Creating your own cloud makes your managed configuration all the more powerful.

Usually, when a business talks about running a managed private cloud their reasoning is reasonably grounded in a desire to optimize their server resources – to get the most efficient use out of their server capacity. In reality, there are two other equally compelling motives to virtualize a managed hosting configuration. Greater reliability and seamless scaling through VMware’s built in features make a typical managed hosting environment all the more easy to work with.

With PEER 1 Hosting’s Private Managed Cloud, you benefit from all the advantages of VMware, but your virtual machines reside on your own secure, dedicated hardware with our certified VMware supporting them. On dedicated hardware, many of the business and regulatory obstacles that keep you from utilizing a public cloud are overcome. And just as many of the limitations posed by a typical managed configurations become moot – quick and reliable recovery, migration and scaling – both vertically and horizontally. It really is the best of both the managed and virtualization worlds.

Using your VMware vSphere™ client, you can directly manage and monitor your virtual data centre, too. The hosting experience really doesn't get much better than this.

Features and Benefits

To list all of the features and benefits would be an an unending exercise since the PEER 1 Hosting support and infrastructure combined with VMware create countless possibilities. The following are just the beginning of what is possible.

Run multiple Operating Systems Simultaneously

With multiple VMs running on the the same physical server, you can deploy multiple and different operating sytems. No longer do you need to deploy numerous physical servers to handle OS conflicts.

Evolve Your Environment Without Physical Constraints

Altering and scaling your Managed Private Cloud as your business and hosting needs evolve is easier, faster and less risky with virtual machines.

An Added Level of Availability and IT Continuity

Built-in VMware features – like Vmotion for clean migration, Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) for backup/recovery and snapshots for cloning machines – mistakes and issues don’t have to have painful implications for uptime and performance.

Certified VMware Experts At Every Turn

Starting with the design and deployment  to the daily management and monitory of your Managed Private Cloud, PEER 1 has the experts to get your environment running smoothly.

Monitoring and Management of Virtual Machines and Physical Devices

Our support team regularly monitors and manages your virtual machines and physical servers, while our FirstCall Support™ is there whenever you need it.

Freedom to Self-Manage and Monitor Your Virtual Machines

Through the vSphere client you gain unprecedented insight into your virtual data centre and manage your virtual environment as you see fit.

• Provision your virtual machines fast, and turn them on and off according to your needs
• Develop and test new configurations without adding costly hardware