IT Organizations are using virtualization more and more every day. Within the next five years most datacenters will be completely virtualized, but using one approach to virtualization cannot meet all of the requirements in the datacenter. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the next generation of virtualization. The world's leading OS virtualization solution, Virtuozzo Containers creates isolated containers on a single physical server and OS instance enabling organizations to create a more flexible, scalable, easily managed IT infrastructure. With three to ten times the consolidation ratios, a native performance architecture and the best manageability, Virtuozzo is meeting the needs of today’s virtualized datacenters.
IT Infrastructure Challenges
Servers are becoming increasingly complex to manage and difficult to control. Computing resources continue to increase in power, and 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, but organizations that have used hardware virtualization have now created OS sprawl. The daily management and operations functions are daunting, and adding in business continuity requirements, the costs and complexity are overwhelming. While hardware remains a considerable cost component, software and management continue to be the largest cost considerations, and few tools provide the management and automation to ease the burden on IT departments.
Virtuozzo Containers Solution: A Different Virtualization Approach
Virtuozzo Containers empowers IT organizations to meet the increasing demands on IT infrastructure and management. Virtuozzo Containers creates isolated partitions or virtual environments on a single physical server and OS instance to utilize hardware, software, data center and management effort with maximum efficiency. Intelligent partitioning divides a server into as many as hundreds of VEs with full server functionality. Complete isolation ensures that the VEs are secure and have full functional, fault and performance isolation. Dynamic resource allocation of key system resources such as CPU, memory, network, disk and I/O enables near real-time changes.
Virtuozzo Containers’s OS virtualization solution has higher efficiency and manageability, making it the best solution for organizations concerned with containing the IT infrastructure and maximizing resource utilization. Virtuozzo Containers’s complete set of management tools and unique architecture makes it the perfect solution for easily maintaining, monitoring and managing virtualized server resources for consolidation and business continuity configurations.
