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Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Roadmap Andrey Moruga Virtualization Product Manager, Parallels In This Presentation Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0: What’s New for Hosting Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5: Support of Windows Server 2008
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Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Roadmap Andrey Moruga Virtualization Product Manager, Parallels
In This Presentation Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0: What’s New for Hosting Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5: Support of Windows Server 2008 Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 5.0: New Major Release for Both Platforms Parallels Summit 2008
PVC 4.0: Themes Higher Level SLAs Failover cluster support: automatic restart in event of software of hardware failure Windows (Microsoft cluster) and Linux (Red Hat cluster) Backup enhancements Centralized Management New management tool: Parallels Virtual Automation Infrastructure and Logical views: group resources as you’d like Multi-level permissions and delegation Efficiency and Architecture Enhancements Improved SLM; new resource management options Faster and more compact VZFS NFS inside a container Parallels Summit 2008
PVC 4.0: What’s New Clustering Support Active/Passive – N+1 solution (e.g. 4 active, one standby) Shared storage is required: iSCSI or Fiber Channel All the containers are automatically protected Why important Create new higher-end offerings Protect your critical infrastructure services Backup enhancements VSS aware backup and third party backup integration for Windows Online snapshot based backup for Linux Backup scheduler Why important More consistent backup of databases and other data-intensive applications Parallels Summit 2008
PVC 4.0: What’s New (Contd.) Improved Resource Management Disk IO priorities (Linux) Burstable CPU limit (Linux) Network bandwidth (Windows) CPU guarantees (Windows) Why important Better resources isolation for seamless customer’s experience GFS Support (Linux) Multi-host file system; container is registered on one of the servers attached Works with failover cluster Why important Fast online backups without data move Server may be released for maintenance in minutes, not hours Parallels Summit 2008
PVC for Windows 4.5: Roadmap Scheduled Availability: Q3 2008 Support of new Microsoft Server OS English, German and Japanese Languages Windows 2008 Containers Virtualized Windows 2008 server instances Why important Create new Windows hosting offering based on Windows 2008 Core Server Containers Support Containers without GUI; Non-interactive sessions Why important Run Plesk in containers without interactive terminal sessions Smaller resource requirements and better density Parallels Summit 2008
PVC 5.0 Roadmap Parallels Roadmaps not available online Parallels Partners may contact their sales representative regarding roadmap availability Parallels Summit 2008