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We are excited to announce the following features and improvements to the ITS Private Cloud, all designed to enhance your experience and streamline your computing needs:

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Virtual Machine Restore Requests

Earlier this month, we released the virtual machine restore requests Introducing Virtual Machine Restore Requests: A Leap Forward in VM Recovery and an article about how to Request Virtual Machine Restore.

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Each successful Virtual Machine Restore Requests produce a one-time fee based on storage type and provisioned storage.

Command Line Interface v2023.11.1

Copy vmdk files from virtual machine to virtual machine with a couple of commands

Code Block
# Get source VM disk path: file_name
vss-cli --columns=label,capacity_gib,file_name compute vm get 2311P-VM-A disk

# Submit copy request for the target
vss-cli compute vm set 2311P-VM-B disk cp \
--disk '{"capacity_gb": 100, "backing_vmdk": "[XXXX-NN] vm-name/vm-name_1.vmdk"}'

Virtual Machine Memory Reservation

Starting from December 1, 2023, any reserved memory on your instances will incur a charge of $175 per GiB per year. This change reflects our ongoing commitment to provide high-performance cloud services while also promoting efficient resource usage across our platform.

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Code Block
vss-cli compute vm set 2311P-VM-A memory reservation 0

Virtual Machine Network Adapter Management Improvements on the Portal

Connect and disconnect network adapters from the ITS Private Cloud Portal.

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Virtual Machine Cost Calculator

This iteration includes new sections called “Additional Resources” and “Additional Services” .

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