Hello from the ITS Private Cloud! Welcome to issue 2023.4

ITS Cloud News

👋 Hello from the ITS Private Cloud! Welcome to issue 2023.4. Read on for ITS Private Cloud news, tools, security advisories and features released within the last month (or so).

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News

Billing and Rate Changes

We will be transitioning from the current advanced annual billing model to a usage-based monthly billing model and implementing the rate increase in a phased approach over the next three years for the ITS Private Cloud service. These service rates and billing procedures will come into effect May 1st, 2023.

Moving towards secure by default Virtual Machines (pt 3)

Recommended VMware Tools and Open VM Tools settings for Guest Operating Systems.

How-To's

Import large Virtual Machines into the ITS Private Cloud

Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is the ideal format to import pre-built virtual machines into the ITS Private Cloud.

How to archive Virtual Machines

The ITS Private Cloud offers a complimentary service for User Storage, better known as VSKEY-STOR providing support for SFTP/SCP and S3 protocols. Here you could store small to medium size VMs in OVF format for future deployment or archival purposes.

Tools & Formulas

ITS Private Cloud CLI Cheat Sheet📝

Most popular vss-cli commands including VM deployment, changes, retirement requests, MFA, folders, etc. PDF version available: https://utor.cloud/cli-cheatsheet/CLI-Cheat-sheet.pdf

Notes

ITS Private Cloud Guideline: VSS 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 .

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