Parallels Server beta available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux powered servers
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 9, 2008 at 7:22am
SWsoft (soon to be renamed Parallels) has released the beta version of Parallels Server, the company’s hypervisor-powered server virtualization solution. Parallels Server is the first virtualization solution designed to run on Apple hardware, including Mac Pros and Xserves, and the first to run multiple copies of Mac OS X Server 10.5 (“Leopard”) on a single Mac.
Parallels Server also runs on any x86 or 64-bit server running Windows or Linux. It can be installed using Parallels lightweight hypervisor, in which virtual machines run in tandem with a primary operating system, or “bare-metal,” in which virtual machines run completely independently and aren’t dependent on a host operating system to function properly. Userscan choose to load Parallels Server in lightweight hypervisor mode or bare-metal mode at installation. Parallels Server is the only virtualization product of any kind to afford users the flexibility to choose their implementation at install, according to the folks at SWsoft.
The software supports any combination of more than 50 different guest operating systems including Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 “Longhorn”, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris, simultaneously, in isolated virtual machines. Customers running Parallels Server on Apple hardware also have the option of running Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine.
SWsoft’s Parallels Server is the first server virtualization software solution on Intel-based Apple hardware supporting Mac OS X Server, including Apple’s new Xserve and Mac Pro lines, which were announced Tuesday. With Parallels Server, Mac OS X Server administrators will be able to run workloads such as SQL Server and Exchange Server at the same time as their Mac OS X Server applications.
Integration with Virtuozzo Containers and Tools Parallels Server joins SWsoft’s Virtuozzo Containers as an additional SWsoft server virtualization technology. The company will soon extend its virtualization management tools to manage both Virtuozzo Containers and Parallels virtual machines, says Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft.
Parallels Server is currently in private beta testing, and the company is accepting registrations for new beta testers. For details about participating in the beta program, go here.
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