May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shoreham
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PVC 5.0 Roadmap
• Parallels Roadmaps not available online
– Parallels Partners may contact their sales representative regarding roadmap availability
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