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Virtuozzo 7 webinar October 18

Virtuozzo 7 webinar October 18

  Today i was on very cool Virtuozzo 7 webinar (October 18 2016) and it was astonishing!!!

I am using Virtuozzo products since version 4.6 and i see very big potential in Virtuozzo 7 for big hosting company and for little – it think its the most cost-effective solution for VPS and cloud hosting.

One of the great (for me?) features that i was surprised to her (BETA stage?) – Disk encryption ! You can encrypt the data and the backup and the container would be encrypted  🙂 I think ReadyKernel is the second of the greatest things – No more “useless” Reboots !!! 🙂

One more likely the saddest news to hear was – “No more PVA”.  Yes , you are not in the dream… Virtuozzo killing its “baby” for new product that called “Virtuozzo Automator”. Virtuozzo team says that Virtuozzo Automator will have brand new features like LB (Load Balancer) , VPN , Network config and more ….

I remember a great story regarding Plesk Expand server – it was one of the best support hosting panels ever… some day Plesk (Paralles) decide to “kill” this solution and what is happening now is a mess, support department was confused with so many plesk panels…. Couple of years past and now Plesk (Paralles) developed “New Expand” as extension to Plesk platform that do the same thing … . I think the same would be with PVA (i think so…..)   🙂

Virtuozzo 7 Benefits

Virtuozzo 7 combines well-known Systems Container technology, KVM-based virtual machines and software-defined storage in a single solution covered by production support.

Think of Virtuozzo as your virtualization multi-tool: Our unique approach to combining the best virtualization tools and value-added services in a single console is proven to be the best fit for customers that want:

the freedom to choose the best technology for the job

the power to deliver exceptional performance to customers

a knock-your-CFO’s-socks-off ROI

By the Numbers

Virtuozzo VMs outperform CentOS KVM by up to 33%

Virtuozzo Containers™ deliver 40% better performance and 2x better density than most advanced hypervisors

Virtuozzo Storage outperforms Ceph—the most popular open source software-defined storage by 10x or more on identical hardware

24×7 professional support service from a team with 15+ years experience

Virtuozzo 7 webinar invitation

This is a copy of the invitation that was sent by Virtuozzo team:

Virtuozzo 7 – Highlights

  Virtuozzo Containers – whats new in Virtuozzo 7 ?

With system containers™, a single operating system kernel can support multiple isolated virtualized instances instead of just one. Such instances, called containers™, look and feel like a real server from your customer’s point of view.

Key Features

Designed to run a full Linux OS and any distribution

Low memory overhead; advanced memory management

Flexible and fine-grained CPU and memory management

Secure by default

Benefits

Better performance and density compared to VMs

Containerize any application with native performance

Support for container™ management through libvirt and OpenStack

By the Numbers

60% better performance compared to VM

2x greater density compared to VM

Deploy hundreds of containers on a standard dual-CPU x86 server

Zero overhead costs

Fraction-of-a-second startup time

Measuring System Container™ Density

This graph depicts a density test comparison of CentOS 7 KVM and Virtuozzo 7 Containers™. Each virtualization solutions was loaded by a number of clients sending requests to every server at fixed rate. While adding more and more servers, we monitored the average response time and stopped the test when it reached the preset limit (200ms). As you can see, CentOS 7 KVM was able to handle 130 servers simultaneously, while Virtuozzo Containers™ can run more than 200 servers with the identical performance.

  Figure 1. Performance comparison of Windows VMs running on CentOS KVM and Virtuozzo

Virtuozzo 7 Hypervisor – whats new ?

Key Features

Improved density with AMM, auto ballooning, and Kernel same-page merging

KVM/QEMU cache optimizations

Set of kernel patches improving performance

Windows drivers with Hyper-V enlightenments

Powerful guest tools

Benefits

Proven backup solution shipped by default

Reduced overall maintenance

Low cost

Software-defined storage runs together with compute

Upstream compatible and commitment to open standards

By the Numbers

100% upstream KVM compatible

Up to 40% better performance results for latest Linux and Windows OS

30% higher density than standard KVM

24×7 highly skilled professional support

Performance Test: CentOS7 KVM vs Virtuozzo 7 Hypervisor

This graph depicts a SPECvirt performance test of Linux workloads for CentOS 7 KVM versus the Virtuozzo 7 Hypervisor. Tiles represent a set of workloads. A single tile deploys a number of different workloads, each of them generating output transactions. Here we measure the output total of all transactions.

  Virtuozzo 7 Storage – whats new ?

Key Features

High availability, high performance

Low-cost scalability up to multiple petabytes and hundreds of nodes in a single cluster

Persistent, production-ready storage for Docker

Block storage optimized for big files; S3-compatible object storage

Web-based UI management

Benefits

Use your existing hardware

Flexibility to deploy containers and VMS

Fast performance

Zero downtime

Live server migration in user space

Eliminate the need for costly, special-purpose storage devices

VIRTUOZZO STORAGE VS. CEPH I/O Performance Comparison: Link

Ceph vs Virtuozzo Storage

This graph compares sequential read, sequential write, random read, and random write operations between Virtuozzo Storage and open source storage solution Ceph.

Need Persistent Storage for Your Docker Containers? Try Virtuozzo Storage for Docker. >>

        Value-Added Services

On top of virtualization, Virtuozzo offers a helpful suite of value-added services right “out of the box”, keeping your total cost of ownership low.

24×7 first-class support

Rebootless kernel updates with ReadyKernel

Advanced memory management enabling better density without performance impact

Application catalog powered by Bitnami

Additional Docker support including new storage plugin

  About Virtuozzo

Virtuozzo pioneered the first commercially available container technology, and continues to innovate in areas ranging from industry-leading virtualized object storage to cloud-optimized Linux distributions to groundbreaking container migration technologies. Major service providers worldwide rely on Virtuozzo virtualization for a scalable and secure service platform. Virtuozzo is a contributor to many open source projects including OpenVZ, CRIU™, KVM, Docker, OpenStack and the Linux kernel, and maintains partnerships with Docker, OpenStack, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Container Initiative, and The Linux Foundation. Virtuozzo is headquartered in Seattle and has major offices in London and Moscow. www.virtuozzo.com.

  Resources and More Information about Virtuozzo Storage

Virtuozzo 7 Datasheet

Virtuozzo 7 Storage Datasheet

Virtuozzo Storage vs Ceph White Paper

Blog Post: Virtuozzo Storage for Docker

      Ref. info virtuozzo

Thats it ! Virtuozzo 7 webinar October 18 was GRAET ! For the first look i was impressed for the good side !