May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shoreham

Parallels Plesk Control Panel 9.0Beta Release Webinar

Ravi Pimplaskar, Product Marketing Manager, Service Provider Division

Todd L Crumpler, Sales Development Manager, Service Provider Division

Parallels – Optimized Computing TM2

• Release 9.0 New Features

• What’s in Beta

• Supported Platforms

• Upgrade Strategy

• Licensing

• Q/A

• Webinar Questions can be sent by emailing [email protected]. Please use the word Webinar Question in the subject line.

Agenda

Parallels – Optimized Computing TM

What’s New in Plesk 9 UI

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New Vista-like skin

New Home Page Elements

Navigation Improvements

Object Context Navigation


Home Page Elements

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• Improved statistics

• Mostly used commands are presented by icons

• Other commands are available from drop-down menu


Navigation Improvements

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Improved favorites & last visited pagesEasily accessible from every screen to navigate to needed pages

Searchavailable from every page to fast access to needed objects

New menu itemsfor easy access to important screens of control panel (Mail, Applications, Settings)

Enhanced filtering on object listsNow it’s possible to filter by status, resource usage, ownership and other parameters


Context Navigation Concept

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• Plesk 9 understands when you are working in a specific context in the object hierarchy of Administrator – Resellers – Clients – Domains

• You enter a context by selecting an appropriate object from the list or by finding it via the Search field in the left navigation bar

• The task page a user is on becomes the context and the home page for any new selection. Work quickly in different domains, clients, resellers, for any context you choose.

• All creation operations work within the current context Account– Executing “Create Domain” from Administrator's Home Page will create a domain for Administrator

– Doing this from a Client’s Home Page you’ll create a domain for this client


Resellers

DOMAIN

CLIENT

DomainAdministrator

RESELLER

DOMAIN

DomainAdministrator

CLIENT

DOMAIN

DomainAdministrator

CLIENT

DOMAIN

PLESK ADMIN

New Reseller role

•Same functionality as Plesk Admin except for server management

•Ability to have its own Clients and Domains

•Separate billing management

•Customizable look and feel for control panel branding

•New Ability to Oversell Account Resources

•Flexible Resource Management – different reactions to Overuse

•Full API Backward Compatibility Eliminating Upgrade Concerns

PLESK ADMIN


Easy Account Migration

PLESK ADMIN

PLESK ADMIN

DOMAIN

DomainAdministrator

CLIENT

RESELLER

DomainAdministrator

Existing Clients can be easily migrated to Resellersto get full benefits of the new role


CLIENT 2

2GB

Resource Management

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• Overselling Resources – Administrators, Resellers, and Clients can now oversell their granted

system resources, which means the total amount of limits distributed to their sub-accounts can exceed their own account limits

• Overusing Resources– Administrator and Reseller can allow their clients exceeding the resource

limits assigned to them

– Notification can be issued before a resource limit is reached

RESELLER

4 GB Disk Space

CLIENT 1

2GB

CLIENT 3

2GB


Easy Account Migration

PLESK ADMIN

DOMAIN

CLIENT

PLESK ADMIN

DOMAIN

CLIENTCLIENT

DomainAdministrator

RESELLER RESELLER


Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog• Browse through applications available on APS Publishing site

• Convenient grouping by application types

• Flexible search criteria

• Check for applications updates

• Install selected applications on Plesk server

• Push applications into Clients’ application pools


CLIENT’SAPPLICATION

POOL

APPLICATION VAULT

Domain

Domain

APS CATALOG

Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog

Administrator browses applications grouped

by categories on APS Publishing site.

Selects desired applications and

downloads them to server Application

Vault.

Administrator manages Application Vault by assigning application

access to the Resellers and Clients.

Assigned applications show up in clients’ Application Pools

Clients select applications from

their own Application Pools and install

them on Web sites.


• PHP over CGI/FastCGI– Faster execution of PHP scripts

– Safe execution of PHP scripts

– Choice of PHP version (Windows only)

• lighttpd for Control Panel server– Easier configuration

– Increased Parallels Virtuozzo Container density

• Multiple MTA Options– Postfix

• Multiple webmail on Unix– @mail support

System Improvements


Improved Multi-Level Backup/Restore

PLESK ADMIN

DOMAIN

RESELLER

CLIENT

Web User Mail User

LOCAL DISK /

WORKSTATION

PROVIDER’S FTP /

USER’S FTP

Backup

Backup

Backup

Backup

Each user can order full or partial backup within his/her scope of visibility. The backup can contain just Control Panel configuration or include services content.

The backup can be stored locally, or outside the Plesk server.

*Feature Not Currently in Beta


• Complete Hosting Solution• Seamless end to end integration

• Sell, Provision, Manage hosting plans

• Full automation and management of domain registrations

• Hosting plans synchronized with provisioning templates

• Integrated GUI for service provider and clients

• Support for over 20 payment gateways

• UI Navigation between Control Panel and Billing

Plesk Billing

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*Feature Currently Not in Beta


Unix PlatformsOS Version VZ EZ x64 Beta?

Fedora Core 4, 5 Yes Yes Yes

Fedora Core 6 Yes Yes Yes

Fedora 7, 8 Yes Yes Yes

CentOS 4.X Yes Yes Yes

CentOS 5.X Yes Yes Yes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Yes Yes Yes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Yes Yes Yes

SuSE Linux 9.3 Yes Yes

SuSE Linux 10.0 Yes Yes Yes

SuSE Linux 10.1 Yes Yes Yes

openSuSE 10.2,10.3 Yes Yes Yes

openSuSE 11.0 Yes

SuSE Enterprise 10 Yes Yes

SuSE Enterprise 9.0 Yes Yes

FreeBSD 6.1 Yes

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, 4.0 Yes 4.0 only Yes

Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10, 8.04 LTS Yes Yes Yes


Windows PlatformsOS Version VZ3 VZ4 i386 x64 Beta?

Windows 2003 Server Web Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Windows 2003 Server Data Center Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition SP1 Yes Yes Yes

Windows 2008 Server Enterprise Edition SP1 Yes Yes Yes

Windows 2008 Server Data Center Edition SP1 Yes Yes Yes

MS SQL 2008 Fully Supported


• UI Improvements

• Resellers

• APS Catalog

• PHP over CGI/FastCGI

• lighttpd for Control Panel server

What’s in Beta Download Today?


Upgrade Strategy• Direct Upgrade from 7.5, 7.6 and 8.x versions will be possible

• Pre 7.5.x versions can be migrated by Plesk migration tools

• Business model is not changed during upgrade

• Resellers are not created

• Oversell / overuse modes are turned off

• No future upgrade from Beta to Production

• License Keys:

• Beta supplied with unlimited test key activated till November 1st 2008.

• Production installation will upgrade your key automatically if you have active SUS subscription

• All acquired add-ons will be preserved


Questions ?Webinar Questions can be sent via Webex Chat or by

emailing [email protected]. Please use the word Webinar Question in the subject line.

• Please send your testing feedback or questions to [email protected] at any time.

• In case you didn't have a chance to download and try the distribution, you may do it at http://www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk9beta/ and fill in the feedback form at http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk9/beta/survey . If you encounter any problems, feel free to send a problem report to us by submitting it via

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk9/beta/problemreport.

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May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shoreham