Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal

Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal

Product Summary

1/21/2010

Company Overview

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for services providers, businesses and consumers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms.

Parallels Quick Facts

 Fast-growing company with 650+ employees in North America, Europe, and Asia

 Deployed in 200+ of the Fortune 500, and 1,000+ mid and large service providers

 Run on more than 2 million desktops, over 300,000 physical servers and over a 1 million containers

 Revenue has grown every year since inception and global sales are balanced

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) was founded in 1999 by a group of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) graduates led by Serguei Beloussov. Parallels was established on a single vision that the majority of business and consumer IT will move to consolidated data centers operated by service providers, with applications and services delivered remotely through the Internet to end users.

Parallels Focuses on Three Main Segments

 Cloud Services Providers – with a complete set of technologies, products solutions and ecosystem to enable cloud computing services targeting SMBs (65 – 70% of future business)

 Consumers – with the most sophisticated and proven desktop and workstation virtualization technology (25% of future business)

 Enterprises – with optimized and high performing server and desktop virtualization solutions (5-10%

of future business)

For cloud services providers, Parallels provides the ability to efficiently and profitably offer hosted

services– including domains, shared hosting, virtualized, dedicated and application hosting— to end

users (consumers and businesses). The cloud computing market, estimated to be $16bn in 2008, is

growing 27% per year and is forecasted to be 9% of all worldwide IT spending on business applications,

infrastructure software and hardware by 2012. Parallels serves this market by helping cloud services

providers increase their bottom line by reducing the costs of providing and supporting these IT services

through automation, delegation and virtualization of their datacenter infrastructure and business

processes. Parallels also helps to increase the top line by enabling scalable reseller business models

and facilitating the addition of new services to a provider’s portfolio.

Parallels enables consumers and businesses of all sizes to have a rich and productive laptop or desktop computing experience by permitting them to run multiple operating systems and applications

simultaneously. In addition to desktop productivity, Parallels helps businesses to reduce their total cost of ownership (including management, licensing, power, etc.) of their server hardware by enabling them to obtain IT services through external cloud services providers.

Parallels’ Primary Offerings Include

 Automation – end-to-end cloud services OSS/BSS automation platform for hosters and cloud services providers as well as integrated hosting Control Panel, Billing and SiteBuilder suite for smaller services providers and/or a complete SMB server solution.

 Server Virtualization – powerful, integrated hypervisor- and container-based virtualization solutions for bare metal, Windows, Linux and Mac systems targeting cloud services providers and enterprises.

 Desktop Virtualization – addressing the consumer and business enterprise market, these products enable a single desktop, laptop, or workstation to simultaneously run multiple operating systems.

According to IDC, with a solid product portfolio and strong expertise in virtualization and automation, Parallels is one of the most interesting players in this space. Parallels’ datacenter automation products are uniquely positioned to address the IT service provider market and at the same time Parallels

possesses a healthy business in the desktop virtualization market. Parallels is poised to take advantage of the growth opportunity accelerated by the economic downturn where the needs for optimized

computing are stronger than ever.

Introducing Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal

Powerful, award-winning hypervisor technology runs multiple operating systems and their applications on a single server complete with comprehensive web-based management and automation.

Parallels Server Bare Metal is an OS independent hypervisor solution that leverages the award-winning

technologies of Parallels desktop virtualization products running on over 2 million machines today. Simple

to install and simple to administer, Parallels Server Bare Metal is a cost-effective, fully supported server

virtualization solution. Parallels Server Bare Metal runs a broad range of operating systems and

onto a physical server, the hypervisor partitions the computer into virtual machines, allowing users to run a range of operating systems concurrently on the same hardware. The product leverages Parallels’

powerful FastLane architecture offering a highly scalable approach which provides each virtual machine up to 12 vCPUs, 64 GB vRAM, 2TB vHDDs and 16 vNICs to power through resource intensive

applications.

What Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal Can Do For You

 Define the hardware resources of the servers that each virtual machine will get, including CPU, RAM, Drive size, and network card

 Allow multi-path access to High Availability SAN storage

 Allow to connect to SAN via iSCSI and Fiber Channel and connect to NAS

 Allow each VM to have its own IP and Mac address

 Allow back-up and restore of machines to/from different hardware

 Provide a migration tool an administrator can use to move and restart a VM from one physical server to another for any reason including when a host server is failing

 Restart a VM or service in the VM if something goes wrong with the VM

 Completely isolate the VM's so they do not communicate with each other to help prevent one VM security vulnerability to affect another VM

 Allow more than one network connection to a VM to permit distribution of network traffic among the different connections

 Create VLANS in the VM's

 Ability to convert VM's created in a different virtualized environment (V2V)

 Start, Stop, re-start, suspend VM's

 Assign or adjust priority of usage for hardware resources (CPU, Disk I/O Priority) while a VM is in operation

 Create VM's with more than logical CPU, in other words, a multi-processor VM

 Automate application updates for Parallels software application, but not individual applications inside

VM’s

Empower Users with Parallels Virtual Automation

Our web-based management console, Parallels Virtual Automation (PVA), enables users to do the following:

 Create virtual switches for VM's in the same host in order to allow complex networks to be built in the same physical host without need of a physical interface

 Allow the deployment of new VM's via templates already created in serves ready for consolidation

 Monitor the resource usage of each host and all VM's via a graphic interface

 Integrate with Active Directory or OpenLDAP in order to control permissions and access the management interface

 Ability to monitor and alert when pre-determined resources have reached certain limits via email, script or traps SNMP

 Centrally monitor and control all the VM's and servers and defined groups of servers

 Allow administrative access to users or user groups to a defined group of servers

 Allow at least two connections to the virtualized infrastructure for each license of the software purchase

Technical Requirements

OS supported for Virtual Machines

 Windows 2003 Standard, Enterprise and Web

 Windows 2008 Server

 Linux Debian Etch or superior

 Linux Red Hat 5 & higher

 Linux SuSE 11 & higher

Parallels Server Bare Metal Standard Edition can create unique virtual machines in physical machines with x86-64 and EMT64 with the following minimum functionality:

 Install natively on the host server w/o the need of a host OS

 Install in hardware with multi-processors that use multi-core technology

 Install in hardware with processors that have the virtualization extensions

 Natively compatible with 64 bits processors

 Compatible with servers with 128 GB of RAM with 64 GB per virtual machine supported

 Compatible with servers with 8 Gigabit Ethernet ports

 Compatible with servers with 4 Host Bus Adapters

Parallels Server Bare Metal Standard Edition is in the testing phase of becoming certified under the Microsoft SVVP Program (Server Virtualization Validation Program)

 Agreement has been signed by Parallels

 Testing and acceptance into the SVVP program is expected to be finalized by March 31

, 2010