Parallels Virtual Automation

PVA 4.6.3 for windows Update 2 (pva-release 4.6-1734)

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:52:00 +0400

1. What's Included in This Update

This update for Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.3 for Windows provides a number of improvements and bug fixes.

2. Problem Description

This update contains the following new features:

- A vzarestore option for restoring Containers from backups with new Container IDs.

- The quiet/no-progress option for vzmigrate, vzabackup, and vzarestore.

This update contains fixes for the following issues:

- VE migration speed is too low (PVA-33385)

- Debug level messages recorded at LogLevel3 (PVA-33312)

- Uptime information can be wrong for Windows-based nodes (PVA-33284)

3. Obtaining the Update

You can download and install PVA Agent and the Master updates using the "pva setup" utility included in the Parallels Virtual Automation distribution.

For more information on Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 builds, releases, and supported virtualization products, please see KB article 112297.

PVA 6.0 Update 1 (pva-release 6.0-2131) is now available!

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:56:00 +0400

1. What's Included in This Update

This update for Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 adds support for PSBM 6.0 Update 1 (6.0.0-928) 115449 and provides a number of bug fixes.

2. Problem Description

This update contains the following new features:

- Support for PCS 6.0 Update 1 (6.0.0-928) 115449
- Increased PVA default backup timeouts

This update contains fixes for the following issues:

- Memory usage limit in Parallels Server settings is limited to 4 digits (PVA-33299)
- PVA logs are being locked by processes (PVA-33272)
- Power Panel throws "500 - Application error" if Container config has no VE_ROOT/VE_PRIVATE parameters defined (PVA-33266)
- PVA doesn't ignore errors from RHN (CLN) plugins (PVA-33246)
- PVA MN (Windows) offline upgrade from 4.6-1510 to 6.0 may fail with an SQL error (PVA-33242)
- vm_overcommit values in samples are not converted properly into the new format after upgrading MN to version 6.0 (PVA-33223)
- Apache errors may appear in PVA CP and PP panels http://kb.parallels.com/en/113198
- High disk I/O numbers reported in PVA MN (PVA-33137)
- Container may lose the disabled state after network settings are changed (PVA-33131)
- Can re-enable a disabled Container from the Power Panel using the restore mode (PVA-33130)
- Acronis backup fails if the Container has a file with the ACL attribute (PVA-33103)
- Cannot restore Container backups if archived file/folder names contain backslashes (PVA-32777)
- Need to improve service status check for Debian-based Containers (PVA-5468)

3. Obtaining the Update

You can download and install PVA Agent and the Master updates using the "pva setup" utility included in the Parallels Virtual Automation distribution.

For more information on Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 builds, releases, and supported virtualization products, please see KB article 112297.

PVA Agent 4.6.3 for windows Update 1 (pva-release 4.6-1727) is now available!

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0400

APPLIES TO:

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Windows 4.6

1. What's Included in This Update

This update for Parallels Virtual Automation Agent 4.6.3 for windows provides a number of bug fixes.

2. Problem Description

This update contains fixes for the following issues:

1. What's Included in This Update

This update for Parallels Virtual Automation Agent 4.6.3 for windows provides a number of bug fixes.

2. Problem Description

This update contains fixes for the following issues:

"vzbackup storage -a C:CustomBackupStorage" backups all CTs (PVA-27898)

Container creation may fail with error msg: 3802 : Error invoking external utility: can't find eid for ctid=xxxx (PVA-32328)

3. Obtaining the Update

You can download and install PVA Agent updates using the "pva setup" utility included in the Parallels Virtual Automation distribution.

For more information on Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 builds, releases, and supported virtualization products, please see KB article 112297.

Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 RTM is now Available!

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:00:00 +0400

Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 RTM is now Available!

APPLIES TO:

Parallels Cloud Server 6.0

Parallels Server Bare Metal 5.0

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.7

Parallels Virtual Automation

Topic:

Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 is an advanced yet easy-to-use administration tool designed for managing groups of physical servers running Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Server Bare Metal, and Parallels

Cloud Server.

New Features and Improvements:

Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 includes the following new features and improvements:

• A daily log rotation mechanism was implemented in Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 to prevent logs eating away at the server disk space.

• Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 can manage backups stored outside of a server group. To manage such backups, the servers must be standalone servers, not belonging to any group.

• You can open a VNC console session to Containers from inside Parallels Virtual Automation. VNC support for virtual machines has also been improved to eliminate the necessity of configuring their Remote Console options.

• You can specify the maximum number of disk input and output operations per second a Virtual Environment is not allowed to exceed.

• Parallels Virtual Automation supports using yum repositories to update servers with Parallels Cloud Server 6.0.

• You can send "magic" SysRq key combinations to a virtual machine while working with it in the VNC console mode.

• Parallels Virtual Automation now supports Google Chrome version 22.x and newer.

• The list of Parallels Virtual Automation localizations now includes Korean and Polish.

For more information, refer to the documentation available on site.

PVA 4.6.4 Update 4 (pva-release 4.6-1879) is now available!

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:00:00 +0400

APPLIES TO:

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6

1. Topic:

This update for Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.4 adds support for PSBM 5.0 Update 6 (TU-1247) 114856 and provides a number of bug fixes.

2. Problem Description:

This update contains the following new features:

Support for PSBM 5.0 Update 6 (TU-1247)
Error frames and task details frames now linked to the Knowledgebase

This update contains fixes for the following issues:

    Cannot create virtual environment template (#PVA-33110)
    The CPU Limit percentage text field only allows three-digit numbers (#PVA-33109)
    Starting a restored Container with PPA fails with the error message "Not enough parameters to start the Container" (#PVA-33034)
    In PBAS, provisioning of a container with HP "VSwap only resource management" fails with the error message "fork() failed: Cannot allocate memory" Error: Unable to start the Container" (#PVA-32975)
    [FireFox] The search field is missing from Help (#PVA-32957)
    [IE 9] The search bar and table navigation panel do not work on the Hardware Node > Container Software tab (#PVA-32945)
    Scheduled weekly backup tasks are run twice (#PVA-32943)
    Incorrect values in the "Free memory" cell on the Container > Resources Overview subtab (#PVA-32942)
    PVA Administration Guide improvements (#PVA-32941)
    Acronis backup fails on Containers with 100k or more inodes due to insufficient disk space in /tmp (KB article 113802 ) (#PVA-32940)
    Container caches not included in memory usage calculation (#PVA-32931)
    PVA Agent may fail to restart due to temporarily insufficient node disk space (#PVA-32930)
    Acronis backup may fail and produce a core dump on backup start in EvaluateMountPoints (#PVA-32908)
    Creating a VM backup from PVA may fail with vzp_backup_deserializer segfaulting in (anonymous namespace)::History::getObsolete (#PVA-32898)

3. Obtaining the Update:

You can download and install PVA Agent and the Master updates using the "pva setup" utility included in the Parallels Virtual Automation distribution.

For more information on Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 builds, releases, and supported virtualization products, please see the KB article 112297.

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.4 update 3

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0400

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.4 update 2

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400

PVA 4.6 builds, releases, and supported virtualization products

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0400

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.3

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Released build: 1722
Supported Products: PVCfW 4.6+, PVCfL 4.6+
Installation instructions:

Auto-installer:
Windows
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/pva-setup-deploy-gui.exe
* In case of Agent upgrade you might need to change repo: Run auto-installer, go to 'Configure' and change repo to
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/repo/agent
** In case of Agent upgrade run Auto-installer twice, first time it will update pva installer
Linux
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/pva-setup-deploy.x86_64
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/pva-setup-deploy.i386

For PVA agent x86_64:
wget http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/pva-setup-deploy.x86_64
chmod +x pva-setup-deploy.x86_64
./pva-setup-deploy.x86_64 -d /tmp/pva --extract
cd /tmp/pva
./pva-setup -r http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/repo/agent --install

For PVA agent i386:
wget http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/pva-setup-deploy.i386
chmod +x pva-setup-deploy.i386
./pva-setup-deploy.i386 -d /tmp/pva --extract
cd /tmp/pva
./pva-setup -r http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/repo/agent --install

Tarzip:
Windows
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/downloads/windows/i386/pva_agent-windows-i386-4.6-1722.zip
C:>unzip pva_agent-windows-i386-4.6-1722.zip
C:>cd pva_setup
C:>> pva-setup.exe -r http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/repo/agent --install

Linux
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/downloads/linux/x86_64/pva_agent-linux-x86_64-4.6-1722.tar.gz
http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/downloads/linux/i386/pva_agent-linux-i386-4.6-1722.tar.gz

untar and run pva-setup, check appropriate repo or use unattended
./pva-setup -r http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6.3/repo/agent --install

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0400

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 has been published

PVA 4.6 auto-installers:
Linux i386: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva-setup-deploy.x86_64
Linux x64: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva-setup-deploy.i386
Windows: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva-setup-deploy-gui.exe

PVA 4.6 Management Server distributives:
Linux i386: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva_mn-linux-i386.tar.gz
Linux x64: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva_mn-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Windows: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva_mn-windows-i386.zip

PVA 4.6 Slave distributives:
Linux i386: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva_agent-linux-i386.tar.gz
Linux x64: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva_agent-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Windows: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva_agent-windows-i386.zip
Mac OS X: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/pva-setup-deploy.dmg

New features and improvements
* Integration with Parallels Server for Mac - Now it is possible to register Parallels Server for Mac physical servers in Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 and manage them the same way as Parallels Server Bare Metal servers.
* VNC console support for PSfM virtual machines - You can manage your virtual machines, residing on PSfM physical servers, via integrated Virtual Network Computing Console.
* PSfM virtual machine cloning and converting - Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 allows you to clone your virtual machines to a complete copy, to clone or convert the virtual machine to a template, and to store these templates on PSfM physical servers.
* Power Panel support for PSfM virtual machines - Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 supports running Power Panel on Mac Snow Leopard operating system.
* Physical server to virtual machine migration - In Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6, you can migrate a physical server to a virtual machine residing on a PSfM or Parallels Server Bare Metal physical server.
* Backups for PSfM virtual machines - Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 allows you to create backups of PSfM virtual machines and store them on PSfM and Parallels Server Bare Metal physical servers.
* Virtual Networks for PSfM virtual machines - Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 supports setting up virtual networks for PSfM virtual machines.
* Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 support - PVA 4.6 supports installing Management component on Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 operating system.
* Support of Parallels Containers for Windows 4.6 - use Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 to take full advantage of managing physical servers with Parallels Containers for Windows 4.6.
* Upgrade from Parallels Infrastructure Manager 4.0 to Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 - By using Upgrade Automation tool and performing simple upgrade instructions, you can upgrade the 4.0 version of your Master and Slave physical servers to the PVA 4.6 version.
* Support of Linux RHEL 5.4 for PVA Master Server - Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6 Management component can be installed on Linux RHEL 5.4 operating system.

Full release notes available at: http://download.pa.parallels.com/pva/4.6/doc/Release_Notes_for_Parallels_Virtual_Automation.pdf

Parallels Virtual Automation

PVA 4.6.3 for windows Update 2 (pva-release 4.6-1734)

PVA 6.0 Update 1 (pva-release 6.0-2131) is now available!

PVA Agent 4.6.3 for windows Update 1 (pva-release 4.6-1727) is now available!

​Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 RTM is now Available!

PVA 4.6.4 Update 4 (pva-release 4.6-1879) is now available!

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.4 update 3

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.4 update 2

PVA 4.6 builds, releases, and supported virtualization products

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6.3

Parallels Virtual Automation 4.6

Parallels Virtual Automation 6.0 RTM is now Available!