Best Practices for Growing Your VPS and Cloud Server Business

These best practices are the result of our years of experience in providing PVC to our service provider partners, combined with the latest customer and VPS market research and our most recent PVC product improvements. By implementing these best practices, you will be able to establish and grow your VPS business and maximize the revenue per container from your PVC infrastructure. Download PDF

Best Practices for Optimizing Your Linux VPS and Cloud Server Infrastructure

The two most critical factors for the profitability of your VPS business are maximizing density per server and optimizing server configuration and management. By implementing these best practices, you’ll be able to increase the return on your infrastructure investment and maximize your revenue per server, while also offering high quality of service. Download PDF

Best Practices for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux: Using Virtual Swap to Maximize Container Performance

Virtual Swap (VSwap) is an easy-to-use memory management scheme that allows you to limit the maximum amount of memory allocated to a container, dramatically increasing the system’s performance while also increasing its stability. This best practice document provides clear guidance on setting the VSwap parameters and the benefits it provides. Download PDF

Best Practices for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux: Using I/O Limits to Maximize Container Performance

I/O limits provide very granular and powerful controls that help you avoid performance degradation in situations where high disk I/O activities in one container could otherwise impact the performance of other containers on the server. This best practice document will guide you in the best practices for setting I/O limits for any given server, taking all relevant factors into account. Download PDF

Top Ten Server Virtualization Technology Considerations 

A starting point for technology evaluation. This white paper provides an overview of the main technology considerations and differences between hypervisor and OS virtualization solutions. Download PDF

 An Introduction to OS Virtualization and PVC

Operating system-level virtualization with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers empowers organizations increase server density and reduce management overhead. Download PDF

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Analysis: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers vs. Hypervisor Virtualization

Read this complete analysis of virtualization cost components, with researched and documented costs from publicly available total cost of ownership (TCO) resources. Download PDF

Performance Benchmark Comparison: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers vs. Hypervisors

This white paper demonstrates the improved performance of LAMP stack applications running on containers vs. hypervisors. Download PDF

Greener Virtualization

Explores how server virtualization can help data center managers reduce energy consumption by consolidating underutilized servers. Download PDF

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Best Practices: Live Migration

This technical brief describes best practices that allow administrators to limit downtime in live migration of virtual servers across hardware nodes during maintenance and host operating system updates. Learn more

Using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Templates for More Efficient Virtualization Management

A unique product capability that contributes to the operational and management efficiency of the service provider infrastructure. Learn more

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Windows Capacity and Scaling

  Here's your guide to properly plan, set up and monitor your virtual infrastructure to meet applications performance requirements and achieve high services availability. Learn more

Workflow Management

Learn how workflow management features introduced in Parallels Virtuozzo 4.0 achieve a more automated datacenter. Learn more

Parallels Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solution

Parallels Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solution is an integrated desktop solution based on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers technology that provides enterprise-class control and manageability while maintaining the existing end-user experience. Learn more

Parallels VDI Quick Start Guide

A step-by-step description of implementing Parallels Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Parallels VDI) using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and the Quest vWorkspace virtual desktop management suite. Learn more

Virtual Appliances Overview

Virtual appliances are tools for any organization to deploy multiple same-application servers with regularity. Read this white paper to see how virtual appliances enable a much greater level of efficiency, manageability, resource use and flexibility. Learn more

Deploying Application and OS Virtualization with Citrix and PVC

Discover the relationship and potential benefits of blending these two types of virtualization together: application and OS virtualization using Citrix and Parallels Virtuozzo Container. Learn more