Organization of This Guide

This guide is organized in the following way:

Chapter 1, Introduction, gives an overview of the Virtuozzo product and this guide.

Chapter 2, Learning Virtuozzo 6 Basics, explains the general principles of Virtuozzo operation.

Chapter 3, Managing Virtual Machines and Containers, covers operations that you can perform on virtual machines and Containers: creation and deletion, starting and stopping, backup and restoration, etc. You will also learn how to perform different kinds of migration: migrate virtual machines and Containers between hosts, migrate a physical server to a virtual machine or Container, and migrate a Container to a virtual machine.

Chapter 4, Managing Resources, focuses on configuring and monitoring the resource control parameters for virtual machines and Containers. These parameters comprise disk quotas, network accounting and shaping, CPU and system resources.

Chapter 5, Managing Services and Processes, familiarizes you with the operations you can perform on processes and services in Virtuozzo.

Chapter 6, Managing Virtuozzo Network, familiarizes you with the Virtuozzo network structure and explains how to manage networks in Virtuozzo systems.

Chapter 7, Managing Licenses, provides detailed information on managing licenses in Virtuozzo.

Chapter 8, Keeping Your System Up To Date, informs you of the ways to keep all the software components of a host up to date.

Chapter 9, Advanced Tasks, enumerates those tasks that are intended for advanced system administrators who would like to obtain deeper knowledge about Virtuozzo capabilities.

Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, suggests ways to resolve common inconveniences should they occur during your work with Virtuozzo.