Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the world's leading OS virtualization solution. Parallels Virtuozzo creates isolated containers on a single physical server and OS instance. Compared to other virtualization technologies, Parallels Virtuozzo offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability.
Why Parallels Virtuozzo?
- 3x Density - Get 3x the number of virtual servers on each physical hardware node.
- The Best Manageability - Only solution to decrease OS sprawl while increasing virtual server management.
- Native Performance - Consolidate performance sensitive workloads without risking performance issues.
- High-Availability - Optimal uptime of virtual IT infrastructure to ensure business continuity.
- Proven Technology - Parallels Virtuozzo has been deployed on more than 10,000 physical servers, consistently providing high levels of isolation, security and reliability.
Effective Management of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers virtualized infrastructure
Parallels Infrastructure Manager (PIM) is an optional add-on web-based interface for Virtuozzo administrators to perform anytime, anywhere management of their virtualized IT infrastructures. PIM empowers administrators to manage containers and Virtuozzo servers from any computer with appropriate Internet or network access without loading client software. Learn more...
Parallels Management Console (PMC) is the built-in client-based interface that provides remote and systems administration management of multiple Virtuozzo servers and environments from a single interface. Learn more...
Find out how Virtuozzo customers are best leveraging on our solutions.
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Server Consolidation and OS Consolidation
Application and IT managers have become accustomed to dedicating a physical server to each application to ensure that there are no application conflicts and that there is sufficient room for growth. With today's high powered servers the single application approach leads to extremely low utilization rates, and hardware is only a small subset of the total cost of server ownership and this is why server consolidation is becoming so important. Consolidation of the hardware has historically been the first step in consolidation projects. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers takes consolidation a step further by consolidating OSs for easy management and reducing costs and complexity while improving service levels.
Virtuozzo provides full isolation between applications and its lean architecture allows a high server density. The unique Virtuozzo Containers architecture further accelerates the cost savings by reducing software licensing and support costs and through extensive management tools that help automate server management tasks.
Dynamic Workload Management
Application or business requirements in most organizations change daily. Deploying an application used to require a certain amount of planning and commitment to configuration and server placement. With Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, workloads in VEs can be easily moved with live migration or resources adjusted in real-time without downtime.
- Application and Server Agility - pair applications that have peak processing at different times of the day to fully utilize high-performance servers.
- Smart Configurations - Load servers with many applications of varying types. As critical applications grow such as email, move non-critical applications to other server to provide space for growth. Never over-provision another server anticipating growth over the next several years.
- Patch Testing and Deployment - Virtuozzo Containers provides the ideal tools and capabilities to effectively test, deploy and track software versions. Clone a virtualized server and applications to test a new patch or upgrade, and once it has been validated, deploy the change over an entire installation with a few clicks and in a few seconds.
Virtuozzo is the first virtualization solution that combines low-overhead and a an amazing ROI that can actually be justified to support a single virtualized server on a physical server.
Business Continuity
Ensuring that an application and data are safe and available is a requirement in every IT organization. Balancing the cost and resources required with the desired level of high availability or disaster recovery time produces a range of solutions and requirements. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides IT organizations with cost effective options for making data highly available and recoverable.
Actual Disasters
When a server resource becomes completely unavailable, there are many approaches to recovering data and making or keeping the application available. Each approach is dependent on the application and organization's requirements for recovery time.
Virtuozzo Containers Advantage: Enabling Cost-effective DR Solutions
Virtuozzo Containers can be a cost-effective component of any disaster recovery/ high availability solution, from an always available solution, to a fast recovery or backup recovery solution. Virtuozzo is the perfect solution for housing redundant servers that can be activated as necessary. Virtuozzo's mean time to repair (MTTR) is much shorter than many other options because of the smaller server virtualization footprint. It also has a much faster boot time because only the processes and data are booting, the operating system is already available.
Impending Disasters
Some natural disasters and hardware failures come with warning systems. Most hardware manufactures now have drivers that detect problems with hardware components such as motherboards.
Virtuozzo Containers Advantage: Proactive Disaster Mitigation
Virtuozzo Containers migration capabilities allow VEs to be moved in real-time with near-0 downtime (keeping the application available through the migration until the last few seconds), and no SAN is required. Any threat of system failure or impending catastrophic event can be minimized by moving VEs to any Virtuozzo Containers server with any hardware configuration in the time of data transfer.
Availability "Disasters"
Critical applications must be available 24x7 without hesitation and an overloaded application can appear to be unavailable.
Virtuozzo Containers Advantage: Flexible Resource Management
Applications virtualized on Virtuozzo enjoy complete flexibility of resource management, resources maybe added or reduced in real-time without service interruption. Overloaded applications can quickly and easily be provided with more resources.
Read the Pharmacy2U and Murphy Oil case studies to see how they've used Virtuozzo Containers to provide business continuity.
Internal and Commercial Hosting
IT organizations and businesses need to provide a simple, manageable infrastructure for offering hosted applications and data. Virtuozzo Containers is perfect for hosting with its lean architecture and complete security and isolation, it provides a cost effective multi-tenant solution. Virtuozzo Containers and VE administrators have complete toolsets to provision, manage, monitor and update virtual servers and environments.
Service providers have deployed Virtuozzo Containers successfully in the following services and configurations:
TrueVPS
TrueVPS is a service configured at 30+ virtualized partitions per server packaged with subset of low-end dedicated server services, typically priced well below dedicated server packages.
Customer Benefits
- Significantly cheaper than dedicated services
- Easier to manage than dedicated servers with administrative and recovery tools
- Functionally equal to dedicated servers (may offer administrative or root access)
Provider Benefits
- Much more profitable than dedicated services
- Isolation between customers reduces risk associated with shared services
- Prepares customers for dedicated or higher end services and creates a higher barrier to exit
Best Practices
- Keep competitive price level
- Bundle a control panel
- Offer Windows and Linux
- Offer some performance guarantees on low-level resources such as bandwidth and hard drive
- Creative marketing if possible can really help adoption
Split Dedicated
Split-Dedicated is a dedicated server provisioned with virtualization and management interfaces. It is typically offered to a resale channel or end customers.
Customer Benefits
- Utilizes server resources better
- Few applications or panels on 1 server
- Allows resellers to sell other virtualization based services
Provider Benefit
- Better offering for resellers
- Not competing with resellers
- More revenue per server
Best Practices
- Offer as another OS option
- Utilize the browser based interface for simple management tool deployment
- Control Panel packaging for resellers
Dynamic (Dedicated) Servers (DS/DDS)
Dynamic (Dedicated) Servers (DS/DDS) are dedicated-like virtualized services which are packaged and positioned as a better alternative to low-end dedicated servers and sold at similar prices. More...
Customer Benefits
- Complete self-management with a full set of administrative tools
- Easy upgrade for scalability
- May burst to available resources on the server, so service guarantees are the minimum
- Better availability, hardware is typically deployed with these more advanced services
Provider Benefits
- Infrastructure cost savings HW, Electricity, Datacenter
- Automatic provisioning and management
- Easy upsell and migration
Other
- Both Linux and Windows
- Recovery and Control Panels
- VZP2V tools
- Backup/Restore options
- Specifically sized, packaged and priced
Split-Shared
Split-Shared services split shared hosting accounts or services running on a single server into several VEs for manageability and isolation.
Customer Benefits
- Higher uptime
- Predictable performance
- Opportunity for more services for the same price
Provider Benefits
- Higher density - no risk of "crazy" scripts
- Convenient backup and restore
- Migration for maintenance and upgrades
Best Practices
- Really very straightforward
- P2V tools could be used to migrate
ManagedVPS
ManagedVPS is a fully managed VPS with a control panel without default root access, enabling a customer to take a higher level of service without any associated technical skills.
Customer Benefits
- Guaranteed SLA
- Upgrade SLA or to VPS/DS/DDS
- Customized application set
- Additional managed services
- Potential for Root control level
Provider Benefits
- Higher ARPU/customer
- Fully integrated and automated offering
- Never leaving to dedicated
Best Practices
- Offer for shared customers and move to VPS with the same control panel
Virtual Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure provisions any infrastructure server as a virtualized server.
Customer Benefits
- Lower costs resulted from saved $$$ and improved service levels by provider
Provider Benefits
- Standardized infrastructure
- Decreases cost and enables the purchase of better and more reliable servers
- Convenient provisioning re-provisioning, backup, restore
- Migration, monitoring
Other
- There is no downside
- VZP2V could be used for easy migration
View these case studies to see how these companies have deployed Virtuozzo for Internal and Commercial Hosting.
Development and Testing
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is a very powerful tool for development and QA departments. The ability to provision specific servers in seconds, and in potentially large quantities can help development operations increase quality and decrease time-to-market. VEs act in isolation just like regular servers; therefore, a change can be made on one virtual server without fear of harming any other virtual server eliminating the need for standalone servers for developers. Also the unique architecture of Virtuozzo Containers enables the highest level of virtualized server density, quality assurance and testing departments can deploy 100s of VEs to provide realistic environments for stress testing with the massive provisioning, management and hardware investment that would be required with standalone servers.
Read the case study about how arvato mobile uses Virtuozzo to support its development teams.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
How would you like to free up at least 50% of your desktop administrators' time? VDI is a complex term for the simple concept of consolidating end-user desktops on a centralized server. VDI uses virtualization technology to create user desktops, and can potentially pair with many other technologies as a part of a complete solution. The benefits to the VDI approach are many, including simplifying patch management and provisioning new applications to users in seconds. When using Virtuozzo Containers for deployment, you gain significant benefits including a much smaller footprint (resulting in a higher density of desktops), the ability to quickly customize desktops including permissions levels, and unbelievably fast provisioning and update management.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) white paper
Read the Kalido VDI customer spotlight
Read the Cox Communications VDI customer spotlight
Virtuozzo has some very unique capabilities:
Performance
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers’ lean architecture performs at levels consistent with native servers. Virtuozzo has no virtualized hardware and uses native hardware and software drivers making its performance unbeatable. Virtuozzo’s performance makes it suitable for high I/O applications such as databases and email servers. Find out more about performance.
Scalability
Each VE can seamlessly scale up to the resources of an entire physical server.
Density
Virtuozzo Containers’ efficient technology makes its VEs the highest density available from a virtualization solution. OS code and resource/cache sharing across VEs, templating of OSs and applications, VzCacheOnline are a few of the capabilities that enable up to 100s of VEs on a standard production physical server.
Consolidated OS and Application Management
Virtuozzo Containers uses a single OS, making it extremely simple to maintain and update across VEs. Applications may also be deployed as a single instance. Virtuozzo template technology enables the ability to update groups of servers or VEs to new patch levels.
Ultra Fast and Parallel Operations
Single OS instance with links and caches enable very fast VE provisioning and other operations. Create, restart, update, resize, backup/restore, migrate, and clone are some of the fast operations optimized for parallel operations.
Dynamic Resource Allocation
Change heavily detailed VE resource parameters in real-time with the flexibility to enable burstable resource usage.
Management Suite of Tools
Designed for Large-scale deployments with live deployments with as many 1,000s of VEs on 100s of physical servers. The complete suite includes permissions enabled browser-based and client interfaces for Virtuozzo Containers and VE administrators. Tools enable many operations including: convert, provision, monitor, backup, recover, analyze, troubleshoot, repair, migrate, self-manage and more across both Windows and Linux platforms for easy consistent management.
Tools Easy Integration
Virtuozzo Containers management tools use industry standard integration technologies: SOAP, XML RPC, CLI and SNMP APIs and SDK, LDAP. 3rd party tools may be easily integrated including: HP, IBM, Microsoft, and CA.
Parallels System and Business Automation
Expand virtualized automation into provisioning, workflow, usage accounting, chargeback capabilities and more!
Live Migration
Move VEs without a service interruption between non-shared storage, using a basic server and standard network configuration.
Broad Platform Support
General hardware independence, supporting any hardware supported by standard Windows and Linux operating systems. Platforms include: Itanium, x86, x64, EM64T and AMD64.
Detailed Resource Management
Virtuozzo Containers has extensive resource control with over 30 parameters to set VE performance and resource management guidelines for novice users.
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers has the lowest management and operations cost.
- Manage a high performance virtualization solution without learning a new OS.
- Fast Provisioning enables administrators to create and deploy containers in seconds.
- Dynamic resource management allows real-time changes of key system resources such as CPU, memory, network, disk and I/O.
- Eliminate OS sprawl-related problems by deploying patches and upgrades globally to all containers and across servers.
- Parallels Transporter allows reliable, easy migration from a physical or other VMM server to a Parallels Virtuozzo container.
- Easily automate tasks and integrate with existing tools.
Effective Management of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers virtualized infrastructure
Parallels Infrastructure Manager (PIM) is an optional add-on web-based interface for Virtuozzo administrators to perform anytime, anywhere management of their virtualized IT infrastructures. PIM empowers administrators to manage containers and Virtuozzo servers from any computer with appropriate Internet or network access without loading client software. Learn more...
Parallels Management Console (PMC) is the built-in client-based interface that provides remote and systems administration management of multiple Virtuozzo servers and environments from a single interface. Learn more...
Comparison of Parallels Virtuozzo Management Tools - PIM and PMC
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers delivers the most virtual servers per physical server, providing the best return on investment.
- Up to 1,000's of containers per each standard physical server.
- Advanced caching to share limited resources effectively.
- High Density Partitioning efficiently divides a server into multiple containers while maximizing the server’s resources.
Ensure that applications operate at their peak performance.
- Full native performance architecture ensures that applications maintain all performance optimizations and run at their highest levels.
- High I/O traffic is manageable without throughput degradation.
- Links and cacshes enable faster application and response times.
- Each container can use up to the full resources of the server.
- Granular resource control enables performance tuning for individual containers.
Ensures optimal uptime of servers, containers and applications.
- Server and container clustering ensures continuous availability of business through support for Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and Red Hat Cluster Services.
- Network redundancy and effective usage of network resources is facilitated with support for Microsoft Network Load Balancing services.
- Protect mission-critical data and the virtual IT infrastructure with built-in backup enhancements.
The sections within this area assist you in downloading and evaluating Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.
- Documentation
- White Papers
Below are links to documentation for both Windows and Linux versions of Virtuozzo. Please feel free to download and read these so that you get a better experience of Virtuozzo.
Virtuozzo for Windows Servers
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| Upgrading to Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 |
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| Installation Guide |
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| Getting Started |
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| Templates Management Guide |
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| Reference Guide |
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| Management of UBC Resources Administrator's Guide |
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| Deploying RHCS Clusters |
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Virtuozzo Containers for Windows Documentation
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| Upgrading to Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 |
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| Deploying Microsoft Clusters |
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Parallels Agent Documentation
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| SOAP Tutorial |
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| XML Programmer's Reference |
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| Porting v. 3.0.x applications to v. 4.0.0 |
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General Documentation
| Virtuozzo Containers Evaluation Guide |
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| Clustering in Virtuozzo-Based Systems |
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Below you will find the PDF library from the Parallels archive. In order to understand why and how virtualization using Parallels Virtuozzo can benefit your organization please do take some time to read some of the white papers provided.
| An Introduction to OS Virtualization and Virtuozzo
An overview of operating system virtualization and the Virtuozzo product offering. |
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This paper discusses the components of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) solution and how Virtuozzo can be a compelling virtualization choice for VDI. |
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Learn how workflow management features introduced in Parallels Virtuozzo 4.0 achieve a more automated datacenter. |
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Server virtualization is one way datacenter managers can reduce the amount of energy datacenters consume by eliminating underutilized servers are available. Read this white paper to see how Virtuozzo can help make the most of your green computing initiative. |
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| Virtuozzo for Windows Capacity and Scaling
Use this technical paper to prepare for a Virtuozzo consolidation project. Consolidation ratios, resource usage and evaluation as well as system density are explained in detail. |
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| Deploying Application and OS Virtualization Together: Citrix and Virtuozzo |
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| Virtual Appliances
This paper includes an introduction to virtual appliances and a discussion and comparison of Virtual Appliances created with Virtuozzo and other virtualization technologies. |
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| Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management on Itanium® 2-Based Servers
This joint Itanium Solutions Alliance white paper covers the deployment and practical deployment of Virtuozzo on Itanium® 2-Based servers. The paper includes a discussion on both technologies and recommended usage models. |
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| Virtuozzo Templating For More Efficient Virtualization Management
Templating is a unique capability that adds to the operational and architectural efficiency as well as the manageability of Virtuozzo virtual environments. This paper examines the need, benefits and technology behind templating. |
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| IDEAS International: OS Virtualization White Paper
Tony Iams, VP and Senior Consultant at Ideas International, takes a look at the newly emerging OS Virtualization market including an overview of the available solutions and a guide for when to consider OS virtualization. |
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| Live Migration
This white paper examines the technology and benefits associated with this innovative capability that enables moving a running application from one Virtuozzo server to another without service interruption. |
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| Virtualizing High Network I/O Environments
This joint Intel white paper explores how to address virtualization in an environment with high I/O. The paper includes a technology overview, network concerns and explains how Virtuozzo and Intel are well suited for the high I/O environment. |
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| The Advantages of Multi-Port Network Adapters in an Parallels Virtual Environment
This joint HP Parallels white paper explores best practices associated with multi-port adapters to ensure high availability and manage large I/O traffic loads. |
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| Top Ten Server Virtualization Technology Considerations
The top ten list provides key guidelines for honing in on the differences between the solutions and helping to understand the basic options and limitations of each virtualization approach. |
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