Q_VMware Cloud Services - vCloud Air DRaaS
A Vmware based cloud service for Disaster Recovery. Powered by OVH, also available via alternate vCloud Air facilities.
Features
- Allows VMs in vSphere to be easily configured for DRaaS
- Removes traditional dependencies on underlying infrastructure hardware or DC mirroring
- Additional cloud Hosting_&_Support services migrate, onboard, manage, exit and hybrid.
- QAssociates can provide SC_DV cleared personnel to support onboarding
Benefits
- Protect up to 500 VMs per subscription
- Test various failover scenarios as often as necessary
- Additional Cloud Support & Hosting Services Offers Single Supplier Simplicity_&_Support
- Q Associates security cleared personnel can assist onboarding
Pricing
£521 a unit a month
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 10
Service ID
9 0 7 8 9 6 3 3 0 6 3 2 7 1 2
Contact
Q Associates Limited
Adam Freeman
Telephone: 01635 248181
Email: tenders@qassociates.co.uk
Service scope
- Service constraints
- VCloud Air is vSphere based. If it will run in vSphere it will run in vCloud air. But, Customers have different requirements. VMware suggests reading the publicly available service description to verify that the service meets the customer's requirements
- System requirements
- Standard and updated Web Browser.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Critical 30 minutes or less, Major 4 business hours, Minor 8 business hours, Cosmetic 12 business hours
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.0 AA or EN 301 549
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.0 AA or EN 301 549 9: Web
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/a
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Q Associates are able to provide additional pro-active services to support your Vmware environment that minimises issues and problems as a result of ensuring patch updates are regularly applied, performance challenges are identified sooner and general day to day maintenance related activities are well understood. this service, at an extra cost is part of our active managed support services over and above the break fix support provided by the vendrors.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Vmware provide an extensive documentation library, web portal and video library to assist clients in the use, administration and operation of their solutions. This can be supplemented by formal training classes with or without certification on completion. Q Associates are also able to provide bespoke onsite knowledge discovery and transfer in topics that are more focussed on the clients particular areas of interest or gaps in understanding of the cloud deployment/solution.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- End-of-contract data extraction
- They can utilize Vmware tools to move their workloads/VMs out of vCloud Air.
- End-of-contract process
- Customers will be notified well in advanced of contract end, if customer wishes to renew they can be contacted by a Sales Rep or if they wish to terminate, they can utilize the same tools used to move Data on to vCA to move off.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
- N/a
- Web interface accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.0 AA or EN 301 549
- Web interface accessibility testing
- N/a
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- VCloud API with vCloud Air Extensions for developers who create RESTful clients for vCloud Air
- API automation tools
-
- Ansible
- Chef
- OpenStack
- SaltStack
- Terraform
- Puppet
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
-
- HTML
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
-
- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- MacOS
- Using the command line interface
- Customers would have access to all published and documented APIs through a command prompt.
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
- Manual
- Independence of resources
- In a Multi-tenant environment there is shared server infrastructure and a possibility of resource contention.
- Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
- Other
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
-
- CPU
- Disk
- Memory
- Reporting types
- API access
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- VMware
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
- Other encryption, assured by Service provider assertion
- Data sanitisation process
- No
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
- VCloud Air can provide VM level backups.
- Backup controls
- VCloud Air can provide VM level backups.
- Datacentre setup
- Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
- Scheduling backups
- Users schedule backups through a web interface
- Backup recovery
-
- Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
- Users contact the support team
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Data protection within supplier network
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
- It is the customers responsibility to make sure their desired security level is met. VPN, direct connect circuits are available, as well as potentially some add on NSX security features.
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- 99.95%, assured by Service provider assertion
- Approach to resilience
- VMware uses well-established data center providers to host their workloads. Each data center is certified as a Tier 3 facility or higher. The providers are reviewed by independent third party auditors to meet physical security requirements for ISO/IEC 27001 certification, SOC 1 Type 2/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 and SOC 2 Type 2. Full AT101 reports outlining these specifications are available under NDA on request.
- Outage reporting
- Customers will be notified via Email of any service outages.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
- 2-factor authentication
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
-
VMware manages role-based access to resources for the vCloud Air service.
Administrators add new users in vCloud Air and assign one or more roles. A user in vCloud Air can either have administrator privileges or end-user privileges, but not both. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Username or password
- Other
- Devices users manage the service through
- Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- N/a
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- N/a
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/a
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- SOC 1 (SSAE16/ISAE 3402)
- HIPAA SOC 2 & 3
- Cloud Security Alliance
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
-
VMware security policies are documented and available to employees on an internal
web site. Policies and procedures are reviewed annually and updated as needed, and retained for a minimum of six years from the date of creation.
VMware utilizes a standard operating procedure repository to store an extensive set of documented procedures. Detailed procedures are defined for the following categories of functions: information security, physical security, network availability, HR, communications, risk/issues, and service level customer service.
On an annual basis, vCloud Air is audited by third-party auditors for ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, and HIPAA. Policy adherence is included as a part of these third-party audits.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
-
Changes to systems and infrastructure follow a standardized change management methodology. Changes are categorized according to internal and external priorities.
Key stakeholders perform an impact assessment that catalogs the level of effort needed to complete requested changes and functionality.
Documented standard build procedures are also in place to guide information technology management personnel with the installation and maintenance of production equipment. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- Cloud Air's management layer system security patches are evaluated upon release. The vCloud Air patch timeframes are in-line with industry standards. Patches are reviewed and tested prior to production deployment. Patches for remediation of critical vulnerabilities are applied within 30 days, with additional mitigation as necessary.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
-
VMware has a Security Operations Center and Network Operations Center that are staffed 24x7 and alerted on security anomalies in the
vCloud Air environment. This responsibility to detect intrusions ends at any point where customers have control, permission, or access to modify any aspect of the service offering. The customer is responsible for the security of the networks over which they have administrative level control. VMware recommends standard best practices for customers securing their environments including, but not limited to the following:
• Maintaining effective firewall rules
• Exposing communication ports that are only necessary to conduct business - Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
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The incident response process complies with industry standards for legally admissible chain-of-custody and forensic-data-collection processes and controls. Response standards, procedures, methods implemented based on the severity level of an incident.
If VMware determines that unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of customer content, VMware will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify customers, taking into account any applicable law, regulations, or governmental request.
VMware will notify customers of suspected breach of vCloud Air infrastructure if breach occurred on a segment of the platform consumed by customer, or in event of Denial of Service attacks. VMware doesn't monitor guest workloads breaches.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- Yes
- Who implements virtualisation
- Supplier
- Virtualisation technologies used
- VMware
- How shared infrastructure is kept separate
- N/a
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
Pricing
- Price
- £521 a unit a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- No
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
email the supplier at tenders@qassociates.co.uk.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.