User`s guide

Installing Parallels Virtual Automation 7
Parallels Virtual Automation
Infrastructure
With Parallels Virtual Automation, you can easily deploy an effectively functioning
virtual infrastructure that can help you to significantly reduce your costs in terms of time
and resources. While Parallels software virtualization products enable you to create
complex formations of virtual environments, you may find it hard to manage these
formations using different management tools. However, with Parallels Virtual
Automation you can handle this challenging task with ease. Since Parallels Virtual
Automation supports the whole set of the Parallels products, you can use it with any of
its virtualization solutions, be it Parallels Virtuozzo Containers or Parallels Server virtual
machines.
Before you start installing Parallels Virtual Automation, you should learn about its
components and their role in the management process. Parallels Virtual Automation
consists of several components and an auxiliary tool. The main Parallels Virtual
Automation components are:
Component Where to Install Description
PVA Management Server
On any clean physical server
without any software
virtualization technology, or
on a Container.*
The physical server with
PVA Management Server
component installed is called
Master Server.
This component ensures the
communication between the slave
physical servers and their virtual
environments.
PVA Control Center
It is a part of the PVA Management
Server component and is always
installed together with it. Thus, you are
able to interact with the remote physical
servers and have means to observe
your virtual infrastructure.
It is the PVA front-end that you see in
the browser window after logging in to
Parallels Virtual Automation. When
talking about the Parallels Virtual
A
utomation interface, we are actually
talking about the Control Center
interface.
PVA Agent for Parallels Server
On a dedicated physical
server that has either of the
following software installed:
 Parallels Server 4
Bare Metal, or
 Parallels Server for
Mac.
Such server is also called a
Slave server.
The component ensures the interaction
between this physical server, the Master
Server and your client computer.
Without this component, a physical
server cannot be registered in Master
Server.