Bringing Clarity toCloud Architecture with Virtual Private Servers

A look at an exciting new cloud architecture service

offered by OneNeck IT Services

Presented by:

Hunter Bennett

Topics

Overview - OneNeck Managed Hosting VPS Offering

VPS Advantages Available Bundles/Packages Few Additional Details

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Overview of VPS

What is VPS?

VPS, or virtual private servers are one of today’s hot cloud computing topics. VPS is a cloud architecture solution that bridges the gap between traditional shared hosting(i.e. low cost $10-20/mo. virtual web sites) and dedicated physical server hosting by allowing you to have a virtual server instance in OneNeck’s cloud infrastructure hosted in its data centers. The virtual server instances behave like a dedicated physical server to the end user, however is presented in a highly resilient framework at a lower cost than deploying physical, dedicated servers.

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Overview of VPS

What are the cloud components leveraged in this

cloud architecture?

OneNeck is leveraging VMWare vSphere 4.0 to provide server instances running for customers in their logical environment off of our centralized VPS farm hosting in our data centers. All infrastructure is provided including server infrastructure, network infrastructure, and disk (SAN) system.

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Design Overview:

The OneNeck VPS farm is divided into clusters, which are groups of physical servers working together to present VPS instances. Essentially, we have 8 physical servers per cluster with an extra ‘stand by’ server in the cluster to absorb runaway VMs or compensate for a server failure in the cluster leveraging VMWare DRS/HA.

Overview of VPS

How is it presented?

You can choose the number of virtual processors, amount of allocated RAM, and amount of allocated disk (in 100 gig increments) via our shared SAN environment for each VM container a la carte.

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What is included in our VPS offering? Physical server hardware VMWare vSphere 4 licensing Network switching infrastructure SAN/disk infrastructure 99.99% SLA uptime guarantee

VPS Advantages

What are the advantages to VPS over traditional physical servers or customer owned virtualized infrastructure?

No hardware/cap. ex. needed to be purchased No hardware support contracts, spare parts or hardware life

cycles to manage Leverages industry leading VMWare virtualization technology Highly reliable disk storage leveraging redundant SAN

infrastructure Built in redundancy and survivability (even with the entry level

VPS offering) Quick turn up (no waiting for rack/stack or equipment shipments) Lower costs for deployment and management Can integrate into existing hosted environments even if existing

environment is delivered on physical server hardware today Flexible server configurations (pick your processor count, RAM

allocation and disk space allocation) Real time and near real time DR solutions available with VPS Considered an energy efficient technology – greener for our future 99.99% uptime guarantee of VPS environment

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VPS Advantages

“OneNeck’s VPS environment is different than others because the VMs are fully managed”

VPS is fully managed thru the OS layer (unlimited administration with no additional T&M costs)

Definable backup jobs to our centralized backup system (disk -> disk -> tape -> offsite)

Dedicated firewall rules and VLAN segmentation Intrusion detection and security management services Lumension® Hotfix management Virus control and remediation Monitoring and SLA reporting thru our Customer Management

System (CMS) Expert-to-expert Technical Helpdesk (24 x always)

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VPS Bundles/Packages

Two flavors of VPS available:High Availability (HA) VPS

High Fault Tolerance (HFT) VPSSee insert for more information

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Additional Details

VPS Offering Notes: VMWare vSphere is only offering currently - Microsoft

Hyper-V and Oracle Virtualization being planned Some physical interface limitations exist (i.e.: expansion

cards) HFT offering limited to one processor and may have some

application limitations yet to be discovered VPS server must be located in a OneNeck data center VPS not always recommended for applications requiring

real time CPU, high IO/transaction volume, and some CPU intensive uses (in other words, ‘your mileage may vary’)

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Hybrid offering: Allows mixed infrastructure – physical and virtual Allows mixed OS/applications Allows CPU and IO intensive applications to reside on

physical servers in the same logical network as VPS VMs

Resources and QA

Resources: VPS Press Release:

http://www.oneneck.com/news_news_press_new.cfm?task=detail&id=PR_ONENK_090911132242_TYOI5

VPS on our Web Site: http://www.oneneck.com/solutions_out_vps.cfm

VPS Web Seminar: http://www.oneneck.com/news_events.cfm/task/activity.detail/id/AT_ONENK_090902111838_P3SSR/year/2009

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