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1.1.1 Differences between Cloud Servers and Virtual Private Cloud

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The chart below shows the main differences between the Cloud Server (VPS and PRO) services and the Virtual Private Cloud service.

	Cloud VPS	Cloud PRO	Virtual Private Cloud
Minimum duration	Monthly per 30 days	Hourly	Monthly per 30 days
Pricing plan	Monthly per 30 days	Hourly / per 30 days / yearly	Monthly per 30 days
ACTIVATION
Provisioning	Automatic	Automatic	Manual within 24 hours
De-Provisioning	Automatic	Automatic	Manual within 24 hours
PERFORMANCES
Guaranteed performances
SLA	99.80% 99,90% OpenStack	99.95%	99.95%
COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES
Max vCPU per VM	4	16	32 (100% guaranteed)
Max RAM per VM	8 GB	64 GB	256 GB
Max Disc Space per VM	160 GB	500 GB x 4HD	Unlimited
Type of Storage	SSD	NVMe or SAN+SSD	SSD+SAS or NVMe
Custom Storage
Redundant hardware
Replicated storage		In the same DC	In a secondary DC^[1]
Disk Import/Export
Archive
Choice of vCPU/RAM/HD	Default amount	Free choice	Free choice^[2]
UPGRADE/DOWNGRADE
Upgrade
Downgrade
HYPERVISOR/TEMPLATE/OS
OpenStack
Hyper-V
VMware Enterprise
VMware Enterprise Plus
Templates/OS	51	54	Dedicated
Personal Templates
LICENCES
Datacenter Extension
Included licenses	Windows Datacenter	Windows Datacenter
Managed licenses	MS SQL Web/Standard	MS SQL Web/Standard	All
Plesk Licenses	Available for purchase	Available for purchase	Available for purchase
NETWORK RESOURCES
Included Public IPs	1 not editable	1	4
Additional Public IPs		Up to 5	On request
Network adapters	1	3	10
Private network
Bandwidth (In/Out)	Limited (monthly)	Unlimited	Unlimited
Included Firewall
Load Balancer
Unified Storage
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
Custom products		Only on Hybrid	On Hybrid and Native
Uptime Monitoring	Available for purchase	1 free check	Available for purchase
Usage Monitoring			Available for purchase
SnapShots
Scheduled Tasks^[3]
Business Continuity			^[4]
Disaster Recovery	Self or assisted implementation	Self or assisted implementation	DRaaS - Zerto DRaaS - Veeam Cloud Connect^[5] DRaaS - VMware vCAv
Bare Metal Backup	Self or assisted implementation	Self or assisted implementation	BaaS - Veeam
COSTUMER CARE
Consultation requests
Free Support service
1. Replication on a secondary Data Center is only included if the Virtual Private Cloud is provided from Data Centers IT1 and IT3. 2. Minimum vCPU/RAM ratio of 1/1.5 3. "Edit computational resources" not available for Cloud VPS. 4. With replication between 2 or more different Data Centers. 5. Veeam Cloud Connect Replication can only be used to replicate from an on-premises infrastructure (or Hosted Private Cloud) to a Virtual Private Cloud. Available on Data Centers IT1 and IT3

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