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Parallels Plesk Control Panel 9.0Beta Release Webinar
Ravi Pimplaskar, Product Marketing Manager, Service Provider Division
Todd L Crumpler, Sales Development Manager, Service Provider Division
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• Release 9.0 New Features
• What’s in Beta
• Supported Platforms
• Upgrade Strategy
• Licensing
• Q/A
• Webinar Questions can be sent by emailing [email protected]. Please use the word Webinar Question in the subject line.
Agenda
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What’s New in Plesk 9 UI
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New Vista-like skin
New Home Page Elements
Navigation Improvements
Object Context Navigation
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Home Page Elements
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• Improved statistics
• Mostly used commands are presented by icons
• Other commands are available from drop-down menu
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Navigation Improvements
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Improved favorites & last visited pagesEasily accessible from every screen to navigate to needed pages
Searchavailable from every page to fast access to needed objects
New menu itemsfor easy access to important screens of control panel (Mail, Applications, Settings)
Enhanced filtering on object listsNow it’s possible to filter by status, resource usage, ownership and other parameters
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Context Navigation Concept
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• Plesk 9 understands when you are working in a specific context in the object hierarchy of Administrator – Resellers – Clients – Domains
• You enter a context by selecting an appropriate object from the list or by finding it via the Search field in the left navigation bar
• The task page a user is on becomes the context and the home page for any new selection. Work quickly in different domains, clients, resellers, for any context you choose.
• All creation operations work within the current context Account– Executing “Create Domain” from Administrator's Home Page will create a domain for Administrator
– Doing this from a Client’s Home Page you’ll create a domain for this client
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Resellers
DOMAIN
CLIENT
DomainAdministrator
RESELLER
DOMAIN
DomainAdministrator
CLIENT
DOMAIN
DomainAdministrator
CLIENT
DOMAIN
PLESK ADMIN
New Reseller role
•Same functionality as Plesk Admin except for server management
•Ability to have its own Clients and Domains
•Separate billing management
•Customizable look and feel for control panel branding
•New Ability to Oversell Account Resources
•Flexible Resource Management – different reactions to Overuse
•Full API Backward Compatibility Eliminating Upgrade Concerns
PLESK ADMIN
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Easy Account Migration
PLESK ADMIN
PLESK ADMIN
DOMAIN
DomainAdministrator
CLIENT
RESELLER
DomainAdministrator
Existing Clients can be easily migrated to Resellersto get full benefits of the new role
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CLIENT 2
2GB
Resource Management
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• Overselling Resources – Administrators, Resellers, and Clients can now oversell their granted
system resources, which means the total amount of limits distributed to their sub-accounts can exceed their own account limits
• Overusing Resources– Administrator and Reseller can allow their clients exceeding the resource
limits assigned to them
– Notification can be issued before a resource limit is reached
RESELLER
4 GB Disk Space
CLIENT 1
2GB
CLIENT 3
2GB
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Easy Account Migration
PLESK ADMIN
DOMAIN
CLIENT
PLESK ADMIN
DOMAIN
CLIENTCLIENT
DomainAdministrator
RESELLER RESELLER
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Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog• Browse through applications available on APS Publishing site
• Convenient grouping by application types
• Flexible search criteria
• Check for applications updates
• Install selected applications on Plesk server
• Push applications into Clients’ application pools
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CLIENT’SAPPLICATION
POOL
APPLICATION VAULT
Domain
Domain
APS CATALOG
Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog
Administrator browses applications grouped
by categories on APS Publishing site.
Selects desired applications and
downloads them to server Application
Vault.
Administrator manages Application Vault by assigning application
access to the Resellers and Clients.
Assigned applications show up in clients’ Application Pools
Clients select applications from
their own Application Pools and install
them on Web sites.
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• PHP over CGI/FastCGI– Faster execution of PHP scripts
– Safe execution of PHP scripts
– Choice of PHP version (Windows only)
• lighttpd for Control Panel server– Easier configuration
– Increased Parallels Virtuozzo Container density
• Multiple MTA Options– Postfix
• Multiple webmail on Unix– @mail support
System Improvements
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Improved Multi-Level Backup/Restore
PLESK ADMIN
DOMAIN
RESELLER
CLIENT
Web User Mail User
LOCAL DISK /
WORKSTATION
PROVIDER’S FTP /
USER’S FTP
Backup
Backup
Backup
Backup
Each user can order full or partial backup within his/her scope of visibility. The backup can contain just Control Panel configuration or include services content.
The backup can be stored locally, or outside the Plesk server.
*Feature Not Currently in Beta
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• Complete Hosting Solution• Seamless end to end integration
• Sell, Provision, Manage hosting plans
• Full automation and management of domain registrations
• Hosting plans synchronized with provisioning templates
• Integrated GUI for service provider and clients
• Support for over 20 payment gateways
• UI Navigation between Control Panel and Billing
Plesk Billing
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*Feature Currently Not in Beta
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Unix PlatformsOS Version VZ EZ x64 Beta?
Fedora Core 4, 5 Yes Yes Yes
Fedora Core 6 Yes Yes Yes
Fedora 7, 8 Yes Yes Yes
CentOS 4.X Yes Yes Yes
CentOS 5.X Yes Yes Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Yes Yes Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Yes Yes Yes
SuSE Linux 9.3 Yes Yes
SuSE Linux 10.0 Yes Yes Yes
SuSE Linux 10.1 Yes Yes Yes
openSuSE 10.2,10.3 Yes Yes Yes
openSuSE 11.0 Yes
SuSE Enterprise 10 Yes Yes
SuSE Enterprise 9.0 Yes Yes
FreeBSD 6.1 Yes
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, 4.0 Yes 4.0 only Yes
Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10, 8.04 LTS Yes Yes Yes
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Windows PlatformsOS Version VZ3 VZ4 i386 x64 Beta?
Windows 2003 Server Web Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2003 Server Data Center Edition SP1 , SP2, R2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition SP1 Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2008 Server Enterprise Edition SP1 Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2008 Server Data Center Edition SP1 Yes Yes Yes
MS SQL 2008 Fully Supported
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• UI Improvements
• Resellers
• APS Catalog
• PHP over CGI/FastCGI
• lighttpd for Control Panel server
What’s in Beta Download Today?
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Upgrade Strategy• Direct Upgrade from 7.5, 7.6 and 8.x versions will be possible
• Pre 7.5.x versions can be migrated by Plesk migration tools
• Business model is not changed during upgrade
• Resellers are not created
• Oversell / overuse modes are turned off
• No future upgrade from Beta to Production
• License Keys:
• Beta supplied with unlimited test key activated till November 1st 2008.
• Production installation will upgrade your key automatically if you have active SUS subscription
• All acquired add-ons will be preserved
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Questions ?Webinar Questions can be sent via Webex Chat or by
emailing [email protected]. Please use the word Webinar Question in the subject line.
• Please send your testing feedback or questions to [email protected] at any time.
• In case you didn't have a chance to download and try the distribution, you may do it at http://www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk9beta/ and fill in the feedback form at http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk9/beta/survey . If you encounter any problems, feel free to send a problem report to us by submitting it via
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk9/beta/problemreport.
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