EarthLink is proud to be one of the first service providers to deliver a certified Cloud Hosting service that is VMware vCloud Powered.

EarthLink VMware Cloud Hosting service can reduce your IT operating costs by consolidating resources, simplifying IT complexity, and enables more flexible, agile service delivery through virtualization.

VMware is the industry's leading virtualization software, chosen by more than 250,000 customers, including all 100 companies in the Fortune 100. The VMware hosting solutions we offer can bring your organization greater efficiency and control, faster development and deployment, increased responsiveness, and the flexibility to run both Windows and Linux environments.

Depending on the size and needs of your organization, we can provide you a single VMware virtual cloud server environment or a complete private cloud server farm running 1000s of server partitions. It's easy to migrate from your internal VMware server environment to the EarthLink VMware Cloud Hosting service, plus, your VMware platform can be extended to our VMware Cloud Hosting service as part of your own domain.

Businesses running VMware typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resources. With EarthLink VMware Cloud Hosting service, you are in full control of your cloud platform. Our Cloud Hosting service is offered with unmanaged or fully managed virtual servers.

Features
  • VMware 5 vCloud Control Panel
  • Networking equipment all housed in a N+1 architecture
  • Redundant Cisco ASA firewalls
  • Equallogic RAID10 SAN storage
  • High availability cloud
  • Automatic failover to maximize server uptime
  • Ease of administration with snapshot and cloning
  • Redundant A+B power, redundant internet access
Benefits
  • Reduce time spent for your IT team on routine IT administrative tasks
  • Improve backup and data protection
  • Increase application availability
  • Deliver business continuity preparedness
  • Enable your team to quickly respond to changing business needs
  • Focus on launching applications to drive company profitability and growth
 Architecture

The EarthLink VMware Cloud Hosting service is powered by a vSphere hypervisor running on Dell Server Hardware and Cisco Gigabit Networking Equipment all in a N+1 Architecture in our SSAE 16 Compliant Data Center. The Cloud platform supports multiple flavors or 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux virtual machines to be hosted simultaneously. VMs have their own root accounts which you can control, configure and manage.

 Control Panel

Cloud Server Management: You can build, start, stop, backup or delete cloud servers directly from the control panel. You can schedule and review nightly backups. You can set up administrators with role-based access.


 OS Templates

Our Cloud Hosting service offers many server templates that are fully pre-configured operating system environments that are used to build virtual machines. With pre-configured operating systems, you will save time and money for installation, configuration and maintenance of building out a complex server environment.

Microsoft Windows
  • Windows NT, XP (32/64), Vista (32/64), 7 (32/64)
  • Windows Server 2000, Server 2003 (32/64), Server 2003 R2 (32/64), Server 2008 (32/64), Server 2008 R2 (32/64)
Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 (32), 3 (32/64), 4 (32/64), 5 (32/64), 6 (32/64)
  • CentOS 4 (32/64), 5 (32/64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux Server 8, 9 (32/64), 10 (32/64), 11 (32/64)
  • Asianux 3 (32/64), 4 (32/64)
  • Debian / GNU Linux 4 (32/64), 5 (32/64), 6 (32/64)
  • Ubuntu (32/64)
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (32/64), 5 (32/64)
Solaris
  • Solaris 10 (32/64)
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