boxxe VMware Live Recovery
VMware Live Recovery offers VMware Live Cyber/Site Recovery. VLCR is an on-demand solution that provides cyber and data resiliency to VMware virtual machines by replicating and recovering them quickly to a target cloud in case of a natural disaster, ransomware attack, or other unplanned disruption of your production datacenter.
Features
- Next-gen antivirus and behavioral analysis to contain ransomware attacks
- Quarantined recovery environment with network isolation to prevent reinfectio
- vSphere virtual machine replication as low as 15 minute RPO
- Variable retention schedule going back days/weeks/months/years
- Granular file/folder/VM level recovery
- DR test, failover and delta-based failback with full-featured DR orchestration
- Cloud-based Disaster Recovery portal
- Zero-touch day-2 lifecycle operations (upgrades, patching, etc.)
- Instant recovery using Live Mount capability
Benefits
- Quickly recover workloads from disasters, ransomware attacks, and other outages
- Perform behavioral analysis in an isolated environment to prevent reinfection
- Enable uniform processes to administer private and public cloud environments
- Simplify workflows for testing DR plans and foroutage preparedness
- Zero-in on the right point-in-time from which to recover
- Spin-up a recovery SDDC only during testing or failover
- Easy VM or file-level operational restores
- Automated compliance checks every 30minutes
- Easy VM or file-level operational restores
Pricing
£0 to £0 a unit a month
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
5 5 4 7 5 6 1 1 1 6 0 4 7 3 7
Contact
BOXXE LIMITED
Gemma Franklin
Telephone: 07704551950
Email: tenders@boxxe.com
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No
- System requirements
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- VMware vCenter must be 7 U2 or later
- VMware vCenter must be 7.0U3 or later for high-frequency snapshots
- At least 8GHz reserved vCPU capacity in production site
- At least 12GiB of vRAM reserved in production site
- At least 100GiB of virtual disk space in production site
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
-
VMware Cloud Service Support Policies are published:
https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/saas-support.html Critical
(SaaS Severity 1) 30 minutes or less: 24x7 Major (SaaS Severity 2) 4
business hours Minor (SaaS Severity 3) 8 business hours Cosmetic (SaaS
Severity 4) 12 business hours - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- No
- Support levels
-
VMware Live Recovery provides 24/7 production level support as
part of the service at no additional cost. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
-
We provide a range of resources to help to start using VMware Live Recovery. These include comprehensive documentation (in
multiple formats), introductory videos, hands-on labs, access to a large
ecosystem of partners and support from the customer success team and
account teams. Recommended starting point for all new users:
https://vmc.vmware.com/solutions/disaster-recovery - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
-
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
-
Replication of data to and from VMware Live Recovery is fully
managed by the customer. Documentation exists along with additional
tools and services to facilitate the replication, cloud failover, and failback
of data. VMware Live Recovery stores customers data in an
industry accepted virtual machine format and VMware vSphere natively
supports the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), making it simple to
download, clone, migrate, copy, port or transfer workloads between
environments. Users can restore data from all the VM snapshots stored in
the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery filesystem back to their production
site using the built-in failback workflow or individual VM restore capability. - End-of-contract process
- https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/agreements/vmware-cloud-services-guide.pdf . Please refer to thesection for VMware Live Recovery for all contract details.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
-
VMware Live Cyber Recovery has two web interfaces: Global DR Console and Orchestrator UI. The Global DR Console enables users to provision Orchestrators (also known as "Recovery Regions") and to create subscriptions.
The Orchestrator UI allows users to consume VMware Cloud DR and includes
several disaster recovery orchestrator capabilities to automate the disaster
recovery process. - Web interface accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Web interface accessibility testing
- The Broadcom Accessibility team has conducted testing on the product, evaluating its compliance with WCAG 2.1 level A and AA guidelines. The testing covered all product workflows, or user journeys, utilizing various mainstream accessibility-testing tools, including assistive technologies such as Voice Over on Mac and NVDA on Windows and other tools. We have individuals who use assistive technology conducting the testing.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- [Feature in Preview] Users can use public REST APIs to query some basic information about their DR plan configuration: get cloud file systems, get protected sites, get protection groups, get protection group snapshots, get protected VMs, and get recovery SDDCs.
- API automation tools
- Other
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
-
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- HTML
- Other
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
-
- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- Using the command line interface
- The VMware Live Cyber Recovery connector CLI* allows users to deploy and configure the connector on protected sites. Things users can do with the connector using the CLI: deploy the connector; configure the Connector; create a restricted vCenter user; register a restricted vCenter user; re-register a restricted vCenter user; run a connector connectivity check; run a connector performance check. *The Cyber Recovery connector is a stateless virtual appliance that enables replicating VM snapshot deltas from a protected site to the cloud filesystem, which are used for recovery operations.
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
-
- Automatic
- Manual
- Independence of resources
-
There is both capacity and network level isolation between
different customers' environments to prevent users and
customers from accessing resources not assigned to them. Each
customer's VMware Live Recovery deployment -
consisting of at least one Orchestrator component and one
Cloud File System component - resides in a completely separate
cloud account with its own dedicated compute, memory,
networking, and storage resources. This eliminates the potential
for other customers to affect their workloads. - Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
- Other
- Other usage reporting
- The service alerts users of reaching limits and provides suggestions via the CSP platform.
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
-
- Number of active instances
- Other
- Other metrics
-
- Logical storage capacity (in TiB) across all protected VMs
- Breakdown of storage capacity and VMs for each Protection Group
- Count of their total protected virtual machines
- Reporting types
-
- API access
- Real-time dashboards
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and 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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- 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
-
- Encryption of all physical media
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
-
Other data at rest protection approach
Backup data and DR configuration data encrypted at rest using an industry-standard AES-256 encryption algorithm - Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
-
- Files
- Virtual Machines
- Backup controls
- VMware Live Cyber Recovery enables virtual machine snapshots to be replicated to a datacenter location of the user's choosing. When setting up a DR plan, users can create protection groups, consisting of different virtual machines. Each protection group has its own policies for snapshots, which includes snapshot frequency schedule and retention. Virtual Machine disk images are backed up as part of each snapshot. Multiple protection groups can be a part of an entire DR plan. More information on configuring protection groups here:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Live-Recovery/services/vmware-live-cyber-recovery/GUID-5A3D6A65-EA38-4045-8BFA-556AFBAC9117.html
- 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
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- Private network or public sector network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
-
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
-
VMware will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure VMware Live Recovery is available 99.9% during a given billing month. If the Availability of the Service Offering is less than the Availability Commitment, then you may request an SLA Credit. Availability in a given billing
month is calculated according to the following formula: “Availability” = ([total minutes in a billing
month – total minutes Unavailable] / total minutes in a billing month) x 100 More information
about the SLA can be found at:
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/downloads/eula/vmwcloud-disaster-recovery-service-level-agreement.pdf - Approach to resilience
-
VMware has a Business Continuity (BC) Management Program describing how VMware will
respond to events that significantly disrupt our delivery of the Service Offering. Business
Continuity Plan. VMware has a Business Continuity Plan ("Plan") intended to identify what
preparations must be made in advance of a disruption, as well as the steps to be taken when an
event actually occurs. The Plan is reviewed periodically to determine which business processes
are most critical and what resources - people, equipment, records, computer systems and office
facilities - are required for operation. All documented plans follow an annual standard
maintenance and assessment schedule. Customer's cloud backups are persisted to durable
cloud object storage that is replicated to at least 3 separate AWS availability zones. VMware
Cloud Disaster Recovery Orchestrator and Cloud File System instances are stateless and
automatically restarted as new cloud compute instances within a short duration in case of any
disruption. - Outage reporting
- Email alerts
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
-
- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
-
Management interfaces implement role-based access controls and require
members to authenticate against the corporate identity provider. It is also
possible to configure access restrictions based on the originating IP
address. Additional security and authentication mechanisms including the
use of time-based credentials are used to secure and monitor access. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
-
- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
-
- Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
- Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
- 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
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Schellman
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 09/06/2021
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- 07/05/2021
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- N/A
- PCI certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
- Crowe LLP
- PCI DSS accreditation date
- 06/01/2022
- What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
- N/A
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
-
- SOC 2 Type 2
- SOC 3
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
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, 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, VMware Cloud DR is audited by
third-party auditors for ISO 27001, 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
-
The VMware Live Recovery team has a comprehensive
development lifecycle and and change management system in place.
Continuous reviews and testing occur on the software development
pipelines for individual components. Approvals for any changes related to
each new release are documented explicitly in JIRA tickets. VMware
generates builds from approved components and runs these through BITs
(Basic Integration Tests), PVTs (Product Validation Tests), and Feature
Stress Lite Tests. Additionally, we run performance tests, feature stress
tests, security scans, vulnerability tests and System Tests at scale for
every cycle before any build is rolled out to customer environments. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
-
VMware has comprehensive vulnerability management program in place
which includes regular internal (at least quarterly) and third-party
vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. The VMware Security
Response Center (VSRC) leads the analysis and remediation of service
security issues. VSRC receives reports directly and monitors the
ecosystem for relevant security issues and works with VMware R&D to
develop and resolve issues. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery has the
capability to rapidly patch vulnerabilities. Remediation efforts and
timelines are prioritized and applied using industry best practices. For
further details on the process and our commitment to customers, see the
VMware Security Response Policy
https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/security_response.html - 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 staffed 24x7 and alerted on
security anomalies in the VMware Live Recovery environment.
VMware Live Recovery has several intrusion
detection/prevention mechanisms in place and the service continuously
collects and monitors the environment logs which are correlated with both public and private threat feeds to spot suspicious and unusual activities.
The customer is responsible for the security of the environment over which they have administrative level control. Details on the shared responsibility model employed by VMware Live Recovery are available here:
https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmware-cloud-disaster-recoveryshared-responsibility-model - 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
-
The process complies with industry standards for legally admissible chainof-custody and forensic-data-collection management processes and
controls. Response standards, procedures, methods are implemented
based on the severity level. If VMware determines that unauthorized
access to/use/disclosure of customer content, VMware will use
commercially reasonable efforts to notify customers, taking into account
any applicable law, regulations, governmental request. VMware will also
notify customers of a suspected breach of the infrastructure if that breach
occurred on a segment of the platform consumed by a customer, or in the
event of Denial of Service attacks. VMware does not monitor guest
workloads for such breaches.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
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
-
There is both capacity and network level isolation between different
customers' environments to prevent users and customers from accessing resources not assigned to them. Each customer's VMware Live Recovery deployment - consisting of at least one Orchestrator component and one Cloud File System component - resides in a completely separate cloud account with its own dedicated compute, memory, networking, and storage resources. This eliminates the potential for other customers to
affect their workloads.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
- Description of energy efficient datacentres
-
VMware Live Recovery utilizes AWS datacenters and
information about AWS & Sustainability can be found here:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
boxxe is committed to supporting environmental protection and improvement and to delivering and influencing environmentally conscious solutions to address the critical issue of climate change, focusing on achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions and influencing all stakeholders towards environmental protection and improvement.
Our latest Carbon Reduction Plan, available on our website confirms we are carbon neutral across all sources of emissions through investing in the Carbon Exchange-Traded Commodity. We aim to reach Net Zero by 2050 at the latest through emissions reduction initiatives e.g. renewable electricity procurement and supplier engagement.
Environmental protection is embedded in everything boxxe does and offers and we are proud to have been named as a finalist in the Best Value Chain Initiative category at the CRN Sustainability in Tech Awards 2024.
We maintain an accredited ISO 14001 Environmental Management System covering the entire scope of our business, and our goal is to be recognized as the UK’s most sustainable IT reseller and service provider.
boxxe is committed to adopting, promoting, and implementing the principles of a Circular Economy and have developed a Circular Management Plan which articulates our strategy for waste minimisation and the enhancement of material reuse and recycling in our operations and the products we supply. This underscores our dedication to environmental stewardship, resource efficiency, and sustainable growth, driven by innovative and accountable resource and waste management practices.
We ensure that our supply chain is aware of and understand our environmental policies and we work with them to manage and continuously improve their environmental performance. We prioritise the purchase of recycled, recyclable, or re-furbished products and materials where these alternatives are available, economical, and suitable.
We conform to WEEE regulations and seek to sustainably reduce, reuse, and recycle, to ensure we and our customers minimise the impact of IT waste on the environment.Covid-19 recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed boxxe’s ways of working, leading us to implement a fully remote workforce to maintain customer service and operational functionality during the crisis. This transition enabled us to develop and implement a "Work from Anywhere in the UK" policy. By allowing our employees to work from any location, we have broadened our recruitment reach, enabling us to attract the best talent regardless of their geographic location. This approach has reduced barriers to inclusion, enhanced employee retention, and supported a healthier work-life balance. Additionally, remote recruitment strategies have allowed us to target candidates from areas particularly impacted by Covid-19, thereby positively contributing to their local economic recovery.
Recognising the significant skills shortages highlighted by the pandemic within the IT industry, we have taken proactive steps to retain and enhance our workforce's capabilities. We encourage continuous training and development in our employees' respective fields of expertise. Experienced staff and external specialists provide mentoring, offering a hands-on learning experience that ensures the effective application of newly acquired skills. Moreover, we are committed to inspiring the next generation by inviting local youth to experience the day-to-day life of our tech teams and organising regular hackathons and think tanks for soon-to-be graduates, providing them with career guidance.
Building on our pandemic experiences, we have developed a robust business continuity plan, ensuring that we are well-prepared to maintain uninterrupted service in the event of a similar crisis. It is worth noting that during the height of COVID-19, our strategies allowed us to maintain seamless business operations, underscoring our resilience and adaptability in challenging times. This foundation not only prepares us for future challenges but also reinforces our commitment to innovation and excellence in a post-pandemic world.Tackling economic inequality
boxxe is committed to addressing disparities in employment, skills, and pay within our workforce and across our supply chain. Our ‘Work from Anywhere in the UK’ policy allows us to recruit the best talent regardless of their geographic location, removing barriers to inclusion, improving retention, and promoting a healthier work-life balance. By enabling staff to work remotely, we foster collaboration and create more equitable opportunities for all potential and current boxxe employees.
To address the skills shortages in tech industry, we invest in our staff’s continuous in-work skills development, facilitating career progression and helping retain talent. All staff have access to on-demand learning opportunities, available irrespective of role or seniority. We provide funding for a variety of training programs: specialist vendor/industry accreditations and professional qualifications. Experienced staff provide mentoring, ensuring that newly acquired skills are applied effectively.
We are dedicated to maintaining a robust and diverse supply chain by actively supporting SMEs, startups, and specialist suppliers. We invite these partners to collaborate with us, providing them with a route to market and guidance on best practices in industry and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. Moreover, we have created the boxxe Community, where every employee can contribute 11½ days each year to support community and social value activities. We prioritise a local-first approach to giving, ensuring that support reaches grassroots charities and local causes where it is needed most. This includes our involvement in the 'Graduation to Employment' programme where experienced personnel volunteer to provide career coaching to university graduates.
Through the boxxe Academy, we offer apprenticeships and seasonal internships to encourage the next generation into IT. We welcome interns and apprentices to our customer service, HR, service delivery, and service delivery teams, providing them with all-round experience to kick-start a career in tech.Equal opportunity
boxxe is committed to a workforce that reflects diverse populations with the skills to drive a compassionate and inclusive culture and a genuine sense of belonging. We embed inclusivity, celebrate uniqueness, and foster collaboration to eradicate inequalities in employment, skills, and pay in our workforce and our supply chain.
Recruitment is focused on inclusivity and fairness, encouraging diversity in ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic backgrounds by anonymising our candidates, concentrating on the alignment of their skills and experience, reducing conscious or unconscious bias. Our Competency Framework gives employees clear guidance on progression and developing the necessary competencies for higher level roles, integrating both technical and behavioural aspects in a Skills Matrix, and mapping out potential career paths. We offer online training and invest in our staff’s professional qualifications. Our annual pay review maintains market-aligned salaries, and we are a certified Real Living Wage employer. We offer enhanced, inclusive family policies including maternity, parental, and fertility-treatment paid leave.
We hold Flexa accreditation and operate a ‘Work from Anywhere in the UK’ policy which enhances accessibility for candidates facing barriers to inclusion, bolsters retention and facilitates a healthier work-life balance. We are a Level 1 Disability Confident Committed employer, aiming to achieve Level 2 by 2025. We actively address underrepresentation, particularly women in tech, and racial inequality as a founding member of Technology, Community for Racial Equality. We are proud of our advancement of female leadership, recognised at the CRN Women & Diversity in Channel Awards 2023. Our involvement with the Stonewall Diversity Champions reflects our dedication to LGBTQ+ allyship.
As a silver accredited Armed Forces Covenant member, we work to help create employment opportunities for ex-service personnel and support staff who are military reservists.Wellbeing
boxxe’s Wellbeing Strategy, built on direct feedback from our employees, reflects our dedication to prioritising our workforce’s mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing. This holistic approach recognises the importance of a comprehensive support system for overall health, satisfaction, and effectiveness of the workforce. We adhere to the Mental Health at Work Commitment and incorporate elements from the Thriving at Work guidance, despite being an organisation of less than 500 employees. This includes tailored mental health support, financial advice and low interest support loans, an EPA, occupational health support, and counselling services provided in-house by Mental Health First Aiders.
We champion a healthy workplace environment through the Mindful Business Charter, which emphasises removing unnecessary stress and promoting mental wellbeing with strategies including smart meetings, respecting rest periods, and mindful delegation. This charter serves as a guideline for all employees on small, practical changes to safeguard personal and colleague health.
To encourage open discussions about health, we foster a supportive culture where physical and mental health issues can be openly discussed, creating a safe space for employees to express concerns. We encourage our staff to participate in the boxxe Community programme, which has been shown to positively impact physical and mental wellbeing.
Our proactive engagement with the workforce includes regular wellbeing surveys, specialised training for managing stress at work, and comprehensive health benefits that cover physical and mental resources. We promote active lifestyles through incentivised physical activities, and we maintain health and safety standards in line with our ISO 45001 accreditation. We ensure wellbeing extends to our supply chain through our Supplier Code of Conduct, emphasising the importance of ethical standards and worker health and wellbeing, demonstrating our dedication to fostering a culture of health and wellbeing across all facets of our operations.
Pricing
- Price
- £0 to £0 a unit a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No