In this chapter, we discussed what OpenVZ is and walked through the system requirements to install OpenVZ, including hardware and networking requirements. Finally, we walked through the steps needed to install OpenVZ—configuring yum, and installing the vzkernel and additional utilities: vzctl and vzquota.

In the next chapter, you are going to learn how to download and use OS templates to create containers on the server as well as how to create a container and set up the hostname, IP address, and DNS for it.