Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

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.

Server 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.

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.

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.

Green Datacenters

Power consumption within datacenters has become a major concern due to the impact on the environment as well as the impact on costs due to rising energy prices. Using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, datacenter owners have reduced power consumption by 60-80%.

Compared to other virtualization technologies, Virtuozzo's high virtual environment density makes it the "greenest" virtualization solution. The highest density of virtual environments enables the best consolidation ratios and minimizes power consumption up to 10 times more than other virtualization technologies.