Parallels Server Bare Metal Configuration

Parallels Server Bare Metal allows you to flexibly configure various settings for the physical server in general as well as for each and every Container. Among these settings are disk and user quota, network parameters, default file locations and configuration sample files, and others.

Parallels Server Bare Metal stores all OS virtualization-related configuration information in two types of files: the global configuration file /etc/vz/vz.conf and Container configuration files /etc/vz/conf/< CT_ID >.conf . The global configuration file defines global and default parameters for Container operation, for example, logging settings, enabling and disabling disk quota for Containers, the default configuration file and OS template on the basis of which a new Container is created, and so on. On the other hand, a Container configuration file defines the parameters for a given particular Container, such as disk quota and allocated resources limits, IP address and hostname, and so on. If a parameter is configured both in the global configuration file and in the Container configuration file, the Container configuration file takes precedence. For a list of parameters constituting the global configuration file and the Container configuration files, refer the Parallels Server Bare Metal 5.0 Command Line Reference Guide .

The configuration files are read when the Parallels Server Bare Metal software and/or Containers are started. However, Parallels Server Bare Metal standard utilities (for example, pctl ) allow you to change many configuration settings on the fly, either without modifying the corresponding configuration files or with their modification (if you want the changes to apply the next time the Parallels Server Bare Metal software and/or Containers are started).