Hosted Private Cloud
Hosted Private Cloud
This domain covers OVHcloud's VMware-based private cloud: the SDDC model, its components, what the customer administers, and which options are ordered separately.
The platform
Hosted Private Cloud provides dedicated VMware hosts managed by OVHcloud, with vSphere hypervisors, vCenter for management, NSX for network virtualisation and vSAN for hyperconverged storage (or dedicated datastores depending on the offer). OVHcloud operates the hosts, hypervisor and physical network; you operate vCenter objects, virtual machines, guest OS and applications.
Options and add-ons
- NSX edges for routing, NAT, firewall and load balancing inside the private cloud.
- vSAN datastore expansion for capacity and resilience.
- Veeam backup for VM-level protection - not included by default.
- DRaaS for replication and orchestrated recovery to a secondary site.
- Hybrid Cloud / vRack to connect the private cloud to dedicated servers or Public Cloud privately.
Worked example
A customer runs three hosts and needs network segmentation, capacity that survives a host loss, and a recovery site with a recovery-point objective of minutes. The answer is an SDDC with vSAN for host-loss tolerance, NSX for the segmented networks, and DRaaS for replication. Reasoning: host-loss tolerance → vSAN; segmentation and routing → NSX; low RPO to a second site → DRaaS. Plain datastores without replication would not meet the loss requirement.
Traps
Backup is an option, not a default. NSX networking is internal to the private cloud; reaching other OVHcloud services privately still needs vRack. vCenter permissions differ from OVHcloud account roles. A single host has no host-level redundancy regardless of storage policy.