Parallels Infrastructure Manager Interface Overview

The Parallels Infrastructure Manager interface has been designed to let the Virtuozzo Hardware Node administrator quickly perform all possible tasks through an intuitive navigation system.

The main components the Parallels Infrastructure Manager interface consists of are:

• The left menu frame listing and allowing to access all your Hardware Node(s) and Container(s) and the main types of operations to be performed on them with the help of Infrastructure Manager;
• The toolbar on top of the right frame allowing you to perform on your Hardware Nodes and Containers the actions most frequently called for in your routine management work and, when necessary, a few more buttons allowing to perform additional actions on the objects listed in the content part of the right frame (Container backups, packages updates, etc.);
• The content part on the right frame displaying the currently accessed Hardware Nodes or Containers, the key information (their statuses, configuration, etc.) and links to advanced actions.
• The Tasks pane at the bottom of the right frame allowing you to view all the operations recently finished and running at the moment, their start times, the objects they are applied to, their statuses, progress information and other details. The pane is minimized by default. To expand it click Tasks at the bottom of the screen.

The actual left menu appearance can be changed by pressing any of the following buttons placed on the bottom:

• Infrastructure - turns the left menu into a list of your Hardware Nodes and Containers organized the way you want it to be;
• Logical View - looks the same way as the Infrastructure menu, the only difference being the Containers that can be distributed between all your Hardware Nodes no matter what Nodes they are hosted by physically; (screen shot)
• Management - shows only the Workflow, Updates, Scheduler, Alerts & Events, Tasks, and Support links on the left menu;
• Setup - makes the left menu show only the Network, Backups, Licensing, Security, and Container Samples links;
• Clicking on the small folder icon makes the left menu display all the above as a tree.

The uppermost element on the Infrastructure-oriented left menu is the Infrastructure link. If expanded, it displays your Virtuozzo physical structure (that is, a hierarchical tree with Hardware Nodes as its upper levels and the Containers hosted on them as lower levels), if you have already designed one, as suggested below, and the default Datacenter link if you have not. Each of the Hardware Nodes and Containers that make up your Virtuozzo infrastructure displays its name on the Infrastructure-oriented left menu which, if clicked on, leads to its dashboard.

The logical view enabled on the Infrastructure Manager left menu displays the screen allowing you to create folders to contain the objects physically belonging to different levels - thus, in such a folder you can place Containers hosted on different Hardware Nodes.

Both logical and physical representations of your Virtuozzo infrastructure allows you to create folders to further collate the objects it consists of. You may, for example, devise and simulate a physical datacenter: create a folder called Datacenter, then create in the Datacenter folder several Rooms, divide each Room into Cages, and, finally, "mount" Racks where you want them to be.

While the actual appearance of the Infrastructure Manager interface content part on the right frame is dictated by the tag opened at the moment, there are always two main operational levels: the Containers level and the Hardware Nodes level that determine its overall appearance and the available options. Both levels afford to perform operations on a single Container or Hardware Node, as well as multiple operations. Each time you click on a Datacenter, or on a Room, a Cage, a Rack on the left Infrastructure Manager menu, - the right pane loads a screen with the Summary, Hardware Nodes, Containers, Templates, Backups, and Security tabs, the Summary tab opened by default.

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