Run your applications without worrying about the servers underneath. We provide no-cost, secure, reliable virtual machines and containers for L&S units, and we handle the operating system, monitoring, backups, patching, and lifecycle management.

This service is a good fit for smaller systems that support your unit’s core administrative or instructional work. It isn’t designed to host WordPress sites. Campus web hosting services are built for that and will serve you better. We review each request individually to make sure it’s the right fit, and if it isn’t, we’ll help you find a better option.

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Service Details

Who’s Eligible?

This service is available to any L&S department or administrative unit requiring virtualization hosting services that will support administrative or instructional functions. Research and high-performance computing workloads may be referred to other campus services.

What’s Included?

• Setting up your virtual machines or containers, and managing them through their full lifecycle
• Remote Desktop, SSH, SFTP, or similar access for your authorized staff
• Scheduled operating system patching and security updates
• Monitoring and alerting
• Disaster recovery
• Troubleshooting and support for the server and platform
• Our standard monitoring, backup, and security tools, which keep your system stable and secure
• Resources (CPU, memory, storage) sized to fit your needs
• Operating system and management tool licensing

What’s Not Included?

• Building or customizing applications
• Licensing, troubleshooting, or support for your applications
• Opting out of our standard management tools

Your Responsibilities

• Keeping us up to date on your primary contacts
• Telling us about your application’s requirements, maintenance constraints, and operational needs
• Supporting your application and its end users
• Testing your application after maintenance or updates
• Handling application licensing and vendor relationships
• Deciding what data goes on your system and making sure it’s handled according to university policy (we secure the platform; you’re responsible for the data)

Request a consult to learn more.