Virtual Server Hosting
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Virtual Server Hosting provides a virtual server for departments with Web or application hosting needs. The service enables you to operate a server on OIT’s enterprise infrastructure, with costs that are economical, fixed and predictable.
OIT Virtual Server Hosting service offers “bare metal” virtual machines, provisioned with network and storage resources. You have the option to install, configure and operate the server operating system and applications of your choosing, to benefit your local departmental needs.
Benefits
- Administrators can quickly configure and deploy servers, without concern for the purchase, maintenance or replacement of the underlying hardware.
- Services are hosted on OIT’s enterprise infrastructure in the OIT Data Center providing the benefits of highly redundant, highly available environmental systems which are not normally available to smaller departments.
- Increased server reliability also helps achieve campus goals of efficiency in power and cooling by running atop a platform tuned for optimization of electrical and cooling resources.
- Additional benefits include running server between physical hosts during maintenance and High Availability automated restart.
- Equipment is located in the OIT Data Center, utilizing the same infrastructure as OIT’s other enterprise services including: earthquake protection tables, redundant power sources, large-scale UPS, data center chilled water cooling, on-site emergency cooling, and generator-backup power.
Details
- The service is hosted on an HP blade server chassis; each blade has four gigabit Ethernet network controllers, and the maximum possible RAM.
- Storage is provisioned via OIT’s enterprise storage using an IP-based SAN.
- In addition to the redundant and high availability features in the hardware components, the VMWare virtual environment allows for dynamic movement of virtual servers between hosts, as well as High Availability (automatic restart) for virtual servers.
Operational Level Agreement (OLA)
To learn more about what is offered with Virtual Server Hosting read the Operational Level Agreement (OLA).
Contacts
- Urgent Issues – Call the OIT Help Desk at (949) 824-2222
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Operational Level Agreement (OLA)
Cost
The service offers two configurations of virtual machines: Base-Level and Large-Capacity.
- Base Level – Recommended for installations which replace outdated hardware while preserving the software instance.
- Large Capacity – Recommended for new installations with modern operating systems.
To further customize each server, customers may purchase additional incremental capacity.
| Service | Current Rates | Rate Type |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Server Hosting Service (Base system: 1 CPU core, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB Disk)/month | $13.50/base system/month | Recharge |
| Virtual Server Hosting Service (Large system: 2 CPU core, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB Disk)/month | $27.00/large system/month | Recharge |
| Additional CPU & RAM (1 additional CPU core and 2GB additional RAM increments)/month | Additional $13.50/1 additional CPU core and 2GB additional RAM/month | Recharge |
| Data Center Data Backup & Recovery | $0.055/1GB/month | Recharge |
| Data Center Storage (allocated in 100GB increments)/month | $5.70/100GB/month | Recharge |