About This Guide

The Administrator's Guide is written for administrators of both Hardware Nodes and Container they host and consists of the following sections.

• The Organizing Virtuozzo Infrastructure chapter provides information on the most common ways to handle the relationships among different kinds of Virtuozzo objects (Hardware Nodes, Containers, etc.) in Parallels Infrastructure Manager.
• The Managing Containers chapter centers on:
  • managing Containers, such as creating, cloning, configuring, starting/stopping, reinstalling, repairing, firewalling, migrating between Nodes, etc;
  • managing services and processes running in a Container, including managing Windows services, managing Linux services, installing Plesk and working in Plesk Control Panel and managing and configuring name-based hosting services to be run by a Container;
  • managing and monitoring the resources allocated to a Container, which is monitoring its resources and changing the resources limits for both single Container and multiple Containers;
  • managing the configuration samples the Container is based on: creating and viewing samples, setting a sample as a default one, uploading samples on the Hardware Nodes, editing samples (that is, effectively, editing the configuration of the Containers) and creating samples by splitting the Hardware Nodes to evenly distribute its resources among the hosted Containers based on this sample;
  • migrating Containers both between Hardware Nodes and from a physical server to a Container (the so-called p2v migration).
• The Managing Hardware Nodes chapter deals with managing the Hardware Nodes, which includes registering Hardware Nodes in Parallels Infrastructure Manager, configuring the Hardware Nodes, managing the name-based hosting services to be run on the Containers residing on the Nodes, monitoring consumption of the resources allocated to the Nodes, managing OS and application templates installed on the Nodes, and rebooting the Nodes.
• The Managing OS and Application Templates chapter contains a description of Virtuozzo template management.
• The Virtuozzo Network chapter explains all the Virtuozzo network-related concepts, including:
  • configuring network accounting and shaping for the Hardware Nodes - tracking and limiting traffic for all the Containers on the Node;
  • configuring network accounting and shaping for single Containers - that is, changing the traffic rate guarantee and the method of limiting the traffic for the Container.
• The Managing Container Backups chapter refers to:
  • managing backups of multiple Containers;
  • backing up and restoring from backups a single Container;
• In the Managing Virtuozzo Licences chapter you will find information on:
  • viewing the detailed information on the current licences installed on the Hardware Node;
  • editing migration procedure details;
  • installing a Virtuozzo Server license on the Hardware Node;
  • identifying the current status of your licenses, that is, whether a license is active, expired etc.
• The Managing Virtuozzo Security chapter covers the following interaction-based operations:
  • managing Parallels Infrastructure Manager users access rights - creating new Infrastructure Manager users, editing the existing ones, managing users roles, setting up the self-registering in Infrastructure Manager, setting up email notification exchange between Hardware Node administrator and Infrastructure Manager users, etc;
• The Managing Container Samples chapter describes the management of Container sample configuration files, which serve as the basis for creating new Containers.
• The Maintaining Virtuozzo Infrastructure chapter is dedicated to:
  • managing Container requests, a client-administrator interaction-based feature streamlining the whole process of granting access to managing Containers;
  • updating the Virtuozzo Containers software, including updating system software and customizing the process of the update, updating OS and application templates, configuring access to the update repository and testing connection with the update repository.
  • creating a timetable to automate Containers backing up and restarting;
  • viewing the dynamic of changes in the statuses of Container;
  • viewing the log of alerts generated every time a Container consumes more of a resource than is specified by the limit on that resource, or is coming close to that limit;
  • monitoring top resource consuming Containers;
  • viewing the tasks underway, the command line-style details of the tasks and the information on the errors in performing them.
  • receiving support from Parallels - downloading documentation and software, submitting a technical issue to the Parallels support team, establishing a private secure connection to the Parallels support team server and installing on the Hardware Node the certificate to identify the request sender.
• The Troubleshooting chapter lists most common problems you might encounter during Infrastructure Manager operations and the ways to solve them.

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