Guidelines

The ITS Private Cloud guidelines are pivotal for ensuring secure, efficient, and reliable use of infrastructure resources. Adhering to these standards helps maintain the integrity and performance of the ITS Private Cloud.

• VPN: The ITS Private Cloud offers a VPN service that enables client to securily access their virtual resources and other orchestration tools like the ITS Private Cloud API. VSS VPN Guidelines

• Virtual Machine Snapshot Management: According VSS best practices (based on VMware best practices), the maximum lifetime for a VM snapshot should be 72 hours. Snapshot Management

• VMware Tools: All virtual machines running on ITS Private Cloud are required to have VMware tools (or equivalent) installed and up-to-date. VMware Tools

• Virtual Machine Disk: Virtual Machine Disk

  • Recommended Virtual Machine Disks maximum size is 6TB.

  • Each domain has at least one SSD and one HDD storage clusters are provided. HDD is default if not set.

• Virtual Machine Administrator: All virtual machines running on ITS Private Cloud are required to have VM Administrator up-to-date. Virtual Machine Administrator

• Virtual Machine Templates: Remove Virtual Machine Network Adapters unmount Floppy/ISO Images from Virtual CD/DVD Devices. Virtual Machine Templates

• ISO Images: To ensure the execution of the vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and to offer High Availability (HA) for your Virtual Machine, it may be necessary to automatically unmount ISO images from your VMs. ISO Images

• User Storage: The ITS Private Cloud offers a VSS User Storage aka VSKEY-STOR service that enables client to store files such as virtual machines exports, import files, ISO images, inventory files produced by the ITS Private Cloud orchestration tools. VSS User Storage Guidelines

• Virtual Machine Restore Requests: Allow you to restore your virtual machine from storage snapshots. Regularly back up critical data using UTORrecover. Use Restore Requests only in emergencies, as they are not a substitute for file-level backups or vCenter snapshots. Virtual Machine Restore Requests