[Users] Cloud Storage for OpenVZ Containers

[Kirill Korotaev]

On 25 Jan 2014, at 07:38, Rene C. <openvz at dokbua.com> wrote:

> I don't understand - it says "cloud storage for openvz" but in the
> documentation it says:
> 
> "Parallels Cloud Storage is available as a TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW ONLY for
> OpenVZ users and can't be licensed for production.
> To unlock for running in production, you should upgrade to a full
> Parallels Cloud Server product (see below)."
> 
> So can this be used with openvz or is it necessary to change to
> parallels software in order to use it - in which case it isn't realy
> "for openvz containers”.

Rene, you are right, sorry for a bit misleading subject. It’s technology preview only for openvz and requires upgrade to Parallels Cloud Server for higher volumes of data stored.
Plz contact me if you are interested in licensing it for OpenVZ.

> 
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Kirill Korotaev <dev at parallels.com> wrote:
>> openvz.org and Parallels are pleased to announce availability of Parallels Cloud Storage technology preview for all openvz users!
>> 
>> Parallels Cloud Storage is a new Software Defined Storage solution (also known as virtual SAN) which makes it possible to build a scalable distributed storage for running your Containers on commodity hardware and SATA drives with performance comparable to real HW SAN storage. It provides strong consistency semantics required for running VMs, Containers and iSCSI targets, has built-in automatic data replication and recovery, supports HDDs and nodes hotplug, is highly available and scales to Petabytes.
>> 
>> Virtualization running on top of Parallels Cloud Storage gains multiple advantages like high availability, fast live migration across nodes (w/o storage migration), benefiting from all HDDs performance potential and utilizing otherwise idle HDDs in the cluster, no capacity limitations, grow on demand and so on.
>> 
>> See more details at https://openvz.org/Parallels_Cloud_Storage. Your feedback is very much appreciated!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> OpenVZ & Parallels teams
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