Features
Customised deployment & integration
- We will white-label the system so it looks like your own
- Multiple options for billing system integration (metered data level, invoice-line level, invoice level), or use our billing and collection module
- All actions can be driven through an API or a web interface
Provisioning
- Self-service via Control Panel or API
- Provisioning of Virtual Dedicated Servers
- Start, stop and delete Virtual Dedicated Servers
- Resize memory, storage and grow disks
- Remote KVM console available to customer via the web interface
Scalability
- Hierarchical architecture: tens of servers per node, up to 1,000 nodes per cluster, multiple clusters per controller
- A single cluster can serve tens of thousands of customers
- Multiple storage clusters (576TB per cluster) in storage subsystem
Security
- Virtual Machines provide VM isolation
- Xen + VT support gives complete logical and security separation between each guest and its host, and thus between customers
- System provides resource constraint at a per VM level – no ‘root escalation’ issues
- No credit card details on system (stays in billing system)
Network, VPN, firewall and load balancer options
- Central IP allocation function
- Multiple virtual NICs per virtual server
- Controlled provisioning of central firewall
- VPN & firewall software on customer OS
- Golden images of ‘appliance’ software creating virtual firewall, VPN, load balancer appliances plus private VLANs
Disks, clone, snapshot backup and restore
- Multiple disks can be attached to each server
- Each disk thin-provisioned to minimise storage use
- Instant clone, snapshot backup and restore
- Customers can generate their own images
- Combine, or use in addition to conventional backup
Virtual Data Centers
- Customers can organise their servers into virtual data centers
- Aggregated measurement and billing at the VDC level
API Access
- Customer API to allow for programmatic provisioning
- Licensee APIs for billing and node management
