Ultra-V virtualisation platform

NetBenefit’s Ultra-V virtualisation platform offers flexibility, security and performance.  And above all 100% guaranteed availability.

The Ultra-V platform allows you to benefit from a highly available and resilient virtualised hosting platform whilst at the same time offering a choice of memory, processor and hard drive.  Whether you are looking for a single cost effective VPS or multiple virtual private servers, our team of expert hosting consultants can advise on the best virtualised environment for your business requirements, now and in the future.

The platform is built upon Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology, 11th-generation Dell servers, Nexsan storage devices and market leading FortiGate firewalls. Managed by a central management centre, the platform has been designed to provide an automated failover service providing you with continuous peace of mind whilst also delivering the ultimate in website performance.

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How does Ultra-V work?

The Ultra-V platform consists of multiple physical servers clustered around high availability storage and protected by robust enterprise firewalls.  The virtual private servers, or guests, are then located on each of those hardware nodes.

The virtualisation platform has been constructed to support hundreds of virtual private servers, all of which have the option of expandable memory, hard drive, bandwidth and backup.

Microsoft’s Hyper-V live migration (central management centre) allows NetBenefit to transparently move running virtual private servers from one node of the cluster to another without a dropped network connection or downtime. The failover clustering is enabled via shared storage with fibre channel connections.  Live migration makes it possible to keep our virtual private servers online, even during maintenance, ensuring the guaranteed availability of your online business.

In the unlikely event of hardware failure, there are enough spare resources on the remaining hosts (physical servers) to take the load providing you with complete confidence in your choice of hosting provider.

Is the Ultra-V platform secure?

The platform has been architected with security at its heart. All of these features provide enhanced security for your VPS: 

• The firewalls ensure that each virtual private server runs in its own private VLAN which means that your VPS is isolated from all of the other virtual servers on the platform 
• Built using Microsoft Windows 2008 server core, the blade servers have no Windows shell and very limited GUI functionality reducing the area susceptible to attack increasing the security and availability of the platform
• The hypervisor software layer runs on an independent private network to isolate it completely from the virtual servers, which have their own NICs and switches again increasing the security and availability of virtual private servers and platform alike