Parallels® Virtual Automation, formerly Parallels Infrastructure Manager, is the industry’s first comprehensive management solution that streamlines operations and reduces complexity of managing physical and virtual servers — including both containers and virtual machines. Through self-service and automation, administrator’s can lower costs and efficiently manage their infrastructure from anywhere.
Parallels Virtual Automation manages both Parallels® Virtuozzo Containers and Parallels ®Server 4 Bare Metal under a single, unified management console. The result is a reduction in support and management costs through the automation of the virtual server lifecycle and user management.
Key Features
- Centralized management for physical and virtual environments
- Automated tools to quickly identify, diagnose and resolve problems before they affect server performance
- Provision, update and maintain virtual environments within minutes transparently to end users
- Supervise health and utilization of system resources to prevent critical events from affecting system availability
Key Benefits
- Comprehensive management: manage all physical servers and virtualized environments seamlessly from a single management console
- Effective automation & management: create, modify, manage, delete, back-up applications and operating systems in single or batch mode
- Fast provisioning: templates reduce effort to provision virtual environments to within minutes
- Safe and secure: isolated services running on each virtual environment
- Reduce downtime: ability to perform online/offline migration in preparation for planned maintenance
- Increase availability: greater accessibility to applications and services with failover clustering support
- Monitor resource usage: graphically display current resource utilization of chosen virtual environments or obtain report of top resource consumers
- Network usage: monitor and control network activities and settings to optimize each virtual environment
- Streamline virtual environment backup: ability to automate and schedule virtual environment backup
- Test software: online cloning to safely evaluate new software and patches before enterprise rollout
- Customize User Access: centralized access control for containers and users
- Ensure network security: configure network services available for different containers
