Virtual Servers
Overview
UT Virtual (UT-V) provides cost-effective, reliable virtual machines (VM) based on the VMware vSphere infrastructure. UT-V is intended to serve departments, colleges, and research units that benefit from the gains provided by server virtualization: improved server reliability and availability, lower total operational costs, and smaller carbon footprint through more efficient utilization of physical servers.
| UT-V is Recommended for: | UT-V is Not Recommended for: |
|---|---|
| Web Hosting Servers | High-Performance Computing |
| Application Servers | High-Performance Database |
| Test and Development Servers | Servers that require OS-level clustering |
Features
- Lower capital costs for Customers by reducing need for IT infrastructure purchases
- Enterprise scale virtual service infrastructure, including:
- Pro-active maintenance of all necessary infrastructure components including physical servers, networking, storage, VMware management software
- UT-V is housed in secure University Data Centers to take full advantage of redundant power, cooling, and state of the art facility support
- Redundant Ethernet connections to network in full compliance with University Data Center dual networking failover (LACP) guidelines
- Reduced downtime for physical infrastructure maintenance
- UT-V OS drive is provisioned on enterprise class fiber channel and SAS storage
- Customers retain system administration of UT-V VMs
- Add-on Features:
- Additional storage is available in 100GB increments at extra cost
- UTBackup available at extra cost, for full-featured VM backup and file-level recovery
- Standards-based systems administration for a UT-V VM is available from ITS Managed Server Support as a fee-for-service
- UT-V saves significant power - approximately 6570 kWh per year per virtualized server
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Cost
2012-2013 Year Pricing
UT-V is provisioned in virtual machine units (VMU).
| Option | Specifications | Cost/Year |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Machine Unit (VMU) | 1 GB RAM | $100 |
| 25 GB OS Storage | ||
| 1 vCPU | ||
| Virtual Machine Storage Unit (VMSU) | 100GB | $40 |
| Tier 1 Virtual Machine Storage Unit (T1VMSU) | 10GB | $30 |
Configuration Examples
| Customer Configuration | Purchase | Provisioned Configuration | Cost/Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Windows Virtual Machine with 8GB | 8 VMU | 1 Windows VM | VMU: $800 |
| of RAM and 250GB of additional storage | 3 VMSU | 8GB vRAM | VMSU: $120 |
| 50GB OS Drive | |||
| 300GB Additional Storage | |||
| One Linux Virtual Machine with 1 GB RAM | 1 VMU | 1 Linux VM | VMU: $100 |
| 1GB RAM | |||
| 25GB OS Drive |
Notes on Provisioning
Please see the Notes on Provisioning section of the UT-V Polices page for more information.
