May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shoreham

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Roadmap

Andrey Moruga

Virtualization Product Manager, Parallels

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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