Benefits
Reduce the overall cost of hardware through consolidation and data center resources (power and cooling).
Faster provisioning while providing improved system security, reliability, and scalability.
Leverage the virtual infrastructure in place and focus your resources on providing specialty services.
Services include:
- Managed Virtual Machines
- Self-managed Virtual Machines
- Private VM Clusters
- High-performance storage
- High-speed networking
- Application load balancing
- Highly Available (HA) architectures
- Secure environments
- 24/7 monitoring of critical infrastructure
How to request service
- How to fill out Virtual Infrastructure (VI) intake form [PDF]
- Submit VI intake form
- Report an incident or request a service
More information
- Eligibility: All departments are eligible
- Cost: Varies
- Virtual Infrastructure Hosting Service Level Expectations [PDF]
Virtual Server
When you request a virtual machine you have two options: “Managed” or “Unmanaged.” Regardless of choice, OIT Enterprise Infrastructure team (OIT EI) will create the virtual container for the guest OS. With “Managed,” OIT EI will do the OS installation, while with “Unmanaged,” a bare-metal instance of the VM will be provided.
Managed option
If “Managed” option is chosen, OIT Enterprise Infrastructure team will be responsible for the following:
- Virtual container for guest operating system
- Windows or Red Hat/CentOS install
- System administration
- Firewall
- Patching
- Backup
- Monitoring
Self-managed option
If “Unmanaged” is chosen, the following is the assumed responsibility from the client side:
- Virtual Machine for guest operating system
- Responsible for obtaining OS (Windows or RedHAT/CentOS) and other software required
- Self-management console
- Dedicated VLAN
- Optional file-level backup
- Patching
VM Build Options
Windows and Linux
| M1.Small | M1.Medium | M1.Large | M1.xLarge | M1.2xLarge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1vCPU 4GB Mem 50GB Storage Linux or Windows | 2vCPU 8GBMem 50GB Storage Linux or Windows | 4vCPU 16GB 50GB Storage Linux or Windows | 8vCPU 32GB Mem 50GB Storage Linux or Windows | 16vCPU 64GB Mem 50GB Storage Linux or Windows |
Solaris
| S1.Small | S1.Medium | S1.Large | S1.xLarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPARC 1 Core 8 Threads 16GB Mem Solaris | SPARC 1 Core 16 Threads 32GB Mem Solaris | SPARC 1 Core 24 Threads 48GB Mem Solaris | SPARC 1 Core 32 Threads 64GB Mem Solaris |