Virtual Datacentre Hosting

At Extraordinary Managed Services, we have been a trusted professional hosting provider since 2001, offering round-the-clock support and full accountability for your infrastructure needs. Our virtual datacentre services are powered by VMware virtualisation technologies, ensuring a robust and scalable environment for your applications.

Why Choose Our Virtual Datacentre Hosting Service?

  • High-End VMware Infrastructure: We provide high-end servers and complete control from hardware to virtualisation. Our VMware Infrastructure implements VMware ESXi, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX and VMWare Aria.

  • Own Network: All our hosting locations connect to multiple tier-1 internet carriers. We operate our own BGP AS with our IP ranges.

  • Locations: Our datacentres are strategically located in London and Edinburgh, offering geographical redundancy. Fibre wavelengths provide connectivity between our datacentres.

  • Operating Systems: We offer a choice of popular enterprise operating systems, allowing you to select the one that best suits your requirements. Microsoft and RedHat operating systems are available for licensing on a monthly rental basis.

  • Software licence rental: We offer a choice of monthly software licence rental. Amongst others, licences are available to rent from Microsoft, VMWare, RedHat and Citrix. 

Virtual Datacentre Hosting Services

Virtual Machines

Our virtual machines are hosted in our datacentre locations in London City and Edinburgh. Resources are allocated based on your chosen instance type, defined by virtual CPUs and memory, ensuring optimal performance for your applications.

Virtual Machine Instance Types

Virtual machines are available in three instance series, each optimised for different workloads:

  • General Purpose: Balanced vCPU and memory allocations for versatile workloads.

    • XD2as: 2 vCPUs, 8 GB memory

    • XD4as: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory

    • XD8as: 8 vCPUs, 32 GB memory

    • XD16as: 16 vCPUs, 64 GB memory

    • XD32as: 32 vCPUs, 128 GB memory

  • Compute Intensive: Higher vCPU-to-memory ratio for compute-heavy tasks.

    • XC4as: 4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory

    • XC8as: 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory

    • XC16as: 16 vCPUs, 32 GB memory

    • XC32as: 32 vCPUs, 64 GB memory

  • Memory Intensive: Higher memory allocations for memory-demanding applications.

    • XE2as: 2 vCPUs, 16 GB memory

    • XE4as: 4 vCPUs, 32 GB memory

    • XE8as: 8 vCPUs, 64 GB memory

    • XE16as: 16 vCPUs, 128 GB memory

    • XE20as: 20 vCPUs, 160 GB memory

    • XE32as: 32 vCPUs, 256 GB memory

Managed Disks

We offer managed disks with allocated space and IOPS, presented as directly attached storage volumes to your virtual machines. Our storage solutions are designed with high availability in mind, featuring redundancy to keep your data secure.

Managed Disk Specifications

Managed disks are available in multiple configurations to suit your storage needs:

  • P6-R: 64 GB, 300 provisioned IOPS, 4375 maximum IOPS at 4K blocks

  • P10-R: 128 GB, 625 provisioned IOPS, 4375 maximum IOPS at 4K blocks

  • P15-R: 256 GB, 1375 provisioned IOPS, 4375 maximum IOPS at 4K blocks

  • P20-R: 512 GB, 2875 provisioned IOPS, 4375 maximum IOPS at 4K blocks

  • P30-R: 1 TiB, 6250 provisioned IOPS, 4375 maximum IOPS at 4K blocks

Backups and Replication

Data protection is paramount. We provide mandatory daily backups for all virtual machines, using efficient snapshot technology. Additionally, we offer replication services, creating restore points in our secondary datacentre to ensure business continuity.

Managed Database Services

For clients requiring robust database solutions, we offer managed database services. This service includes a cluster of physical or virtual servers with databases asynchronously replicated between our datacentres. Our team handles defined management tasks, from backups to failover testing, ensuring your databases are always available and secure.

Database Backups

We perform nightly backups of your databases, capturing transaction logs periodically. Backups are stored for a customisable period, and we support restoration and testing to ensure data integrity.

Remote Access Solutions

If your business utilises virtual desktop infrastructure, we offer monthly rental of remote access licences. Our team manages the licensing process, whilst you handle the installation and maintenance.

Inter-site IP Address Failover

Our datacentre locations offer high availability IP addresses that can be used in either location. This is an add-on service for customer hosting that requires geographical redundancy.

Security Scans

We conduct monthly security scans on selected endpoints to help you maintain a secure environment. Additional scans are available upon request to address specific security concerns.

Managed Firewalling

We offer Managed Firewalling as an additional service to our hosting packages. Managed Firewalls are rented and supported by us. We manage firmware updates, monitor hardware health, and handle replacements if needed. Customers are responsible for VPN client deployment and maintaining their firewall rule sets.

Contact Us

Please email sales@extramsp.com to discuss your Virtual Datacentre or Virtual Machine hosting requirements.