Parallels Server for Mac Beta

Parallels Server for Mac is a powerful and easy-to-use bare metal hypervisor solution for server virtualization that provides the best value for cost conscious organizations seeking to standardize and optimize their IT infrastructures.

Built on Parallels’ bare metal hypervisor architecture and award-winning hypervisor-based virtualization technology, Parallels Server for Mac enables organizations to:

  • Standardize server hardware platforms

  • Effectively consolidate server resources

  • Consolidate and support legacy OSes and applications

  • Streamline server and application deployment, maintenance and management

  • Simplify software testing and development

  • Optimize server and application availability

A hardware-ready solution, organizations can leverage Parallels Server for Mac to seamlessly standardize on the Mac platform and to integrate into existing IT infrastructures. Parallels Server is designed to optimize the performance of virtualized systems and applications and provides cost-effective approaches to protect data and reduce the costs and complexities of IT infrastructures.

Powerful

Easy To Use

Best Value

Parallels Server for Mac is a hardware optimized hypervisor-based server virtualization solution that delivers performance, reliability and flexibility.

  • New! Supports virtualizing Mac OS X Leopard Server in a virtual machine running on a Mac OS X Leopard Server platform.

  • Support for Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT-x) hardware acceleration technologies

  • 32- and 64-bit platform and guest OS support

  • 4-way guest SMP and multi-core CPU support

  • Unlimited host memory support

  • Command line tool and scripting language support

Easy to deploy, easy to use and easy to manage, Parallels Server for Mac offers a seamless user experience to help maximize IT administration efficiency.

  • Easily share files and folders between Mac host and guest Windows VMs with Shared Folder

  • Multi-administrator access to VMs

  • Integrated Parallels Updater for automatic updates

  • Flexible virtual device support

  • VM autorun boot option

  • Open API and SDK for management extensibility

  • Localization support for multiple languages

Many of today’s server virtualization solutions are designed from a top-down approach mostly suited for large enterprises. Parallels Server for Mac is designed to be a cost-effective solution that is full-featured and with an integrated management toolset to fit the needs of today’s cost-conscious IT organizations and enterprise departments. Parallels Server for Mac provides the essential management toolset to help IT professionals to do their jobs effectively and to keep business running as usual.

  • First server virtualization solution for the Mac platform

  • Available with integrated management toolset and console for less than $1K

  • Integrated Parallels Management Console, to centralized manage multiple servers and VMs across platforms

  • Integrated Parallels Transporter for P2V and V2V migration

  • Integrated Parallels Tools for guest Windows and Linux VMs

  • Parallels Tools Auto Updates

  • Integrated Parallels Image Tool to resize VMs

  • Integrated Parallels Explorer to browse VMs

  • Integrated Parallels Mounter to mount disk volumes

NOTE:
Support for Mac OS X in VM environment is now available!

Support:
This latest beta software version is still in the testing stage and is not currently available for the general Parallels Technical Support.

More information:

Product datasheet, including features and benefits (PDF – 278 Kb)

Awards:

MacWorld Expo 2008 -
“Best of Show”.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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