PARALLELS
Choose the right VDI solution (VDI)
How to choose the right VDI solution…….more
TCO Analysis WP (Total cost of ownership)
“The ROI of just the hardware and software components, without considering reduced travel or administrative time costs, shows in excess of 900% for the first year alone.”……..more
HP and Parallels
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers OS server virtualization offers the highest levels of density, Performance and manageability……..more
HP paralels PVC
Every enterprise can benefit from improving the utilization of IT resources. Improved utilization not only helps reduce costs but can also simplify IT infrastructure, leading to reduced operations costs. A virtual computing infrastructure can provide the features that enable these benefits. At the same time, a virtual infrastructure can heighten the availability of mission-critical applications and improve IT agility to respond to business needs. The SWsoft Virtuozzo server virtualization solution provides a high-performance, low-overhead environment for virtual computing infrastructures; the low overhead of Virtuozzo makes it ideal for I/O intensive applications such as databases. To maintain the reliability, flexibility and performance that a high I/O virtual infrastructure provides, physical servers hosting virtual environments need multiple high-throughput network connections. This is an ideal environment for the use of connection-dense HP ProLiant NC series network adapters based on Intel technology…………..more
Parallels PVC workflow management
Today’s smart IT managers focus on how to automate the datacenter to increase the quality of services delivered within the organization as a key element in their business alignment strategies. Virtualization is shown to effectively reduce operational costs such as power consumption and physical asset costs, but still has untapped potential in providing administrators automated mechanisms to provision and manage the datacenter’s virtual infrastructure. Effective automation tools, such as workflow management, allow administrators to recoup time from the reduction or elimination of repetitive low-value tasks. IT departments can graduate from running as a reactive organization to one that functions in a proactive manner and is focused on service delivery and alignment with the business units of the company…………more
Parallels PVC Advanced Virtualization on Itanium
Virtualization and workload management are essential technologies for maximizing scalability, availability and value on high-end computing systems, and Itanium® 2-based servers offer many options. One is Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, a proven, software-based virtualization solution for consolidating Linux and Windows applications. It provides granular control of workloads, along with exceptional performance and scalability—factors that make it ideal for many mission-critical environments…………..more
Parallels PVC Greener Virtualization
Operating system virtualization by Parallels Virtuozzo Containers from Parallels is more efficient than hypervisor-based approaches. The benefits? Less energy consumed and lower ownership costs…………..more
Parallels PVC and VDI
Desktop computing has become one of the cores of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, the desktop PC wasn’t designed to handle the requirements of an enterprise infrastructure. As distributed end-points, desktops are very difficult to manage, maintain and secure…………more
Parallels PVC capacity and scaling
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Windows virtualization solution, among other goals, helps IT professionals to increase server utilization. However, high resource utilization may be also associated with resource over-commitment, creating performance and even stability issues. This document should help Virtuozzo users to properly plan, setup and monitor their virtual infrastructure, providing efficient resource usage while meeting applications performance expectations and maintaining high services availability………..more
Parallels PVC Citrix deploy applicaton
There are many types of virtualization technologies and the lines are becoming blurred between the different types. When is it appropriate to use one type of technology? Is it beneficial to use two types of virtualization technologies together? As virtualization becomes more pervasive in the datacenter, organizations are deploying multiple technologies and a significant trend is using complimentary types of virtualization technologies together to provide an even stronger and more robust solution and ROI for the IT organization……….more
Parallels PVC Introduction
Today’s IT organizations are dealing with the consequences of exploding IT infrastructure growth and complexity. While computing resources continue to increase in power, organizations are unable to fully utilize them in single application deployments and cannot change computing resource assignments easily when application or business requirements change. At the root of the problem is uncontrolled server sprawl, servers provisioned to support a single application. Organizations that implemented hardware virtualization have unwittingly created a new problem: OS sprawl……..more
Parallels PVC Live migration
This document was created to provide the technical background and an explanation of how live migration has been implemented in Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux. The document contains an overview regarding the core server technology, networking implications and other concerns regarding the capability………more
Parallels PVC templates
Historically, IT administrators provisioned a new server every with every new application resulting in a large number of servers with utilization rates of 10-15% or less, commonly known as server sprawl.………..more
Parallels PVC top ten considerations
The playing field for server virtualization has become much more crowded over the last few years. Competition is always good for a market as more choices always push vendors into providing better products at more competitive prices. It can be very time consuming to digest each vendor’s marketing materials to come to the right solution for your organization. This checklist provides a list of the main considerations and basic differences between the technologies to provide a starting point for technology evaluation. The three main technologies discussed in this analysis are: hardware virtualization, para-virtualization and OS virtualization………more
Parallels PVC virtual appliances
Recently, virtual appliances have been gaining notoriety with IT organizations. Virtual appliances are a pre-packed ready to deploy instance of an application or a set of applications created in a virtual machine or environment. On the surface, the idea is very attractive; the appliance is already configured and packaged to be quickly deployed on any server. For example, a DNS appliance would contain a pre-determined configuration for a virtual machine or environment and a loaded DNS instance………more
Parallels PVC virtualizing
Every enterprise can benefit from improving the utilization of IT resources. Improved utilization not only helps reduce costs but can also simplify IT infrastructure, leading to reduced operations costs. A virtual computing infrastructure can provide the features that enable these benefits. At the same time, a virtual infrastructure can heighten the availability of mission-critical applications and improve IT agility to respond to business needs………more
Parallels PVC vs VMware Virtual Infrastructure
With so much hype and buzz in the market surrounding the idea of virtualization, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement. For the uninitiated, the differences between Hardware Virtualization tools like VMware Virtual Infrastructure and those that drive O/S Virtualization like Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are of little consequence. But in reality their goals and feature sets are vastly different. With all the types of virtualization products in the market today, understanding their nuances and ultimately finding those that work best in your environment can be challenging…….more
Parallels Virtuozzo containers VDI sizing
IT organizations find incredible value in benchmarks and the ability to provide side by side comparisons of tests and performance characteristics of different architectures and products, using the exact same methodology and criteria. With that goal in mind, this paper replicates as accurately and fairly as possible the VMware VDI Sizing White paper1. This paper outlines the tests, configurations and how the final results were obtained………more
Virtuozzo and Solaris Zones comparison
Virtuozzo and Solaris 10 Zones are two competing products, allowing to run multiple virtual environments on one physical host. Both have similar underlied technologies, called virtualization on the OS level. This comparison shows that Virtuozzo product outperforms Solaris Zones by management tools and supported functionality……….more