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Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Roadmap
Andrey Moruga Virtualization Product Manager,
Parallels
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In This Presentation

• Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 Whats 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 youd 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 Whats New

• Clustering Support
• Active/Passive N1 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 Whats 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
  customers 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