Virtual Machines as a Service
Self-service virtual machines for your tenants — provisioned from the portal, metered per resource, and billed back automatically.
VMaaS turns your virtualisation infrastructure into a product. Tenants request a VM from the catalog, choose a size, attach storage and networking, and have it running in minutes — without raising a ticket or touching the hypervisor. Every VM and everything attached to it is isolated per tenant, metered, and billed back through Cloud Orchestrator.
What you get
Browser-based VNC and serial console. No SSH keys or jump host required to reach a VM.
Attach, expand, and detach persistent volumes. Each volume is isolated to the tenant.
Point-in-time snapshots of a running VM. Restore or clone on demand.
Scheduled backups with configurable retention. Restore to a known-good point.
Attach a managed load balancer to distribute traffic across VMs.
Virtual NICs on isolated tenant networks. No exposure to other tenants.
Change vCPU and memory on an existing VM without rebuilding it.
Provision from a curated set of OS images, or bring your own.
Sizes
| Flavor | vCPU | Memory | Root disk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB |
| Medium | 4 | 8 GB | 80 GB |
| Large | 8 | 16 GB | 160 GB |
| X-Large | 16 | 32 GB | 320 GB |
Flavors are fully configurable. Define your own sizes, set per-tenant quotas, and restrict which flavors each tier can use.
Service tiers
Tiers are example service levels you define for your tenants. Configure as many as you need — what is shown here is a sensible starting point.
| Capability | Standard | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Web console access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block storage | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshots | Manual | Scheduled |
| Backup | Daily | Hourly |
| Load balancer | — | ✓ |
| Availability SLA | 99.5% | 99.95% |
| Support response | Next business day | 1 hour |
Tiers are operator-defined. Map them to your own pricing, quotas, and target tenants.
Support & metering
VMaaS is metered in MRUs — one per manageable item the tenant can configure from the portal. The VM and each attachment count separately.
More from the catalog
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