Request a Virtual Server

Complete and submit the form for your situation.

• New Virtual Server Request (On-Premises)
• New Virtual Server Request (AWS)
• New Virtual Server Request (Azure)

Costs

Monthly Rates: See the Fees and Billing page.

Maintenance

Maintenance of Virtual Servers

Operating system patches are maintained by CIT. Scheduled down times are required to install patches.

Maintenance of Underlying Virtual Data Center

The high availability options outlined below allow virtual servers to be moved while the underlying physical server is upgraded and maintained. There should be no server interruption during maintenance and upgrades.

High Availability

The current Nutanix environment has multiple independent clusters in separate data centers. Each cluster is connected to multiple network switches for redundancy. Virtual servers can be transparently moved between physical hosts within a cluster so that the Nutanix hypervisors can be maintained and upgraded without service interruption. If one of the physical hypervisor servers fails in a cluster, virtual servers are automatically restarted on another server within the same cluster. Mission-critical applications can be horizontally scaled across independent clusters in the two datacenters optionally behind highly-available load balancers. 

Storage in Nutanix is local to each cluster. In the event of a datacenter outage, storage in a cluster in one building would not be available to virtual machines in the other building. A complete disaster recovery solution should include mechanisms to propagate data between the two datacenters. This is not built-in to our current virtual machine offering.