Virtual Hosting: Academic
Secure and efficient shared hosting environment for faculty and graduate students to build and manage virtual servers to support their research, teaching, and learning needs.
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Features
- Ideal for academic workloads, small research systems, customized academic websites, self-managed developer sandboxes, and non-critical applications
- Secure hardware and software platform for running multiple virtual machines (VMs)Secure hardware and software platform for running multiple virtual machines (VMs)System is supported and administered by ITS
- Server size limit of 4 vCPU max.
- Available for Protection Level 1 (P1) and Protection Level 2 (P2) data only. Not approved for P3-P4 or other data with high regulatory requirements
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Support
- Hosting options at UC Santa Cruz
- Learn more about Virtual Hosting in the ITS Knowledge Base
Cost
Virtual Hosting: Academic is provided at no cost
Requirements
- Graduate students must have faculty approval to use.
- Workload must qualify as academic use (research, teaching, or learning)
- Workload must be able to sustain brief downtimes (see the ITS Maintenance Calendar)
- Users must follow Data Center Networking Standards
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