What's new in the ITS Private Cloud? (2023-11)

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:

1 Virtual Machine Restore Requests
2 Command Line Interface v2023.11.1
- 2.1 Copy vmdk files from virtual machine to virtual machine with a couple of commands
- 2.2 Virtual Machine Memory Reservation
3 Virtual Machine Network Adapter Management Improvements on the Portal
4 Virtual Machine Cost Calculator

Virtual Machine Restore Requests

Earlier this month, we released the virtual machine restore requests https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/blog/2023/11/08/1402667017 and an article about how to https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1406042121.

VM Restore Points. ITS Private Cloud Portal.

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

# 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.

For example 2311P-VM-A has 16GB of memory and I would like to reserve 8GB, you can use the vss-cli as follows:

vss-cli compute vm set 2311P-VM-A memory reservation 8

Note that 8GB will be billed with standard memory rate and 8GB will be billed with reserved memory rate.

To disable memory reservation use:

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.

Virtual Machine Cost Calculator

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

In the Additional Services we are introducing UTORrecover Backups to the cost estimator. Once you click on it, a churn rate and protected data field will show up, along with a message with further details about how the cost of backups is calculated.

In the Additional Resources section you can add Memory Reservation to the cost estimator. Remember Memory Reservation has a cost of$175 per GiB per year.