What's new in the ITS Private Cloud? (2025-04)

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

1 Announcements
- 1.1 Rate Changes: Phase 3
- 1.2 vCenter Upgraded to v8.0
- 1.3 Virtual Machine Encryption
2 ITS Private Cloud Portal
- 2.1 VM Encryption
3 Command Line Interface
- 3.1 v2025.2.1
4 How-to articles

Announcements

Rate Changes: Phase 3

Starting May 1st, 2025, we will enter Phase 3 of our structured rate adjustment for the ITS Private Cloud service. https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/blog/2025/02/24/1945698399

vCenter Upgraded to v8.0

Now that the ITS Private Cloud vCenter Server has been successfully upgraded to v8.0, we recommend reviewing the following https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1074298881 to get familiar with the new changes, including Operating Systems, Security features and more.

Virtual Machine Encryption

Encryption for Virtual Machine disks is now available via the ITS Private Cloud Portal, API, and Command Line Interface. Learn more https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1944879137 .

ITS Private Cloud Portal

VM Encryption

This feature enhances the protection of sensitive data and ensures the security and integrity of virtual environments against unauthorized access and potential breaches.

You can now enable or disable "encryption" using the "Encryption" toggle as demonstrated below.

The encryption or decryption process may take many minutes to hours depending on the VM provisioned size.

Command Line Interface

v2025.2.1

`compute vm get encryption`: add command to obtain current vm encryption status.

vss-cli compute vm get {vm-id} encryption

is_encrypted        : True
migrate_encryption_mode: required
ft_encryption_mode  : ftEncryptionRequired

The attribute is_encrypted indicates the overall encryption status of the virtual machine. migrate_encryption_mode specifies that vMotion will be encrypted, while ft_encryption_mode enables Fault Tolerance Encryption.

`compute vm set encryption`: add command to set vm encryption status.

More shown in the change logs https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1356923058/Changelog#v2025.2.1-(2025-02-21)

How-to articles

How-to encrypt your virtual Machine

https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1944879137

How-to decommission virtual or physical hosts in UTORrecover

https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1930297345

How-to switch your Virtual Machine storage type to SSD or HDD in the ITS Private Cloud Portal

https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1923678209