VMware Hosting for Mission Critical Applications in Australia
Quadra Hosting provides a highly redundant and reliable server platform that is built on high performance VMware ESX Enterprise and EMC Storage Area Network systems.
VMware Virtualization vs. Traditional Hosting Solutions
| VMware vs. shared hosting and VPS | VMware vs. Dedicated Hosting |
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| Hosted VMware virtual machines are superior to shared hosting or a virtual private server (VPS) because they get their own dedicated operating system and are fully isolated from other virtual machines on the server hardware. As a result, customers no longer have to worry about having their hosted service overrun by another service on the same box. | Hosted virtual machines deliver better availability than dedicated servers because they can be migrated from one server to another with no downtime. Hosted virtual machines are also easier to scale without purchasing additional hardware, and more secure because each virtual machine is completely abstracted from the hardware and isolated from other virtual machines. |
Redundancy to the Max
Our VMware ESX Enterprise hosting infrastructure has one purpose in mind: high availability. This is achieved by utilising redundant components all throughout the system:
- Redundant power supply: each server, fibre channel switch, storage processors, and RAID disks utilise redundant power supplies. This is the first line of defense against the most common failure in a server environment.
- RAID disks with hot-spare.
- Storage Area Network - provides a high performance, server independent, centralised storage subsystem. A very important ingredient in our high availability solution
- Redundant fibre channel switches with automatic fail-over. Each of these FC switches has redundant power supplies as well.
- Redundant SAN storage processors - each with redundant power and redundant FC adapters.
- Redundant servers for automatic fail-over should one server failed (optional).
- Redundant network routers.
- Multiple upstream links to the Internet
- Peering links to other major Internet and media companies.
- Multiple physical fibre paths into the building.
- N+1 Power system with UPS and generator backups.
- HVAC cooling and environmental control system.
- VESDA fire suppression system.
VMware Server Packages
| Features | VM Basic | VM Value | VM Standard | VM Pro |
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| RAM | 512M | 1G | 2G | 4G |
| Traffic (extra traffic $4.40/GB) |
50GB | 100GB | 400GB | 1000GB |
| CPU (Number of Cores) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Storage subsystem | High performance enterprise grade EMC SAN fabric | |||
| Disk Space (including space used by the operating system) | 25GB | 50GB | 75GB | 100GB |
| Usable Disk Space under Managed Service | 5GB | 30GB | 55GB | 80GB |
| Additional Disk Space | $4.95/GB/month | |||
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| Operating Systems | Windows 2003, FreeBSD, Linux: CentOS, Fedora Core, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc. | |||
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| Setup Fee | $199.95 | $199.95 | $199.95 | $199.95 |
| Monthly Fee | $199.95 | $349.95 | $749.95 | $1,499.95 |
Comprehensive Server Management Package
VMware servers offer the utmost in reliability and expansion flexibility at an affordable cost. However, we understand that not everyone has the experience nor the time to manage a server. Quadra Hosting offers an optional comprehensive management service for your VMware server. This means that we will:
- Install and configure the operating system
- Update, patch and secure it.
- Install and configure the web server, ftp server, and database servers when required.
- Integrate our control panel into your dedicated server, so you can manage your sites through the control panel.
- Monitor its performance, and uptime and intervene when necessary to ensure that your site runs in the optimal condition.
- Provide you with our multi-server redundant DNS.
- Organise a regular data backup.
- Install any software required by your applications.
| Comprehensive System Management (optional) | ||||
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| Monthly fee | $149.95 | |||
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| 24x7 Automated System and Service Monitoring | |
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| Redundant DNS Servers outside your VM | |
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| Regular Data Backup | |
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| Restoration Request | $66 per incident | |||
| Operating System Options: | Windows 2003, FreeBSD | |||
All prices are in Australian Dollars and inclusive of GST