The server service Server Hosting (provision of virtual machines) is designed for areas (e.g. faculties, institutes, chairs, facilities, committees, university groups) of the University of Paderborn and includes the provision of servers in the ESX cluster on Debian Linux or Windows 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016 including data backup.

Prerequisites are agreements regarding backup volumes, operating system, processor power, main memory, disk space, availability levels and load balancing.