have Nix installed you will also be able to manage bare metal nodes. If you don't want that, you can skip it.
 
-You'll also need Nix installed globally in your system until [rules_nixpkgs/75](https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs/issues/75) is resolved. Or run on NixOS.
 
 Getting started
 ---------------
diff --git a/cluster/README b/cluster/README
index b012b5c1..01208592 100644
--- a/cluster/README
+++ b/cluster/README
@@ -7,15 +7,21 @@ Accessing via kubectl
 ---------------------
 
     prodaccess # get a short-lived certificate for your use via SSO
+               # if youre local username is not the same as your HSWAW SSO
+               # username, pass `-username foo`
     kubectl version
     kubectl top nodes
 
 Every user gets a `personal-$username` namespace. Feel free to use it for your own purposes, but watch out for resource usage!
 
-Persistent Storage
-------------------
+    kubectl run -n personal-$username run --image=alpine:latest -it foo
 
-HDDs on bc01n0{1-3}. 3TB total capacity.
+To proceed further you should be somewhat familiar with Kubernetes. Otherwise the rest of terminology might not make sense. We recommend going through the original Kubernetes tutorials.
+
+Persistent Storage (waw2)
+-------------------------
+
+HDDs on bc01n0{1-3}. 3TB total capacity. Don't use this as this pool should go away soon (the disks are slow, the network is slow and the RAID controllers lie). Use ceph-waw3 instead.
 
 The following storage classes use this cluster:
 
@@ -26,7 +32,22 @@ The following storage classes use this cluster:
 
 Rados Gateway (S3) is available at https://object.ceph-waw2.hswaw.net/. To create a user, ask an admin.
 
-PersistentVolumes currently bound to PVCs get automatically backued up (hourly for the next 48 hours, then once every 4 weeks, then once every month for a year).
+PersistentVolumes currently bound to PersistentVolumeClaims get automatically backed up (hourly for the next 48 hours, then once every 4 weeks, then once every month for a year).
+
+Persistent Storage (waw3)
+-------------------------
+
+HDDs on dcr01s2{2,4}. 40TB total capacity for now. Use this.
+
+The following storage classes use this cluster:
+
+ - `waw-hdd-yolo-3` - 1 replica
+ - `waw-hdd-redundant-3` - 2 replicas
+ - `waw-hdd-redundant-3-object` - 2 replicas, object store
+
+Rados Gateway (S3) is available at https://object.ceph-waw3.hswaw.net/. To create a user, ask an admin.
+
+PersistentVolumes currently bound to PVCs get automatically backed up (hourly for the next 48 hours, then once every 4 weeks, then once every month for a year).
 
 Administration
 ==============
@@ -34,7 +55,8 @@ Administration
 Provisioning nodes
 ------------------
 
- - bring up a new node with nixos, running the configuration.nix from bootstrap (to be documented)
+ - bring up a new node with nixos, the configuration doesn't matter and will be nuked anyway
+ - edit cluster/nix/defs-machines.nix
  - `bazel run //cluster/clustercfg nodestrap bc01nXX.hswaw.net`
 
 Ceph - Debugging