Enhancements of Virtuozzo Platform, Integrated Container, Hypervisor and Storage Solution

Virtuozzo announced a release of the Virtuozzo platform, its integrated container, hypervisor and storage offering for businesses and service providers.

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This release features simplified set up and automated operations that makes managing HA fast and easy. It also features enhancements to Virtuozzo Storage that support a growing number of uses cases, including hyperconverged infrastructure deployments and storage for application containers.

Virtuozzo Storage supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm container orchestration platforms with native and certified storage integrations. The company has demonstrated these solutions at KubeCon event, Austin, TX. Participating as a Silver Sponsor, the firm showed attendees how they can solve the persistent storage problem for containers.

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Brings advances to compute and storage
The platform with integrated storage optimizes infrastructure costs with a pure software-defined solution that runs on any x86 server-based architecture – or dedicated bare metal servers from the cloud.

This release brings improvements designed to further simplify the deployment and management of containers and VMs, most notably in the areas of HA and storage. In the event of a node failure, all instances are automatically relaunched on another node, which is made possible by software-defined shared storage. With this release, the process for configuring HA only requires one simple step from the end-user, which saves time and reduces the chance of errors.

Virtuozzo Storage provides distributed, software-defined storage that can support multiple use cases for enterprises and service providers, including hyperconverged infrastructure deployments and container storage for cloud native apps and micro-services.

With each update, the company brings improvements to both its core storage components and value-added features to push reliability and security as far as possible, while making management simpler.

Following storage updates are included:

• Automated alerts and email notifications – Users can receive automated alerts and updates on storage issues, view logs and audit all actions – centrally managed from the Virtuozzo Storage UI.

• Enhanced S3 geo-replication – Capabilities added to protect data against data center outages with support for multiple remote clusters and a simplified configuration procedure available in the Virtuozzo Storage UI.

• Define QoS limits for iSCSI targets – Users can define limits for IO/s and bandwidth from within the storage cluster control panel per iSCSI targets.

This release also brings added features to support the live migration of containers and VMs, including the ability to preserve the initial data store when performing migrations to ensure proper system configurations when moving data. A complete list of updates included in this release and more information on how to install it is available online here.

“Our goal is to bring higher levels of simplicity, efficiency and flexibility to our products with every release,” said George Karidis, CEO, Virtuozzo. “With this update, we’ve made it much easier to ensure HA, while continuing to make sure our customers have the best-performing, most flexible options for cutting-edge software-defined storage.“