ITS Cloud News - Issue 2023.4

 
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👋 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
Two-factor authentication is an additional layer of security designed to prevent unauthorized access to your account and protect access to the Virtual Machines and other data you store with the ITS Private Cloud. Please, consider enabling MFA.
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 .

Have questions, take a look at our FAQ, a special use case, or business requirements?

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