Virtuozzo OS Server Virtualization: Internal and Commercial Hosting

IT organizations and businesses need to provide a simple, manageable infrastructure for offering hosted applications and data. Virtuozzo is perfect for hosting with its lean architecture and complete security and isolation, it provides a cost effective multi-tenant solution. Virtuozzo and VE administrators have complete toolsets to provision, manage, monitor and update virtual servers and environments.

Service providers have deployed Virtuozzo successfully in the following services and configurations:

TrueVPS

TrueVPS is a service configured at 30+ virtualized partitions per server packaged with subset of low-end dedicated server services, typically priced well below dedicated server packages. More...
Customer Benefits

  * Significantly cheaper than dedicated services
  * Easier to manage than dedicated servers with administrative and recovery tools
  * Functionally equal to dedicated servers (may offer administrative or root access)

Provider Benefits

  * Much more profitable than dedicated services
  * Isolation between customers reduces risk associated with shared services
  * Prepares customers for dedicated or higher end services and creates a higher barrier to exit

Best Practices

  * Keep competitive price level
  * Bundle a control panel
  * Offer Windows and Linux
  * Offer some performance guarantees on low-level resources such as bandwidth and hard drive
  * Creative marketing if possible can really help adoption

Split Dedicated

Split-Dedicated is a dedicated server provisioned with virtualization and management interfaces. It is typically offered to a resale channel or end customers. More...

Customer Benefits

  * Utilizes server resources better
  * Few applications or panels on 1 server
  * Allows resellers to sell other virtualization based services

Provider Benefit

  * Better offering for resellers
  * Not competing with resellers
  * More revenue per server

Best Practices

  * Offer as another OS option
  * Utilize the browser based interface for simple management tool deployment
  * Control Panel packaging for resellers

Dynamic (Dedicated) Servers (DS/DDS)

Dynamic (Dedicated) Servers (DS/DDS) are dedicated-like virtualized services which are packaged and positioned as a better alternative to low-end dedicated servers and sold at similar prices. More...

Customer Benefits

  * Complete self-management with a full set of administrative tools
  * Easy upgrade for scalability
  * May burst to available resources on the server, so service guarantees are the minimum
  * Better availability, hardware is typically deployed with these more advanced services

Provider Benefits

  * Infrastructure cost savings HW, Electricity, Datacenter
  * Automatic provisioning and management
  * Easy upsell and migration

Other

  * Both Linux and Windows
  * Recovery and Control Panels
  * VZP2V tools
  * Backup/Restore options
  * Specifically sized, packaged and priced

Split-Shared

Split-Shared services split shared hosting accounts or services running on a single server into several VEs for manageability and isolation. More...

Customer Benefits

  * Higher uptime
  * Predictable performance
  * Opportunity for more services for the same price

Provider Benefits

  * Higher density - no risk of "crazy" scripts
  * Convenient backup and restore
  * Migration for maintenance and upgrades

Best Practices

  * Really very straightforward
  * P2V tools could be used to migrate

ManagedVPS

ManagedVPS is a fully managed VPS with a control panel without default root access, enabling a customer to take a higher level of service without any associated technical skills. More...

Customer Benefits

  * Guaranteed SLA
  * Upgrade SLA or to VPS/DS/DDS
  * Customized application set
  * Additional managed services
  * Potential for Root control level

Provider Benefits

  * Higher ARPU/customer
  * Fully integrated and automated offering
  * Never leaving to dedicated

Best Practices

  * Offer for shared customers and move to VPS with the same control panel

Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure provisions any infrastructure server as a virtualized server. More...

Customer Benefits

  * Lower costs resulted from saved $$$ and improved service levels by provider

Provider Benefits

  * Standardized infrastructure
  * Decreases cost and enables the purchase of better and more reliable servers
  * Convenient provisioning re-provisioning, backup, restore
  * Migration, monitoring

Other

  * There is no downside
  * VZP2V could be used for easy migration