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

Detailed listing of all features

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