Private Cloud Solutions

For DevOps, Saas and Enterprise

Mac Pro Private Clouds running VMware are managed by vCenter with SAN Storage and accessible via the vSphere client.

A Private Cloud is your own virtual data center, running VMware on dedicated Mac hardware, that lets you quickly deploy virtual servers and services, on demand.

Utilize state-of-the-art security and storage systems
Maximize availability with redundancy and geographical diversity
Reduce costs thru consolidation and fixed pricing
Streamline development, testing, and production

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Interested in continuous integration and continuous delivery solutions?

Discover CI/CD on Mac hardware

Diverse OS Support

Deploy VM’s running any OS including popular OS X, Windows, and Linux distributions.
First-in-class private cloud solutions built on Apple hardware.
Proven technical partnerships with VMware, EMC, NetApp and Cisco.

Infinite Scalability

Expand clusters, SAN storage, and other infrastructure rapidly.
Migrate virtual machines and storage without downtime.
Grow your environment as your business grows with fixed costs.

Rapid Deployment

Deploy virtual machines instantly or automatically via API through VMware.
Clone virtual machines via templates or snapshots for rapid app testing.
Integrate VMware with dedicated SAN storage via VAAI.

Agility & Flexibility

Resize, move, create, or destroy virtual machines anytime, in real-time.
Logically separate virtual machines and environments with advanced networking features.
Maintain redundancy with private cloud replication across geographically-diverse locations.

Dedicated Infrastructure

100% dedicated Mac infrastructure. Never shared.
Maximize security via centralized vLAN, Firewall and DDoS protection.
Leave bad neighbors on public clouds behind with dedicated resources.

Platform Consolidation

Combine development, testing, and production environments.
Migrate spread-out shared, public cloud infrastructure into a dedicated private cloud.
Consolidate and reduce overall infrastructure while driving resource efficiency.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Auto-failover virtual machines in production clusters instantly.
Replicate virtual machines and SAN storage across geographically-diverse locations.
Restore virtual machines quickly with point-in-time snapshots.

Expert Assistance

24/7 U.S.-based support via chat, phone, and ticketing.
Gain free expert advice, engineering, and solution consulting.
VMware platform training, strategy, and roadmap planning.

Las Vegas Data Center Coming Soon

We recently acquired Macminicolo (read about it here) and that means more locations for hosting Mac servers around the world. While we continue bringing Macminicolo on board, you can't order servers there, yet. What you can do is head to our data centers page to learn more or head to Macminicolo directly. We'll be sure to keep you updated as we make more changes and Las Vegas becomes available for Mac hosting at MacStadium.

Grow your Business on the Fly

Increase productivity with a scalable cluster of always-available Mac servers customized to your needs and supported by first-class engineers.

Launching your Cloud

Personalized solutions for success

Understand

Document current state
Define future success criteria
Gather performance metrics
Perform technical inventory

Architect

Discuss strategy and roadmap
Create initial solution Design and Plan
Review connectivity, security and DR
Finalize platform services agreement

Deploy

Deploy custom infrastructure
Test and QA platform solutions
Onboard with Engineering specialist
Assist with Migration as necessary

Enable

Platform documentation turnover
Solution walk-through and training
Configure account specifics & alerting
Review Support and Escalation paths

VMware Enterprise Plus Licensing Included

All environments have access to the following VMware features

VMware High Availability

High Availability (HA) offers protection against hardware failure and operating system malfunction. The service monitors your virtual machines at all times. If one goes down, VMware HA will automatically restart it on another node in your private cloud. Your VM will be available again within minutes, without any human intervention.

VMware vMotion

With vMotion, you can move virtual machines running on one host to another in just one click. There’s no service downtime as your VM’s active memory and operating status are transferred immediately. End-users are not affected (unlike typical scheduled maintance on bare metal hardware), as the network is also virtualized and the VMs retain their network identity and connections. High availability (HA) offers protection against hardware failure and operating system malfunction. The service monitors your virtual machines at all times. If one goes down, VMware HA will automatically restart it on another node in your private cloud.

VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch

Centralize the provisioning, administration and monitoring of your virtual machines, using a network cluster combination. The vNetwork Distributed Switch ensures quality of service (QoS) to different VMware network features by allocating the maximum bandwidth wherever needed.

VMware Thin Provisioning

Thin provisioning decreases your storage requirements through dynamic allocation of disk space. Your virtual machines will have the right amount of disk space without their performance being affected. Your investment and operating costs will also be reduced due to lower storage requirements.

VMware Network & Storage I/O Control

With Network and storage I/O control, configure rules and strategies for every virtual machine and application to enable permanent availability. As soon as congestion is detected, resources are automatically allocated to high priority applications.

VMware Site Recovery Manager

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a disaster recovery solution that provides automated orchestration and non-disruptive testing of centralized recovery plans for all virtualized applications. MacStadium offers geographically-diverse data centers for site-to-site replication of private cloud environments.

VMware DRS

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) optimizes your private cloud infrastructure without any human intervention required. Whatever activity peaks you may have, this feature will spread the load of your virtual machines evenly across the nodes in your private cloud. This enables you to easily deploy multiple virtual machines while keeping costs down.

VMware Storage vMotion

Move your virtual machine disk files between various storage spaces without interruption. vMotion guarantees the integrity of these operations so the service remains available during scheduled storage maintenance. This feature is also very useful for migrating to new filers.

VMware Hot Add

Usage won’t put a strain on your projects any more thanks to Hot Add. This feature enables you to increase processor and memory resources allocated to your virtual machines. The operation is carried out instantly—without service disruption.

Creating VMs from the marketplace or OVF

Compress and share virtual machines using the VMware Marketplace exchange platform. Find hundreds of preconfigured VMs ready to be deployed. VMware .ovf files can be executed immediately for easy deployment in development and testing environments.

VMware vSphere Replication

Continually replicate running virtual machines to geographically-diverse locations. Replication creates a copy of a virtual machines that can be stored locally within a cluster or at another site, providing a data source to rapidly restore a virtual machine within minutes.

VMware vSphere API for automation

The vSphere API is exposed as a Web service, running on VMware vSphere server systems. The API provides access to the vSphere management components—the managed objects that you can use to manage, monitor, and control life-cycle operations of virtual machines and other virtual infrastructure components (data centers, datastores, networks, and so on).

BYOL (Bring Your Own Licensing)

We won’t force you to use the VMware licensing we provide. Many customers with existing VMware environments (internally or at other hosting providers) integrate their MacStadium private clouds into their existing environments and VMware licensing. You’re free to request the same at configuration of your private cloud.