Last updated: August 31, 2015
This Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) is subject to the terms of the applicable Terms of Service for the VMware vCloud Air Service Offerings listed below. Capitalized terms not defined in this SLA will have the meanings specified in the Terms of Service. We reserve the right to change the terms of this SLA in accordance with the Terms of Service for the Service Offering. Prior versions of this SLA are available at https://www.vmware.com/support/vcloud-air/sla_history.html.
VMware will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that each class of service purchased for an identified user of an instance of a Service Offering (“you” or “Customer”) is “Available” during a given calendar month equal to the “Availability Commitment” provided in the table below.
Class of Service | Availability Commitment |
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Dedicated Cloud | 99.99% |
Virtual Private Cloud | 99.95% |
Data Protection | 99.95% |
Disaster Recovery | 99.95% |
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand | 99.95% |
Object Storage powered by Google Cloud Platform (Standard) | 99.9% |
Object Storage powered by Google Cloud Platform (Durable Reduced Availability) | 99.0% |
Object Storage powered by Google Cloud Platform (Nearline Storage) | 99.0% |
If the Availability of a class of service that you purchase is less than the associated Availability Commitment, then you may request Service Credits for that affected class of service. Availability in a given month is calculated according to the following formula:
“Availability” = ((total minutes in a calendar month – total minutes Unavailable) / total minutes in a calendar month) x 100
Unavailability and SLA Events
A class of service will be considered “Unavailable,” subject to the Service Level Agreement Limitations set forth below, if VMware’s monitoring tools determine one of the following events has occurred (“SLA Event”). The total minutes that a class of service is Unavailable for a particular SLA Event is measured from the time that VMware validates the SLA Event has occurred, as defined below, until the time that VMware resolves the SLA Event such that the Service Offering is Available to you. If two or more SLA Event occurs simultaneously, the SLA Event with the longest duration will be used to determine the total minutes Unavailable.
Service Level Agreement Limitations
The following will be excluded from any time-based calculations related to a class of service being Unavailable: (i) scheduled maintenance windows where you have been notified at least 24 hours in advance, (ii) recurring or zero impact maintenance windows that are made generally available to all customers, (iii) your misuse of a particular class of service, (iv) force majeure events, denial of service attacks, virus or hacking attacks for which there is no commercially reasonable, known solution, or any other events that are not within our direct control or that could not have been avoided with commercially reasonable care, (v) packet loss, network or internet problems beyond VMware’s border router supporting our public internet connectivity, or (vi) bugs in code, hardware, or services for which there is no commercially reasonable, known fix (even if there is a known workaround).
You will not be eligible to receive a Service Credit if: (i) your service account has any payments for the Service Offering delinquent, (ii) you are in violation of Section 3 of the Terms of Service during the time of the SLA Event, or (iii) the SLA Event was due to your failure to meet your security responsibilities as set forth in the Terms of Service.
VMware’s monitoring tools, data and records will be the sole source of information used to track and validate Availability. Upon request, VMware will provide to you, within 45 days after a confirmed SLA Event (but no more than once per calendar year), a copy of the Availability report that VMware makes generally available to customers.
Service Level Agreement Claims
In order to request any Service Credit, you must file a support request at https://my.vmware.com within sixty (60) days of the suspected SLA Event. VMware will review the request and issue a Service Credit when VMware validates the SLA Event based on VMware’s data and records.
Service Credits will be issued to the person or entity that VMware invoices for the applicable instance of the Service Offering, as a separate credit memo that can be applied towards a future invoice for that Service Offering instance. If your subscription term for the Service Offering expires or is terminated prior to the issuance of a Service Credit, the Service Credit will become void as of the date of the expiration or termination.
The Service Credits specified in this SLA are your sole and exclusive remedies for any SLA Events occurring during your subscription term for the Service Offering or for any other claim in connection with this SLA.