Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by VMware(RPC-VMware) provides a single-tenant hosted private cloud, designed with server, storage, and networking hardware from trusted vendors such as Dell®, EMC®, and Cisco®, that’s proactively managed 24x7x365 by our VMware Certified Professionals. For more information, see the following resources:
Feature | VMware Server Virtualization | Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by VMware |
---|---|---|
Managed support for VMware stack and underlying hardware | Yes | Yes |
Managed guest OS-layer support (for example, OS patching) |
Yes | No |
Hosted catalogs | No | - Customer-provided OS - Rackspace-provided OS with host-based licensing (optional) |
Self-service portal | No | Yes |
Access via API | None | - vSphere® API - vCloud® API (optional) - NSX™ API (optional) - vSAN API (optional) - vRealize API (optional) |
Access via GUI | MyRackspace® Web Portal | - vSphere Web Interface - vCloud Web Portal (optional) - vRealize Operations Web Portal (optional) - vRealize Web Portal (optional) |
Single-tenant vSphere hypervisors | Yes | Yes |
Storage options | - Local disk - DAS - SAN - Dedicated EMC SAN - NetApp NAS |
- SAN - Dedicated EMC SAN - NetApp NAS - VMware vSAN |
Networking options | - Brocade® - F5® - Cisco |
- Brocade - F5 - Cisco - NSX Software-Defined Networking |
Service level options | - Managed SLA - Intensive SLA |
- Intensive SLA |
Compatible with VMware vRA | No | Yes |
Capacity planning | Rackspace assistance provided | VMware vROps Included |
Automation tools | No | - vApp Deployment Automation (optional vCloud Director) - vRealize Automation (optional) - Chef® / Ansible® / Puppet plug-in Ecosystem |
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