Virtuozzo Released Integrated Container, Hypervisor and Storage Solution

Virtuozzo, a brand name of Parallels International GmbH, announced its integrated container, hypervisor and storage solution.

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With enhancements designed to improve performance, ease-of-use and security, this release of the company’s accelerates application workloads and simplifies deployments with centralized management and new automation tools. The firm’s platform optimizes infrastructure costs with a software solution that combines performance with the freedom to use any x86 server-based architecture – or opt for dedicated bare metal servers from the cloud.

Release highlights:

• Reduce storage costs with RAID-6 erasure coding performance improvements – This release improves the performance of data located on Virtuozzo Storage in erasure code mode, which provides added data protection and enables more efficient use of disk space. This allows customers to run virtualization and database workloads up to 130% faster, as well as run more workloads per host to reduce hardware footprints and lower TCO. It also provides customers with flexibility depending on the workload or type of storage needed, including support for container and VM volume storage using erasure coding mode, or support for more demanding workloads, including advanced cloud services and databases, using replicas.

• Deploy and manage containers, VMs and storage from a single solution – Customers can now manage compute and storage for hyperconverged infrastructure deployments together with the Virtuozzo Automator and Virtuozzo Storage management panels available in a single solution. This makes installations and management easier and faster, while giving customers more control over their deployments to optimize costs and server capacity.

• Perform hypervisor security updates with no downtime – With this release, the company’ solution enables the installation of hypervisor updates without the need to restart the VM. This improvement allows customers to avoid service interruptions to end users, while keeping hypervisors secure and saving IT departments countless hours on maintenance and updates. Virtuozzo also includes ReadyKernel, which provides similar benefits for Linux kernel updates for containers.

• Run Windows VMs in Virtuozzo deployments – VMs running Windows will now work in the platform’ deployments without the need to install Microsoft disk drivers inside the VM, using newly added Hyper-V paravirt storage device emulation. This functionality is the result of community work that the firm has been doing with KVM/QEMU, and simplifies the installation of VMs running Windows into Virtuozzo environments.

• Enable automated updates of guest tools in VMs – The company’s solution enables automated updates for guest tools to ensure that VMs are properly configured with every new update.

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“Our latest release of Virtuozzo makes it easier for our customers to deploy and manage a hyperconverged infrastructure with integrated compute and storage in a single solution,” said George Karidis, CEO, Virtuozzo. “With Virtuozzo, companies can run existing apps with breakthrough performance and efficiency by leveraging containers, VMs and storage, while putting in place a next generation infrastructure for cloud native apps and microservices.“

Additional features include upgrade options for backup and restore of Virtuozzo 6 VMs and containers to Virtuozzo 7 nodes, and automated disk compacting for Linux VMs to minimize disk usage.

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