You provide the physical dedicated hardware; Micron21 provides you a fully managed VMware ESX Enterprise Plus environment, with direct access to our Micron21 ESX Sever farm, including processing power, memory, NAS and SAN storage, which together provide a powerful highly redundant service. By adding your physical server to our ESX server farm, 99% of the time your virtual images are run on your own hardware, but when something goes horribly wrong Micron21 can provide you with instant redundancy using capacity on our hardware.
Micron21 provides all of our clients a fully managed VMware Vsphere environment, we take responsibility for monitoring, patching, upgrading each ESX server ensuring your virtual machines are always available.
Key Benefits
| VMware ESX Enterprise Plus License – Fully managed by Micron21 | |
| Dedicated Lun SAS 15k Raid 10 Storage connected via gigabit | |
| Dedicated NAS storage for real time backups of your mission critical Virtual Images (Daily, weekly and Monthly) | |
| Complete High Availability - VMotion DRS | |
| Complete management of the ESX host, including patches and upgrades with real time monitoring | |
| True console administration of your virtual machine via web console | |
| The ability to remotely shutdown, suspend or restart your each Virtual Machines | |
| The ability to remotely mount and boot ISO images | |
| True console administration of your Virtual Machines | |
| Complete High Availability - Fault Tolerance | |
| No need to invest in redundant servers, use Micron21 ESX server farm as your redundancy |
Pricing
$100.00 per month per physical server (Includes 1 Virtual Machine) $30.00 extra for every other Virtual Machine per month.
Virtual Co-Location Storage Options
Micron21 has two network based storage options available. Our SAN storage designed for mission critical services, or our NAS storage designed for disaster recovery backup. Each customer who utilizes our SAN storage receives a dedicated gigabit port, on a dedicated LUN on our SAN. Each LUN is created to your specific size requirement within a RAID 10 array using SAS 15k disks. Our NAS storage area is designed for disaster recovery backup of your important files based on a fast Ethernet service utilizing RAID 1 technology; each customer receives a SMB or FTP login to the shared storage.
| Storage Options Per Month | 50 GB | 100 GB | 200 GB | 500 GB | 1000 GB | 2000 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated LUN - 15k SAS - SAN Storage Raid 10 - 1000mbits | NA | NA | $500 | $1000 | $1800 | Call |
| Shared NAS storage - RAID 1 100mbits | $45 | $80 | $140 | $300 | $500 | $800 |
All Prices are EX GST