configuring parallels infrastructure manager for hosting and saas

May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shoreham

Configuring Parallels Infrastructure Manager for Hosting and SaaS

Oleg Shaikhatarov

Program Manager, Parallels

Parallels Summit 20082

Parallels Infrastructure Manager

New name for the product

Parallels Virtual Automation

(part of Parallels Automation product line)


What is Parallels Virtual Automation?


• Shared Hosting

Why would HSP need Virtualization?

Virtualization

• Application Hosting

• True VPS

• Managed VPS

• Dynamic Dedicated

• Split Dedicated

• Virtualized Infrastructure

! Availability (long time-to-recover) !! Resource Management (utilization) !

! No customers isolation (failure impact) !

• Split-Shared

• Software-as-a-service


Virtualization management challenges

• Virtualization Benefits– Availability

▪ Online Migration

▪ Online Backup/Restore

– Resource Management▪ On-the-fly allocation

▪ Resource pools delegation

▪ Optimize workloads

– Full Isolation & Security▪ End-user Freedom

– Dynamic Provisioning

• Management Challenges– 10s times more OS

instances to manage

– Configuration

– Monitoring

– Compliance with SLA

– Allocate/adjust resources

– Mass management

– Integration with existing management system

How to realize benefits of Virtualization and address management challenges?


Template-based mass provisioning

Mass-operations and mass-configuration

Centralized backup and recovery

Centralized view on availability and SLA compliance

Centralized monitoring and resource usage collection

Multi-level delegation and self-service panels

Accessible from anywhere

Integration and Customization

Virtualization management system req.

Parallels Virtual Automation (PVA)


Position within Parallels Solutions


Ecosystem

Consumer & Business (On Premise)

Service Provider(Hosted & SaaS)

Usage Model

Solutions

SystemSupport IA64

Baremetal/HostedX86/x64

VMware XenWindowsHyper-V

Linux Mac OS

APS StandardAPS Catalog &

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• Centralized Management of Virtual Infrastructure– Heterogeneous infrastructure of Virtuozzo servers

• Complete Virtualization Lifecycle– Convert, provision, migrate, backup, recover, monitor, self-manage

• Large Scale Management– 100s of admins, 1000s of servers, 10s of 1000s of Containers

• Anywhere Access via Web Browser– Cross-browser, DHTML, AJAX, GUI-like experience

• Easy to Use and Integrate– Easy to use web User Interface

– Standard APIs with references and tutorials

What is PVA?


Parallels Virtual Automation 4.0


Comparison with Virtuozzo 3.x

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Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0

Centralized Admin Panel (Web)

Multi-server API (XML/SOAP)


• Streamline Provisioning– Create one or many Containers at once

– Pre-configured Container Samples

• Centralized Mass-Management– Resource pools, OS/Applications, Updates, Network configuration

• Centralized Monitoring– Actual view on Containers availability, events and alerts

• Delegated Access– Flexible Role-based Security Model

• Single Point for Integration– Multi-server management API (XML/SOAP)

– Becomes de-facto standard for virtual infrastructure management within Parallels products (replacement for host-based integration)

Key Capabilities of PVA 4.0


• Control Panel Layout Overview– Physical vs. Logical View

– Consolidated lists of Nodes, Containers and Backups

• Delegated Access– Flexible Role-based Security Model

– Delegation of resource pool

• Mass-Management– Template-based mass provisioning

– Mass operations

– Mass applications installation

– Mass configuration changes

• Dynamic UI– Reflection of Container statuses

PIM 4.0 Online Demo


Roadmap Overview• Parallels Roadmaps not available online

– Parallels Partners may contact their sales representative regarding roadmap availability


• Parallels Server support– Cross-platform, cross-architecture (Win/Lin/Mac, i386/x64/ia64)

– Complete management of full VM life cycle

• Unified Management– Common Container/VM operations

– Common samples management

– Common provisioning process

– Common monitoring and resource usage accounting

• Other features– Disk Images library

– Audit within operations log

– User sessions management

• Performance and Scalability improvements



PVA 4.5 ArchitectureParallels Virtual Automation for management of Virtualized Infrastructure

Parallels Server

Management Plug-in

Management Server

Multi-server API

Admin Portal Self Service Portal

Virtuozzo Containers

Management Plug-in

VMware Management

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There will be screenshots (one per slide):

• Combined list of VZ/PRL Hosts

• Combined list of Containers and VMs

• Combined list of Container/VM templates

• Creation of new Virtual Machine(s)

• VM Console Access



Parallels Automation


Parallels Product LinesParallels Automation

Complete automation & management of IT systems and processes

Server Virtualization

Parallels Server

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

Server Management

Parallels Plesk Control Panel

Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder

Desktop Virtualization

Parallels Desktop

Parallels Workstation

Parallels Automation Development Platform

Business AutomationOperations AutomationVirtual Automation


Parallels Automation Products Overview

Operations ManagerParallels Operations Automation

• End to End Provisioning

• Centralized Monitoring

• Centralized Resource Management

• Extensible Self Service Portal

Virtual ManagerParallels Virtual Automation

• Multiple Virtualization Technologies

• OS Containers and VMs

• Provisioning and Management

• Self Service Capabilities

Parallels Business Automation

• Automated Service Ordering

• Workflow Management

• Usage Accounting

• Chargeback Billing


Parallels Automation Products - Future

License Manager

• Licenses pool

• Integrated with licensing servers

• Events and Alerts

• Usage Reports

• Integrated w/ provisioning & billing

Applications Manager

• Built on APS standard

• Deployment into various env’s

• Applications config, monitoring, etc

• Single-/multi-server services

• Self-service portal

Network Manager

• Network discovery

• IP pools and IP allocations

• Name Servers (DNS) Management

• Virtual Networks Management

• Network Topology Maps

Storage Manager

• Unified Storage Administration

• Capacity Planning and Monitoring

• NAS, SAN, NFS, SMB/CIFS, FTP

• Mirroring and Clustering

• API for internal/external use


Summary• Realize the potential of Virtualization

– If you use Virtualization, you need Virtual Automation

– PVA allows you to efficiently manage your virtual infrastructure

• Most of you already use pieces of PVA– If you use Virtuozzo, you use some components of PVA

– If you use Parallels Automation, you will use PVA

• Future of multi-virtualization management– Virtuozzo and VM-based technologies compliment each other

– Choose the right technology for the job

– Parallels Virtual Automation will manage them all

– TRANSPARENTLY!

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Questions & Answers


Questions & Answers

Now a Few Minutes For Your Questions …

Meet me at the at The Summit:

Oleg Shaikhatarov,

Program Manager for Parallels Virtual Automation

[email protected]

Thank You


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