ITS Private Cloud News

👋 Hello from the ITS Private Cloud! Welcome to issue 2024.1. Read on for ITS Private Cloud news, tools, security advisories and features released within the last month (or so).

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News

What's new in the ITS Private Cloud? (2024-01)

Features and improvements to the ITS Private Cloud including ITS Private Cloud Portal, Command Line Interface, Virtual Machine Calculator and New Sections in the Bill.

Introducing Virtual GPUs for Virtual Machines

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new addition to the ITS Private Cloud services: virtual GPUs (vGPUs) for virtual machines, now available at an affordable price that includes NVIDIA Licensing.

Ubuntu Pro for the ITS Private Cloud Update

We are happy to announce that we made available more licenses to support Ubuntu Pro on cluster FD1. FD1 and FD3 are licensed to run Ubuntu Pro.

What's new in the ITS Private Cloud? (2023-11)

Features and improvements to the ITS Private Cloud including ITS Private Cloud Portal, Command Line Interface, Virtual Machine Calculator and more.

How-To's

How To connect and disconnect Virtual Machine network adapters

Connect and disconnect Virtual Machine Network adapters from the Portal or Command Line Interface.

How to Request a Virtual GPU

The ITS Private Cloud vGPU offering includes the technology of NVIDIA TESLA P6 TDP GPUs and is supported by NVIDIA Licensing, encompassing both the NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation and NVIDIA Virtual Applications.

How To configure and licence a provisioned vGPU

When you provision a vGPU on The ITS Private Cloud, a couple of steps must be performed before using the resource. First, a driver must be installed in the guest operating system and a license must be assigned.

How to fix the mismatch between the VM Guest Operating Setting and the Guest Running Operating System

As you upgrade your operating systems, there might be a mismatch of the VM configured operating system and the running operating system.

Tools & Formulas

Deploy Landscape to manage your Ubuntu servers

Take advantage of the Ubuntu Pro offering and manage your Ubuntu VMS with Landscape. Our team has made available a vss-cli formula 🧪 to get you up to speed.

VSS Command Line Interface (vss-cli) v2023.11.1 and v2023.12.1

Documentation and examples have been moved to our main docs website for your convenience.

Notes

ITS Private Cloud Guideline: VMware Tools

All virtual machines running on ITS Private Cloud are required to have VMware tools (or equivalent) installed and up-to-date.

Frequently Asked Questions

Explore a curated list of the ITS Private Cloud most asked questions.

Do you have questions? Take a look at our FAQ

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