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 provides a VPN service that allow client access their virtual resources and other orchestration tools like the ITS Private Cloud API securely. 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: Recommended Virtual Machine Disks maximum size is 6TB. Virtual Machine Disk
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