Organizing Virtuozzo Infrastructure

If the Virtuozzo Group Management functionality is enabled by your Virtuozzo license, Parallels Infrastructure Manager allows you to organize the multitude of registered Hardware Nodes and existing Containers in such a way that

• all of them present a logical and easily manageable structure (with as many levels as you like);
• the other Virtuozzo objects, like OS, and application templates, and Container backups, are automatically filtered to conform to the current level of the object hierarchy;
• the Parallels Infrastructure Manager security policies can be set up not on the Hardware Node or Container level, but on the level of an arbitrary group of objects, provided these objects are united into a folder.

There are two independent ways to design the Virtuozzo structure organization. They are called Infrastructure and Logical View and presented as top-level elements in the Infrastructure Manager left menu. You can use either one of them or, better, both at once, as their functions are different:

The Infrastructure view allows you to display the physical organization of the Virtuozzo infrastructure. For example, all the Hardware Nodes will sit one level lower than the datacenter, and all the Containers running on a certain Node will be shown under it. You can create your own folders in the Infrastructure group, but you cannot violate the order of nesting objects. As a way to help with the visual representation of physical objects, the folders you create here can also be called Datacenters and Racks.

Logical View allows you to group your Hardware Nodes and Containers in your own way independently of the physical infrastructure. For example, by grouping all the financial department activities under a common 'FinDep' folder, your organization will be able to manage them as a single entity by collectively managing permissions, scheduling backups, applying system updates, and more. Another peculiarity of the logical view is that any Hardware Node or Container may simultaneously appear in any number of folders.

The main operations related to organizing the Virtuozzo infrastructure are available with the top toolbar buttons visible if you are currently located in the Infrastructure/Logical View context (i.e. not in the Hardware Node or Container context). Below are the ways to set about performing these operations.

• adding a folder. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder in which you want to create a new folder. Then, if you are in the Infrastructure context, click the Add New Subfolder button on the top toolbar. In the Logical View context, click the Add to Folder button on the top toolbar, then click New Subfolder.
• renaming a folder. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder you wish to rename. On the top toolbar, click the Manage Folder button, then click Configure.
• moving a folder. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder you wish to move. On the top toolbar, click the Manage Folder button, then click Move.
• deleting a folder. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder you wish to delete. On the top toolbar, click the Manage Folder button, then click Delete.
• including a Hardware Node in a folder. Click on Infrastructure on the left Infrastructure Manager menu and go to the Hardware Nodes tab. Select the Hardware Node(s) you wish to include in a certain folder and click Move on top of the Hardware Nodes table. If you are working with Logical View, the course of actions is a bit different, because any Hardware Node can belong to any number of folders. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder where you wish to include the Hardware Node. Then click the Add to Folder button on the top toolbar, and select Hardware Node.
• including a Container in a folder. In the Infrastructure view, the Containers always go with the Hardware Node on which they are hosted, so you cannot include them separately in folders. In Logical View, any Container can belong to any number of folders. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder where you wish to include the Container. Then click the Add to Folder button on the top toolbar, and select Container.
• moving a Hardware Node or a Container to another folder. These actions do not essentially differ from including these objects in folders, so you should be guided by the explanations given above.
• removing a Hardware Node or a Container from the Infrastructure view. Unregister the corresponding Hardware Node (the Unregister button on the Hardware Nodes tab) or delete the Container (the Delete button on the Containers tab).
• removing a Hardware Node or a Container from a Logical View folder. On the left Infrastructure Manager menu, click the folder from which you wish to delete a Hardware Node/Container, then go to the Hardware Nodes/Containers tab. Select the object(s) you want to remove and click Remove on top of the table.

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