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OpenVZ Essentials

OpenVZ Essentials

By : Furman
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OpenVZ Essentials

OpenVZ Essentials

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By: Furman
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Overview of this book

If you are a system administrator or Linux professional who wants to learn to set up, install, and manage OpenVZ containers on a server to implement OS-level virtualization, then this book is for you. Along with elementary knowledge of Linux programming, you need to have a conceptual understanding of system components and functions.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Installing OpenVZ
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1. Installing OpenVZ
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What is OS-level virtualization?
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What is OpenVZ?
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System requirements
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The disk partition scheme
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The yum configuration
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Installing vzkernel
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Installing vzctl and vzquota
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Restarting the server
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Summary
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2. OS Templates and Creating Containers
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2. OS Templates and Creating Containers
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Getting started with OS templates
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Selecting an OS template
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Container configuration
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Summary
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3. OpenVZ Container Administration
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3. OpenVZ Container Administration
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Using vzlist
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The vzctl command
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Using vzctl to suspend and resume a container
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Using vzctl to mount and unmount a container
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Disk quotas
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Further use of vzctl set
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4. Server Administration Using OpenVZ
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4. Server Administration Using OpenVZ
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Important system files
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Managing and configuring the CPU
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Memory management
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The /var/log/vzctl.log file
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5. Using OpenVZ Web Panel – Part One
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5. Using OpenVZ Web Panel – Part One
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OpenVZ Web Panel
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Configuring /opt/ovz-web-panel/config/config.yml
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Logging in to OpenVZ Web Panel
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Dashboard
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Physical servers
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6. Using OpenVZ Web Panel – Part Two
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6. Using OpenVZ Web Panel – Part Two
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Understanding the virtual server information page
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IP Addresses
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My Profile
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Requests
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Tasks
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Events Log
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Logout
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Getting started with OS templates

OS templates are packed container files of a Linux distribution that we can use to quickly install a new container on our node. We can use multiple distributions of Linux on the OpenVZ node. We are not confined to use the same distribution that is installed on the server itself.

You cannot, however, use Windows templates because OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualization technology. The packaged files inside the template files contain everything that is needed to run the container, including boot files, libraries, and system utilities.

Downloading OS templates

Two ways to download OS templates are explained in this section—one method is by using vztmpl-dl and the other method is a manual method.

Using vztmpl-dl to download OS templates

OpenVZ comes with a tool named vztmpl-dl that can help you download OS templates easily and effectively. You will use two options with vztmpl-dl, which are explained as follows:

  • vztmpl-dl --list-remote: This command will provide...
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