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Parallels Infrastructure Manager is designed for Hardware Node administrators. It features the ability to manage a group of Hardware Nodes, and the Containers residing on them, using a standard Web browser running on any platform. The list of supported browsers is given below:
Although other browsers will most likely work, only those listed above have been extensively tested for compatibility with Parallels Infrastructure Manager.
After Parallels Infrastructure Manager has been installed, you can register available Nodes with it. Registered Nodes can be managed by an administrator using the Infrastructure Manager interface.
As Nodes are registered with Infrastructure Manager, they form a group of Nodes (different terms may be used - Node Group, Group Nodes, Infrastructure Manager Nodes, Nodes registered in Parallels Infrastructure Manager). Collective administration can be performed on a group of Nodes, such as:
Infrastructure Manager users are managed by the administrator. An administrator can add and remove users, and set user access privileges. A user's access privileges determines what operations a user can (and can't) perform on a registered Container.
Virtuozzo Containers software needs to be installed on a Hardware Node to enable the Hardware Node, and the Containers residing on the Hardware Node, to be managed using Infrastructure Manager. The Virtuozzo Containers software can be installed on Windows 2003 Server and Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 7, etc.) operating systems. Most of the Infrastructure Manager principles are the same, or similar, for both operating systems.
The following operations can be performed on registered hardware Nodes, and the Containers hosted on the registered Nodes, using Infrastructure Manager's Web interface:
Set up a Container firewall;