User`s guide

C HAPTER 1

Introduction

Parallels Virtual Automation is a flexible and easy-to-use administration tool designed

for managing physical servers with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Server

Bare Metal, or Parallels Server for Mac software. With Parallels Virtual Automation, you

can create groups of physical servers and perform both collective and individual

administration operations on these groups. Moreover, you can manage the virtual

environments residing on the registered physical servers: their productivity and

resources, system tasks and processes, configuration, and much more. To work with

the registered physical servers and their virtual environments, you will need a standard

Web browser running on any platform.

This guide is aimed at a wide range of users who are new to Parallels Virtual

Automation or just want to make sure they are doing everything right.

You can read more about Parallels Virtual Automation and its functionality in Parallels

Virtual Automation Administrator's Guide.

In This Chapter

Getting Help .............................................................................................................4

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Getting Help

Parallels Virtual Automation offers several options for accessing necessary information:

Parallels Virtual Automation documentation

 Parallels Virtual Automation Administrator's Guide. This document contains extensive

information about the product, its usage and troubleshooting. To access the

PDF version of the document, go to the Support link in the left pane and then

click the Downloads pane. You can download any document of the Parallels

Virtual Automation documentation bundle from the Parallels website.

 Parallels Virtual Automation Installation Guides for Linux/Bare Metal, Windows, and Mac

OS X. These documents contain extensive information on system requirements

for physical computers and instructions how to install Parallels Virtual

Automation components on them.

 Getting Started With Parallels Virtual Automation. This document contains the basic

information how to install, launch and manage Parallels Virtual Automation.

 Parallels Power Panel User's Guide. This document contains extensive information

about the Power Panel application.