The CIS Division provides hosting services for physical servers in the central server farm and virtual hosting services in designated clusters.
Hosting virtual servers
The CIS Division provides virtual server hosting services on the virtualization infrastructure of VMWare. The service is intended for customers interested in a departmental/faculty server operating under one of the supported operating systems.
Service specification for virtual servers:
- Infrastructure with high availability (server cluster)
- Connectivity to NetApp storage
- Advanced communications infrastructure with redundancy
- Operating systems: Windows Server and the following Linux systems: CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu
- Local daily backup with recovery option up to 30 days back according to the backup policy
- Remote site backup option at additional charge
- Monitoring of SolarWinds software
- Ability to access servers on RDP or SSH (subject to information security practices)
Cost of service:
The hosting costs are published in the services price list., which is updated from time to time,
The service includes backup to a local site using VEEAM software according to the backup policy.
The cost of hosting can be estimated using this calculator.
Register for the service
At https://e-shop.technion.ac.il for authorized budget manager.
- Authorized budget manager: Go to the SAP portal, click on "Purchase software and services" and select "Services / Hosting".
- Faculty Engineers (to be paid via Technion budget): Go to the Computer Account Management Website , click on "Purchase software and services" and select "Services / Hosting".
Note: The service is annual, and a budget that is given for an initial purchase will also be required to renew the service unless stated otherwise.
Activate the virtual hosting service
Upon completion of administrative processes, including payment for the hosting and receiving approval for registration for the service from the Secretariat of the Computing Division,
please contact vmware@technion.ac.il with the approval.