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UF Hosting

Who can request

Local IT Units are able to establish new UF Hosting billing accounts on behalf of users. Users can not establish UF Hosting billing accounts directly. If you are not part of a local IT unit you can use the link below to view local IT groups that are known to UFIT and their contact information.

https://nsot.it.ufl.edu/contacts_by_group

Request Process

Billing ID

All UF Hosting resources must be associated with one UFIT Billing ID. A billing ID is tied to a funding source that is used to pay for services.

Upon logging into UF Hosting, request the "Create Billing ID" catalog item to request a new UFIT Billing ID. This will create an IT ticket to the UFIT Business Center on behalf of the requesting user. The BC will work with the fiscal contact listed in the form to establish a billing account. Once this is complete the BC will resolve the IT ticket with the new UFIT billing ID in the resolution comments.

You will need to know your departments fiscal contact information to complete the Crate Billing ID form.

Project

A project only required for Virtual Machine and File Hosting. All other services such as Web, Database, AI, and TSM do not require a project.

A project must be associated with one UFIT Billing ID and it must be provided when creating the project. Multiple projects can be associated with a UFIT Billing ID.

Upon logging into UF Hosting, request the "Create Project" catalog item to create a new project.

  • Any existing UFIT billing ID can be associated with the project.
  • Active Directory groups can be added as project members to allow users to request and manage resources within the project.

Navigate to UF Hosting

  1. In any browser, navigate to https://it.ufl.edu/hosting and click the "Login" link
  2. Enter your GLID and click "Next"
  3. Log in with Shibboleth

Browsing the Catalog

  1. Upon logging in you will be presented with the Consumption page in the Service Broker
    1. In the left column make sure "Catalog" is selected
  2. In the Catalog page click the “REQUEST” link at the bottom of the catalog item you want to request

Requesting a Catalog Item

  1. In the request form select the Project you want to deploy the resource into. This determines which project has access to the resource and what UFIT Billing ID is billed for the resource
  2. Some forms have multiple pages which are sown at the top of the form section
  3. Once the form is completed click “SUBMIT” and the request will be submitted

Viewing Deployments

All provisioned resources are contained within a "Deployment" object. A deployment object will always only contain a single provisioned resource.

Deployments will be named the same as the requested resource.

Clicking on a deployment will show its current state on the "Topology" tab and any historical requests on the "History" tab.

The provisioned resource is viewable in the bottom right of the Topology tab.

Running Actions on a Provisioned Resource

To request actions on a provisioned resource click the "Actions" link on the provisioned resource in the bottom right of the deployment topology page.

Destroying Items

To delete a provisioned resource you request the "Delete" action on the Deployment. This will delete the Deployment and the provisioned resource.

You are able to run actions against your project provisioned resource as described in the "How do I navigate and use the UF Hosting Portal?" FAQ item.

You can modify the contact email and project membership.