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Ploop/Getting started

2015-05-17T16:48:01Z

Unixservice: /* Converting an existing CT */ added section about removing old container files that are not needed anymore

This article describes how to use container-in-a-file technology aka [[ploop]]

== Requirements ==

The following is required for ploop to work:

# [[Download/kernel/rhel6|RHEL6-based OpenVZ kernel]], i.e. 042stabXXX.
# <code>/vz</code> partition formatted as <code>ext4</code> and mounted in ordered mode, or residing on NFS. No other filesystem is supported.
# ploop library and tools installed (run <code>yum install ploop</code>).

== Making a CT on ploop ==

=== Global configuration ===

In global VZ configuration file [[Man/vz.conf.5|/etc/vz/vz.conf]], set

VE_LAYOUT=ploop

This means that all new containers you will create will have ploop layout by default.

You don't have to set this option if you don't want ploop to be default. Alternatively, you can:

* use <code>--layout</code> option of <code>vzctl create</code> command;
* convert existing container to ploop.

=== Creating a new CT ===

To create a new container on ploop, use:

vzctl create ''CTID'' [--layout ploop] [--diskspace ''nnn''G] [--diskinodes ''mmm'']

# You can omit <code>--layout</code> option if you have set <code>VE_LAYOUT=ploop</code> in {{Man|vz.conf|5}}
# You can specify initial file system size using <code>--diskspace</code> option (example: 10G for 10 gigabytes)
# If <code>--diskspace</code> is not specified, the size defaults to DISKSPACE limit value in sample CT config used
# If <code>--diskinodes</code> is not specified, 1 inode per 16K of disk space will be created (see [[../diskinodes/]] for more info)

=== Converting an existing CT ===

1. Stop the container:
vzctl stop ''CTID''

2. Set some sane diskspace value, and reset the [[../diskinodes/]] value. New value for diskspace will be used as a size of newly created ploop image. Here is the example to set diskspace to 10 gigabytes:
vzctl set ''CTID'' --diskspace 10G --diskinodes 0 --save

3. Convert:
vzctl convert ''CTID''

4. Once your CT is well tested, you can free disk space by removing files that may have remained from the old container file system in /vz/root/''CTID''. VERY CAREFULLY (and after testing your converted container) you can stop, remove old files and start container again, e.g.:
vzctl stop ''CTID''
rm -rf /vz/root/''CTID'';mkdir /vz/root/''CTID''
vzctl start ''CTID''

== Resizing a ploop image ==

Ploop image can be resized in both directions (i.e. either shrank or grown). Ploop also supports online/live resize so you don't have to stop a CT to do resize.

To resize a ploop CT image, use

vzctl set ''CTID'' --diskspace ''nnn''G --save

Note that
* resize can safely be performed online (i.e. when container is running)
* there is no need to specify two values for diskspace (unlike simfs, there is no soft and hard quota).
* there is no way to limit or change the number of inodes available for an existing container (i.e. option <code>--diskinodes</code> is ignored); see [[../diskinodes/]] for more details

== Showing disk space usage / limits ==

You can use {{Man|vzlist|8}} to see CT disk space usage and limits in a uniform way for any containers (simfs or ploop, started or stopped).

The field '''diskspace''' is showing the current disk space usage, and the fields '''diskspace.s''' and '''diskspace.h''' are showing the filesystem size (or disk space quotas, for simfs case).

The field '''diskinodes''' is showing the current inodes usage, and the fields '''diskinodes.s''' and '''diskinodes.h''' are showing the filesystem size (or disk inodes quotas, for simfs case).

Examples:

vzlist -o smart_name,diskspace.h,diskspace
vzlist -o smart_name,diskinodes.h,diskinodes

On a lower level, same info can be obtained via '''ploop info''' command:

ploop info /vz/private/501/root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml

== Using disk quotas inside container ==

If you want to use standard Linux per-user and per-group disk quota inside a container, you have to enable it using

vzctl set ''CTID'' --quotaugidlimit 1000 --save

Note that:
* unlike with simfs, <code>--quotaugidlimit</code> argument can be any non-zero value;
* enabling or disabling in-container disk quotas requires a container restart, so you might find <code>--setmode</code> option helpful.

See {{Man|vzctl|8}} for more details.

== See also ==

* [[Ploop]]
* [[Ploop/backup]]
* {{Man|ploop|8}}
* {{Man|vz.conf|5}}
* {{Man|vzctl|8}}

[[Category: Storage]]
[[Category: HOWTO]]

Control panels

2015-05-10T15:32:22Z

Unixservice: Removed repo update info that changes daily

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Featured and recommended ==

=== [http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/ OVZ Web Panel] ===

{|
||
* Written in Ruby
* Automatic installer
* Backup/restore/clone CT
* Pretty interface with charts
* Multi-user/roles/server/lingual support, user requests, event logging
* Remote API
* IP management
* Version 2.2 released on 2013-02-09. Very active development.
||
[[File:Ovz-web-panel.png|200px|left|link=http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/]]
|}
<br clear="both">

== Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) ==
* FOSVM (Free Open Source Virtual Machine manager): [http://fosvm.sourceforge.net/ homepage] | Uses php and bash scripts, monitors bandwidth, Version 0.03a. Last updated 2009-05-18.
* HyperVM: [http://lxcenter.org/software/hypervm/ homepage] AGPL V3
* MiniCloud: [https://github.com/ryandoyle/minicloud homepage] | A set of client/server programs that provides similar functionality to the EC2 CLI tools for OpenVZ.
* OpenNode: [http://opennodecloud.com/ homepage (English)] - Bare-metal ISO installer (CentOS based) providing openvz, kvm, libvirt and func out-of-box together with OpenNode Management Server appliance - containing also ajax Web Management Console with secure HTML5 vnc and ssh vm consoles.
* OpenVZ Web Panel [http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/ homepage] - Version 2.1. Written on Ruby. Automatic installer, backup/restore/clone, pretty interface with charts, multi-user/roles/server/lingual support, user requests, event logging and all NEW: remote API, IP management and VZ migrations. Version 2.1 released on 2012-05-02. Very active development.
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer. Requires 64bit Processor.
* unxsVZ OpenVZ Multiple datacenter infrastructure manager for CentOS: [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ unxsVZ Trac Wiki] | Includes autonomic UBC adjusting, traffic and stats graphs. Supports hot-cold container clones, remote datacenter backups, IP and other resource management, container set group commands, NAT, and many advanced features. Very active development. Allows one or two staff to manage more than 1k containers on dozens of nodes across multiple datacenters. Installs via yum. GPLv2 licensed.
* VirtuoCP ( formerly Vtonf): [http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtonf/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Last update 2010-10-17.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]
* FluidVM: [http://www.fluidvm.com Home Page]
* NGASI: [http://www.ngasi.com/cloud/cp/index.zul homepage] is the Out-of-the-Box Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Solution. Quickly and easily create a cloud based P-a-a-S with 2 or more Virtuzzo/OpenVZ servers.
* oVZManager [http://www.ovzmanager.de homepage (Webinterface German and English)] Terminal and Rescue, IPv6 - Admin, Reseller, Customer - Windows Support over KVM
* Plesk [http://www.odin.com/products/plesk/ homepage], a control panel from Odin.
* SolusVM [http://www.solusvm.com homepage]. Also supports KVM, Xen PV & HVM. Includes support for VSwap
* Sysvm :[http://sysvm.com Home Page], The Enterprise hybrid vps control panel with ipv6 and load balancing, formally known as vcPanel. [http://sysvm.com/Demo Demo]
* TekBASE: [http://teklab.de/ homepage /German)] Admin, Customer panel for openvz, game, stream and voice servers
* VMmanager: [http://ispsystem.com/en/software/vmmanager/ homepage (English)], a control panel for virtual machines management.
* vePortal: [http://www.veportal.com/ homepage (English)] - Widely used OpenVZ Management Panel.
* VirtPanel [http://www.virtpanel.com homepage], Support for Xen and VMware in the future.
* Virtualizor [http://www.virtualizor.com homepage] by Softaculous. Also supports Xen PV & HVM, Linux KVM. Powers over 10000 VMs.
* HostGuard [http://www.hostguard.net/ homepage]. Also supports KVM. Xen support due in February 2014.

== Frozen projects ==
* BoxCtrl-VZ [http://www.boxctrl.com homepage] - Free and open source. Uses PHP, XML, and bash scripts. Lightweight. Released on Feb. 18th, 2012.
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but working and free. Last update Feb 2007) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.org/ homepage] Last activity May 2007
* Panenthe: [http://www.panenthe.com/ homepage (English)] • [http://www.panenthe.com/products/panenthe-media/cat_id=4/ Screen shots] <- does not exist anymore since 2010
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license. No activity in 2 years, calling it frozen.
* vpsAdmin (www.vpsadmin.org) - GPLv3 license, PHP+MySQL+Bash, Multi-server & Multilingual support, vpsAdmin 1.0 released on January 19, 2010
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)] website shows apache default page (11. 02. 2010)
* VZMaster [http://www.vzmaster.com homepage], [http://www.vzmaster.com/downloads/usermanual_vzmaster_1.0.0.pdf User Manual] -- We also provide complete OpenVZ Distro based on Ubuntu Server distribution. - Website is offline
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Version 2.0 released September 7, 2008 (Moved to [https://github.com/shuaibzahda/webvz/commits/master GitHub], last commit 2009-03-20). Requires Ruby on Rails.
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
* SLKVM [http://solukom.com/software/slkvm homepage]: console scripts to handle vz virtualization in a two node cluster. ,

== In development ==
* easyVZ! [http://www.easyVZ.org/ homepage]
* DTC-Xen [http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc-xen.html homepage] - Currently being ported to OpenVZ by its main developers.
* VZControl [https://github.com/mrkmg/vzcontrol github] - CLI interface to administer multiple OpenVZ Hosts. Written in PHP5.

== 3rd party wrappers ==
Beside control panels that are designed to work with OpenVZ, a lot of great tools have been released that allow you to centralized manage your servers in general. If you are in knowledge of a popular programming language like Ruby, Python or Perl it's easy to create your own OpenVZ modules for them.

'''Perl'''
* (R)?ex [http://rexify.org/] - With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment.

'''Python'''
* Fabric [http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/] - Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

'''Ruby'''
* Capistrano [https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano] - Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH.

If you have a working modul for one of them or can suggest more such tools, feel free to add them!

Control panels

2013-12-05T22:14:33Z

Unixservice: /* Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) */

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Featured and recommended ==

=== [http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/ OVZ Web Panel] ===

{|
||
* Written in Ruby
* Automatic installer
* Backup/restore/clone CT
* Pretty interface with charts
* Multi-user/roles/server/lingual support, user requests, event logging
* Remote API
* IP management
* Version 2.2 released on 2013-02-09. Very active development.
||
[[File:Ovz-web-panel.png|200px|left|link=http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/]]
|}
<br clear="both">

== Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) ==
* FOSVM (Free Open Source Virtual Machine manager): [http://fosvm.sourceforge.net/ homepage] | Uses php and bash scripts, monitors bandwidth, Version 0.03a. Last updated 2009-05-18.
* HyperVM: [http://lxcenter.org/software/hypervm/ homepage] AGPL V3
* MiniCloud: [https://github.com/ryandoyle/minicloud homepage] | A set of client/server programs that provides similar functionality to the EC2 CLI tools for OpenVZ.
* OpenNode: [http://opennode.activesys.org/ homepage (English)] - Bare-metal ISO installer (CentOS based) providing openvz, kvm, libvirt and func out-of-box together with OpenNode Management Server appliance - containing also ajax Web Management Console with secure HTML5 vnc and ssh vm consoles.
* OpenVZ Web Panel [http://code.google.com/p/ovz-web-panel/ homepage] - Version 2.1. Written on Ruby. Automatic installer, backup/restore/clone, pretty interface with charts, multi-user/roles/server/lingual support, user requests, event logging and all NEW: remote API, IP management and VZ migrations. Version 2.1 released on 2012-05-02. Very active development.
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer. Requires 64bit Processor.
* SLKVM [http://solukom.com/software/slkvm homepage]: console scripts to handle vz virtualization in a two node cluster.
* unxsVZ OpenVZ Multiple datacenter infrastructure manager for CentOS: [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ unxsVZ Trac Wiki] | Includes autonomic UBC adjusting, traffic and stats graphs. Supports hot-cold container clones, remote datacenter backups, IP and other resource management, container set group commands, NAT, and many advanced features. Very active development. Allows one or two staff to manage more than 1k containers on dozens of nodes across multiple datacenters. Installs via yum. GPLv2 licensed. Last change to public svn code base Dec 5, 2013.
* VirtuoCP ( formerly Vtonf): [http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtonf/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Last update 2010-10-17.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]
* FluidVM: [http://www.fluidvm.com Home Page]
* NGASI: [http://www.ngasi.com/cloud/cp/index.zul homepage] is the Out-of-the-Box Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Solution. Quickly and easily create a cloud based P-a-a-S with 2 or more Virtuzzo/OpenVZ servers.
* oVZManager [http://www.ovzmanager.de homepage (Webinterface German and English)] Terminal and Rescue, IPv6 - Admin, Reseller, Customer - Windows Support over KVM
* Plesk [http://www.parallels.com/plesk homepage], a control panel from Parallels.
* SolusVM [http://www.solusvm.com homepage]. Also supports KVM, Xen PV & HVM. Includes support for VSwap
* Sysvm :[http://sysvm.com Home Page], The Enterprise hybrid vps control panel with ipv6 and load balancing, formally known as vcPanel. [http://sysvm.com/Demo Demo]
* TekBASE: [http://teklab.de/ homepage /German)] Admin, Customer panel for openvz, game, stream and voice servers
* VDSmanager for Linux :[http://ispsystem.com/en/software/vdsmanager/ homepage (English)]
* vePortal: [http://www.veportal.com/ homepage (English)] - Widely used OpenVZ Management Panel.
* VirtPanel [http://www.virtpanel.com homepage], Support for Xen and VMware in the future.
* Virtualizor [http://www.virtualizor.com homepage] by Softaculous. Also supports Xen PV & HVM, Linux KVM. Powers over 10000 VMs.
* VZMaster [http://www.vzmaster.com homepage], [http://www.vzmaster.com/downloads/usermanual_vzmaster_1.0.0.pdf User Manual] -- We also provide complete OpenVz Distro based on Ubuntu Server distribution.

== Frozen projects ==
* BoxCtrl-VZ [http://www.boxctrl.com homepage] - Free and open source. Uses PHP, XML, and bash scripts. Lightweight. Released on Feb. 18th, 2012.
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but working and free. Last update Feb 2007) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.org/ homepage] Last activity May 2007
* Panenthe: [http://www.panenthe.com/ homepage (English)] • [http://www.panenthe.com/products/panenthe-media/cat_id=4/ Screen shots] <- does not exist anymore since 2010
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license. No activity in 2 years, calling it frozen.
* vpsAdmin (www.vpsadmin.org) - GPLv3 license, PHP+MySQL+Bash, Multi-server & Multilingual support, vpsAdmin 1.0 released on January 19, 2010
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)] website shows apache default page (11. 02. 2010)
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Version 2.0 released September 7, 2008 (Moved to [https://github.com/shuaibzahda/webvz/commits/master GitHub], last commit 2009-03-20). Requires Ruby on Rails.
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07

== In development ==
* easyVZ! [http://www.easyVZ.org/ homepage]
* DTC-Xen [http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc-xen.html homepage] - Currently being ported to OpenVZ by its main developers.
* VZControl [https://github.com/mrkmg/vzcontrol github] - CLI interface to administer multiple OpenVZ Hosts. Written in PHP5.

== 3rd party wrappers ==
Beside control panels that are designed to work with OpenVZ, a lot of great tools have been released that allow you to centralized manage your servers in general. If you are in knowledge of a popular programming language like Ruby, Python or Perl it's easy to create your own OpenVZ modules for them.

'''Perl'''
* (R)?ex [http://rexify.org/] - With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment.

'''Python'''
* Fabric [http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/] - Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

'''Ruby'''
* Capistrano [https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano] - Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH.

If you have a working modul for one of them or can suggest more such tools, feel free to add them!

Hosting providers

2009-06-24T14:34:23Z

Unixservice: /* USA */ Added our specialized OpenVZ only hosting

OpenVZ makes for a great hosting platform for VPS hosting. The providers below offer VPS services using OpenVZ.

== Austria ==

* [http://kapper.net/ kapper.net] kapper.net offers OpenVZ and Virtuozzo (and other HyperVisors) based server-solutions with kind support and 24x7 maintenance.

* [https://www.vboxes.net/ vboxes] vboxes offers generous OpenVZ containers hosted on a very fast network with fast setup. Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS.

== Canada ==

* [http://www.vistapages.com/vps Vistapages VPS] - IBM & Dell Hardware. MCI/Verizon Backbone. Distros: Centos, Fedora, Debian & more. Full management available. Located in Toronto.
* [http://vpsville.ca/ VPSVille] - Good network. Good CPU. Good choice of distros: Centos, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, CERN. My favorite OpenVZ provider. [mailto:jak@isp2dial.com John Kelly]
* [http://compevo.com compevo Clustered VPS Server Hosting Provider] - We offer clustered VPS Servers to avoid downtime and dataloss. Our network and service is second to none and is used by businesses around the world.

== Germany ==

* [http://www.ingate.de/managed-server.html Ingate] offers managed servers with openVZ virtualization. located in germany, great support.
* [http://www.synapseglobal.com/voip_vps.html SynapseGlobal.com] Elastix, Trixbox, PBX in a Flash and Asterisk VPS - OpenVZ based Asterisk VOIP servers located in Munich Germany.

== Iran==

* [http://www.cheapvps.ir Cheap Vps] - XEON Cpus , 8 gig Ram , western H.d.d. , Intel RAID and Multi data center network.

== Lithuania ==

* [http://www.serveriai.lt/ Serveriai.lt] - Affordable OpenVZ containers on quality HP hardware. Wide choice of virtual dedicated servers up to 8 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM. Full management available. Located in Vilnius.

== Malaysia ==

* [http://www.bakka.my/ Bakka Hosting] - OpenVZ VPS based in Malaysia. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS is available. Quad Core Xeon node. DirectAdmin also available.

== Netherlands ==

* [http://www.signet.nl/ Signet VPS Hosting] - Signet delivers VPS hosting plans based on CentOS or Debian templates, including control-panel Virtualmin.
* [http://www.touchvps.com/ TouchVPS] is a company who offer Support and Managed Services for OpenVZ Servers ,also offer templates for openvz ready to go with cPanel , DirectAdmin , Plesk , Games, IRC Services, Desktop and many more.
* [http://www.voipcomplete.com/product-overview/dedicated-vps.html VOIPcomplete] offers dedicated VPS plans based on CentOS including a VPS management interface.

== Portugal ==

* [http://www.efeito.net/ Weblevel.pt] - OpenVZ virtual servers based in Portugal.

== Russia ==

* [http://www.demos.ru/service/datacenter/vps.html Demos-Internet] - we offer OpenVZ Virtual Private Server based on Linux. All VPS come with ISPmanager control panel.
* [http://www.net.ru/service/net9/ www.net.ru] - OpenVZ virtual private servers.

== Singapore ==

* [http://conceptlane.com/IT.php?section=plans_vps ConceptLane Pte Ltd] - OpenVZ VPS on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS host, on dual dual-core AMD Opterons.

== South Africa ==

* [http://www.SoftDux.co.za/ SoftDux] - OpenVZ virtual servers based America & South Africa. All VPS's come with cPanel or Plesk control panels. XEN VPS's also available.

== UK ==

* [http://www.xilo.net/virtual_private_servers-vps/ XILO] - UK-based hosting with UK-based support. VPS services offered with a choice of cPanel, Webmin and other useful applications, VoIP, SIP, VPN to name a few.
* [http://www.DubHosting.co.uk/ DubHosting] - DubHosting started in 2004 has been providing cost effective hosting to clients world wide. Fully managed OpenVZ servers based in Europe & US are one of their many strong points. They can provide you with a dedicated server and install openvz allowing you to sell your own vps servers.
* [http://www.vt6.co.uk/ VT6 Internet] - Affordable OpenVZ virtual servers based in the UK and USA. Choice of control panels and management options.
* [http://www.weycrest.co.uk/vps-hosting.php Weycrest VPS] - Low Cost, Stable OpenVZ and Parallels' Virtuozzo Virtual Private Server solutions. London UK Hosted at Coreix with a choice of operating systems, and root and control panel options.
* [http://blueroomhosting.com/plans.pxl Blue Room Hosting] - OpenVZ containers hosted at the 4D data centre in Byfleet, West London, UK
* [http://sysadminman.net/uk-voip-vps.html Trixbox, Elastix and Asterisk VPS in the UK] - OpenVZ based Asterisk VOIP servers based in the UK

== Ukraine ==

* [http://www.gelihost.com/ Geliar Hosting Solutions] - Fast virtual dedicated servers based on OpenVZ. Geliar Hosting Solutions offering many control panels and other useful services.

== USA ==
* [http://www.vpsspeed.com/ VPSSpeed] - VPSSpeed provides unmanaged OpenVZ based VPS hosting with over 50 OS Templates, real 24/7/365 support and fast US servers. No overselling.
* [http://www.DubHosting.com/ DubHosting] - DubHosting started in 2004 has been providing cost effective hosting to clients world wide. Fully managed OpenVZ servers based in Europe & US are one of their many strong points. They can provide you with a dedicated server and install openvz allowing you to sell your own vps servers.
* [http://www.4domains.com/open_vps.html 4Domains] has been in the hosting business since 1998, offering VPS solutions for the majority of that time. We offer OpenVZ and Virtuozzo with Virtualmin or Plesk at competitive prices on any distribution of Linux with full shell access. Includes our award winning professional and personalized support.
* [http://www.a2hosting.com/services/vps-hosting/ A2 Hosting] offers affordable, developer friendly OpenVZ VPS Hosting. Experience the A2 Hosting Difference.
* [http://unixservice.com Unixservice/unxsVZ] Low cost OpenVZ ONLY hosting we specialize in Mail, DNS and RADIUS multiple container hosting. At the world famous Market St. San Jose, CA Silicon Valley datacenter. Ping times from your containers to local yahoo and google sites guaranteed single digit ms times. Your containers are backed up at 4 local and 2 remote locations. Contact supportgrp at unixservice dot com.
* [http://www.bittraffic.com/?cmd=vps BitTraffic] High Quality Hosting Solutions! Affordable, stable, reliable OpenVZ VPS Solutions!
* [http://www.tigerservers.com/ TigerServers] - Provides affordable managed VPS based on OpenVZ. Servers located in Chicago, Illinois.
* [http://www.silverrack.com/ SilverRack VPS Hosting] - SilverRack provides affordable VPS hosting using the OpenVZ platform.
* [http://www.buyavps.com/ BuyAVPS] - BuyAVPS provides stable yet affordable VPS hosting with a great support staff.
* [http://vpslink.com VPSLink.com] provides virtual private server hosting on the OpenVZ platform.
* [http://glesys.se GleSYS] is a hosting company specialized in serverhosting. Also offering VPS hosting mainly based on OpenVZ. GleSYS has provided access to server and Cisco hardware for developers from OpenVZ to find problem with VLAN implementation.
* [http://lylix.net LYLIX] offers affordable VPS hosting with a choice of eight different Linux distributions, dedicated VPS hosting, and specializes in Asterisk/VOIP based hosting including Trixbox, AsteriskNow, Elastix, and PBX-in-a-Flash. Popular choice for unmanaged IP-PBX services; entire infrastructure built on a High-availability (HA) network across three regional NOCs.
* [http://www.servergrove.com ServerGrove] uses OpenVZ as the main virtualization platform for its state of the art VPS hosting services.
* [http://www.tektonic.net TekTonic] provides VPS hosting services using both Virtuozzo and OpenVZ technology.
* [http://www.micfo.com Micfo.com] offers VPS hosting services for both Linux VPS hosting and Window VPS hosting on affordable price combined with world-class 24x7x365 support.
* [http://www.alticon.net Alticon] has provided OpenVZ based VPS/VE hosting for over 2½ years. Many clients use OpenVZ based VEs as a cost effective solution for hosting highly secured, customized versions of ZenCart & WordPress. Other clients use OpenVZ for DNS mirroring, messages board hosting, and general use.
* [http://www.hostingrails.com Hosting Rails] offers Rails-targeted OpenVZ VPS Hosting and updated Rails-ready OS images.
* [http://www.byethost.com Byethost.com] offers OpenVZ based VPS Hosting as its main VPS solution, with the hypervm panel. Centos, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu Containers are available.
* [http://www.synapseglobal.com/voip_vps.html SynapseGlobal.com] Elastix, Trixbox, PBX in a Flash and Asterisk VPS - OpenVZ based Asterisk VOIP servers with 14 Tier 1 premium bandwidth providers.
* [http://www.zoidial.com/ Zoidial Hosting and VPS] - offers VPS and Virtual Dedicated Server solutions utilizing OpenVZ. In business since 1998, Zoidial Incorporated is a small hosting provider focused on being security conscious, proactive, and offering a positive client experience.
* [http://railsplayground.com RailsPlayground.com] Ruby on Rails VPS with ready to go Rails images with the LxAdmin control panel

== Venezuela ==

* [http://www.iguanahosting.com Iguanahosting.com] The Iguanahosting OpenVZ based VEs also called "SDV"(Servidor Dedicado Virtual in Spanish). Running on Full Quality Nodes of up to 8 CPU and 8 GB RAM. XEN VPS's also will be available cooming soon. All VPS's come with cPanel, Fantastico and RVSkin and a Real 24/7/365 Technical Support.

== See also ==

* [[Partners]]
* [[Download mirrors]]
* [[VPS vs Dedicated]]

Control panels

2009-06-21T22:42:20Z

Unixservice: /* Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) */

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) ==
* fosvm (Free Open Source Virtual Machine manager): [http://fosvm.sourceforge.net/ homepage] | Uses php and bash scripts, monitors bandwidth, Version 0.02a. Last updated 2009-05-15.
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer
* unxsVZ OpenVZ Infrastructure Manager: [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ unxsVZ Trac Wiki] | Includes autonomic UBC adjusting and per container traffic graphs. Supports hot-spare clones and mount/umount conf file templates. Very active development. Last change to public svn code base June 20, 2009.
* Vtonf: [http://www.vtonf.com/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Marked as beta, but works quite well. Last change April 2008
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Uses Ruby on Rails which makes it a poor choice for Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb style distros. In the comments section of http://www.howtoforge.com/install-webvz-2.0-on-debian-etch-to-administrate-openvz there is a suggestion of how to get this one running under Ubuntu Hardy. The authors like it.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* FluidVM: [http://www.binarykarma.com Home Page] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots]
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)]
* vzAdmin: [http://www.vzAdmin.info/ homepage (German)]
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]
* VS-Admin: [http://vsadmin.ispbase.net/ homepage (English)]

== Frozen projects ==
* VZAdmin: [http://www.ronny-goerner.de/ homepage] ''seems not available now''
* WVZ: [http://homaly.dunanet.hu/wvz/ homepage] ''seems frozen''
* New OpenVZ Web Based Control Panel by rsailor: {{forum|230}} ''seems not available now''
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but working and free. Last update Feb 2007) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.devjavu.com/ homepage] Last activity May 2007
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license. No activity in 2 years, calling it frozen.
* HyperVM: [http://lxlabs.com/software/hypervm/ homepage] - No longer being developed after the sole developer sadly committed suicide in June 09.

== In development ==
* WIVZ/GIVZ: [http://source.icenetx.net/ homepage] Release scheduled for October 2008. Unknow license. Link is currently broken as of 6 April 2009. It's probably defunct.
* VS-Admin: [http://vsadmin.ispbase.net/ homepage] Beta testers wanted (19-06-2009)

Control panels

2009-06-21T22:34:39Z

Unixservice: /* Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) */ typo fixed

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) ==
* fosvm (Free Open Source Virtual Machine manager): [http://fosvm.sourceforge.net/ homepage] | Uses php and bash scripts, monitors bandwidth, Version 0.02a. Last updated 2009-05-15.
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer
* unxsVZ: [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ] | Includes autonomic UBC adjusting and per container traffic graphs. Supports hot-spare clones and mount/umount conf file templates. Very active development. Last change to public svn code base June 20, 2009.
* Vtonf: [http://www.vtonf.com/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Marked as beta, but works quite well. Last change April 2008
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Uses Ruby on Rails which makes it a poor choice for Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb style distros. In the comments section of http://www.howtoforge.com/install-webvz-2.0-on-debian-etch-to-administrate-openvz there is a suggestion of how to get this one running under Ubuntu Hardy. The authors like it.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* FluidVM: [http://www.binarykarma.com Home Page] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots]
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)]
* vzAdmin: [http://www.vzAdmin.info/ homepage (German)]
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]
* VS-Admin: [http://vsadmin.ispbase.net/ homepage (English)]

== Frozen projects ==
* VZAdmin: [http://www.ronny-goerner.de/ homepage] ''seems not available now''
* WVZ: [http://homaly.dunanet.hu/wvz/ homepage] ''seems frozen''
* New OpenVZ Web Based Control Panel by rsailor: {{forum|230}} ''seems not available now''
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but working and free. Last update Feb 2007) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.devjavu.com/ homepage] Last activity May 2007
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license. No activity in 2 years, calling it frozen.
* HyperVM: [http://lxlabs.com/software/hypervm/ homepage] - No longer being developed after the sole developer sadly committed suicide in June 09.

== In development ==
* WIVZ/GIVZ: [http://source.icenetx.net/ homepage] Release scheduled for October 2008. Unknow license. Link is currently broken as of 6 April 2009. It's probably defunct.
* VS-Admin: [http://vsadmin.ispbase.net/ homepage] Beta testers wanted (19-06-2009)

Control panels

2009-06-21T22:31:39Z

Unixservice: /* Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) */ Corrected out of order entry and added our ready for release OpenVZ control panel.

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) ==
* fosvm (Free Open Source Virtual Machine manager): [http://fosvm.sourceforge.net/ homepage] | Uses php and bash scripts, monitors bandwidth, Version 0.02a. Last updated 2009-05-15.
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer
* unxsVZ: [http:/openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ] | Includes autonomic UBC adjusting and per container traffic graphs. Supports hot-spare clones and mount/umount conf file templates. Very active development. Last change to public svn code base June 20, 2009.
* Vtonf: [http://www.vtonf.com/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Marked as beta, but works quite well. Last change April 2008
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Uses Ruby on Rails which makes it a poor choice for Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb style distros. In the comments section of http://www.howtoforge.com/install-webvz-2.0-on-debian-etch-to-administrate-openvz there is a suggestion of how to get this one running under Ubuntu Hardy. The authors like it.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* FluidVM: [http://www.binarykarma.com Home Page] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots]
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)]
* vzAdmin: [http://www.vzAdmin.info/ homepage (German)]
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]
* VS-Admin: [http://vsadmin.ispbase.net/ homepage (English)]

== Frozen projects ==
* VZAdmin: [http://www.ronny-goerner.de/ homepage] ''seems not available now''
* WVZ: [http://homaly.dunanet.hu/wvz/ homepage] ''seems frozen''
* New OpenVZ Web Based Control Panel by rsailor: {{forum|230}} ''seems not available now''
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but working and free. Last update Feb 2007) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.devjavu.com/ homepage] Last activity May 2007
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license. No activity in 2 years, calling it frozen.
* HyperVM: [http://lxlabs.com/software/hypervm/ homepage] - No longer being developed after the sole developer sadly committed suicide in June 09.

== In development ==
* WIVZ/GIVZ: [http://source.icenetx.net/ homepage] Release scheduled for October 2008. Unknow license. Link is currently broken as of 6 April 2009. It's probably defunct.
* VS-Admin: [http://vsadmin.ispbase.net/ homepage] Beta testers wanted (19-06-2009)

Partners

2009-05-18T00:24:55Z

Unixservice: /* Unixservice */

Here are some companies that are working together with OpenVZ project in one or another way. Feel free to add your company profile here ('''in alphabetical order''').

{{Note|Hosting service providers should add their entries to [[Hosting providers]], not here. Thanks.}}

== BinaryKarma ==
[http://www.binarykarma.com BinaryKarma] is offering an multi-hypervisor platform, FluidVM that also supports OpenVZ, apart from Xen. FluidVM supports local and SAN storage and is also extensible via an XML-RPC based API. See [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots] and [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] for more information. FluidVM ships with a browser based interface with which users can manage multiple servers and VEs. BinaryKarma is also the developer of [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net EasyVZ], a GPL'd free GUI available for OpenVZ.

== Blended Perspectives ==

[http://www.blendedperspectives.com Blended Perspectives] is a strategy-to-execution consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Our core offerings are centered on provision of Wiki platforms and OpenVZ is a favoured host operating environment to achieve scale and resiliency.

== Computer Tyme ==
[http://ctyme.com Computer Tyme] is using OpenVZ for their spam filtering service [http://junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com]. They are active proponents of OpenVZ; Marc Perkel worked at the OpenVZ booth during LinuxWorld Expo 2007.

== Fortech I.T. Solutions ==
[http://FortechITSolutions.ca Fortech I.T. Solutions] is an IT consulting company based in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) specializing in open-source solutions. We offer services in a variety of areas, including virtualization solutions based on a number of platforms - including OpenVZ.

== Fry-IT Ltd ==
[http://www.fry-it.com Fry-IT Ltd] is a London based web, mobile and hosting consultancy and among the services we provide are system solutions involving Clustering, Load Balancing and High Availability, with OpenVZ as the virtualization technology of choice.

An example of our consulting work is the OpenVZ cluster powering 6 applications at [http://www.da.mod.uk/ MOD Defence Academy] in the UK, the public website being one of the applications. To our clients, hosted with us or running their own infrastructure, we provide a complete solution from custom OpenVZ scripts, a container resource limits management web application to thorough documentation of system management procedures.

== Impulso Srl ==
[http://impulso.it Impulso] offers white label Internet Services and uses OpenVZ cluster for their managed email services like [http://postalinda.it Posta Linda]. Impulso also offers support for OpenVZ in Italy.

== Inguza Technology AB ==
[http://inguza.com/ Inguza Technology AB] maintains the Debian GNU Linux version of OpenVZ.

== LastSpam ==
[http://www.lastspam.com LastSpam] offers managed e-mail security services (anti-spam and anti-virus/bad content) and uses OpenVZ to deliver excellent service and support to its customers. Ugo Bellavance, LastSpam's head server architect and manager is an active member of the OpenVZ community: helping on the forum, making suggestions, and submitting patches.

== netVOICE communications ==
[http://www.netvoice.ca/ netVOICE communications] is an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) that uses OpenVZ as the basis for their [http://www.vpas.ca/ Virtual Private Asterisk Server (VPAS)] offering. They also offer consulting on running Asterisk (the leading Open Source telephony platform) on OpenVZ. netVOICE is a Digium Approved Reseller and has a Digium Certified Asterisk Professional [http://www.digium.com/en/training/certifications/ (dCAP)] on staff.

== Openwall ==

At [http://www.openwall.com Openwall], we develop our own Open Source software with a focus on security, including [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ Openwall GNU/*/Linux] (or Owl for short), a security-enhanced server platform.
Our [http://www.openwall.com/services/ professional services] include remote installation (you boot off CD, we do the rest) and maintenance (systems and security administration) of OpenVZ-enabled servers and mini-networks of such servers. We typically use the OpenVZ kernel, the Owl userland for the host system, and arbitrary Linux distributions for the containers (most often that's Owl as well - with additional software to meet your needs). We readily have software solutions for provision of advanced LAMP hosting with cross virtual host security separation within each container (that is, not only the containers are separated due to OpenVZ, but also virtual hosts within containers are separated at the OS level), multi-server backups (incremental, remote, encrypted, integrity-checked), monitoring (many custom Nagios sensors, including for things such as backups, filesystem errors, RAID status, etc.), and more.

== Proxmox ==

[http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE] is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running pre-built Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines (based on OpenVZ and also [http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki KVM] for full virtualization).

[http://proxmox.com Proxmox] is [http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/virtualization/openvz/ using OpenVZ] for their spam filtering appliance (see [[Proxmox Mail Gateway in container]]). Proxmox is also the author of [http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/virtualization/openvz/vzdump/ vzdump] utility.

== Revolution Linux ==

[http://www.revolutionlinux.com/ Revolution Linux] is an IT company specialized in large scale infrastructure deployement using Open Source technologies. Most/all of our deployements rely extensively on containers (OpenVZ and Linux Vserver).

== Solarspeed Ltd. ==
[http://www.solarspeed.net Solarspeed Ltd.] is a CentOS + BlueQuartz server specialist, selling server systems and software solutions. We developed [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}], which is a Linux Virtualization Appliance Software. It is based on OpenVZ and is available in a non-clustering and a clustering version. The clustering version uses DRBD and Heartbeat. The GUI interface of [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}] is based on the [http://www.bluequartz.org BlueQuartz] and allows to easily manage and create virtual servers or to perform administrative tasks on the master node. [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}] is available as [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16261&category_id=272 ISO image download], as a ready to run [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16263&category_id=272 Linux Virtualization Appliance] or as a ready to run [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16264&category_id=272 Linux Virtualization Appliance Cluster].

== Solutions First ==
[http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au Solutions First] is a Linux and Open Source infrastructure specialist company. Amongst many other FOSS products, we sell and support OpenVZ for our customers. We are happy to provide support of OpenVZ any Asia-Pacific customers. We have experience in generic container hosting environments, templated applications, HA clusters and much more OpenVZ specific applications.

== SpiderTools.com ==
[http://spidertools.com SpiderTools] provides training for OpenVZ servers. Students work on live servers to gain skills on how to implement OpenVZ. 20% of all sales go back to OpenVZ for development. Students will get 6 weeks of live instruction and support.

== Thomas-Krenn.AG ==
[http://www.thomas-krenn.com/ Thomas-Krenn.AG] is a server specialist, selling server systems and solutions. One of the solution products is a pre-installed [http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/system-solutions/ha-linux-cluster.html cluster system], built with Virtuozzo. They published how to build such a cluster with OpenVZ at [[HA cluster with DRBD and Heartbeat]].

== Unixservice ==
[http://www.unixservice.com/ Unixservice] provides SLAs for critical internet infrastructure provisioning. As we have grown over the past 10 years we have become fervent advocates of running such services on a grid/cluster of OpenVZ (or Virtuozzo) servers. The main R&D team leader has just released our own C based unxsVZ grid/cluster manager (unxsVZ) released under a GPL license, including [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ/wiki/UBCAutonomics autonomic functions] that we have developed based on discrete mathematics and CMU/IBM research. [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ unxsVZ source, yum repository and RPMs here.] Call us now with questions; we even provide free deployment support and container tuning support for DNS/BIND, RADIUS, HTTP Apache hosting, ESMTP stores, ESMTP out and MX edge server farms on large VZ grids.

== See also ==

* [[Hosting providers]] — HSPs using OpenVZ
* [[Download mirrors]] — people and companies providing mirrors for OpenVZ software
* [[Control panels]]
* [[2006 contributions]]

Partners

2009-05-18T00:14:16Z

Unixservice: /* Unixservice */

Here are some companies that are working together with OpenVZ project in one or another way. Feel free to add your company profile here ('''in alphabetical order''').

{{Note|Hosting service providers should add their entries to [[Hosting providers]], not here. Thanks.}}

== BinaryKarma ==
[http://www.binarykarma.com BinaryKarma] is offering an multi-hypervisor platform, FluidVM that also supports OpenVZ, apart from Xen. FluidVM supports local and SAN storage and is also extensible via an XML-RPC based API. See [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots] and [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] for more information. FluidVM ships with a browser based interface with which users can manage multiple servers and VEs. BinaryKarma is also the developer of [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net EasyVZ], a GPL'd free GUI available for OpenVZ.

== Blended Perspectives ==

[http://www.blendedperspectives.com Blended Perspectives] is a strategy-to-execution consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Our core offerings are centered on provision of Wiki platforms and OpenVZ is a favoured host operating environment to achieve scale and resiliency.

== Computer Tyme ==
[http://ctyme.com Computer Tyme] is using OpenVZ for their spam filtering service [http://junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com]. They are active proponents of OpenVZ; Marc Perkel worked at the OpenVZ booth during LinuxWorld Expo 2007.

== Fortech I.T. Solutions ==
[http://FortechITSolutions.ca Fortech I.T. Solutions] is an IT consulting company based in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) specializing in open-source solutions. We offer services in a variety of areas, including virtualization solutions based on a number of platforms - including OpenVZ.

== Fry-IT Ltd ==
[http://www.fry-it.com Fry-IT Ltd] is a London based web, mobile and hosting consultancy and among the services we provide are system solutions involving Clustering, Load Balancing and High Availability, with OpenVZ as the virtualization technology of choice.

An example of our consulting work is the OpenVZ cluster powering 6 applications at [http://www.da.mod.uk/ MOD Defence Academy] in the UK, the public website being one of the applications. To our clients, hosted with us or running their own infrastructure, we provide a complete solution from custom OpenVZ scripts, a container resource limits management web application to thorough documentation of system management procedures.

== Impulso Srl ==
[http://impulso.it Impulso] offers white label Internet Services and uses OpenVZ cluster for their managed email services like [http://postalinda.it Posta Linda]. Impulso also offers support for OpenVZ in Italy.

== Inguza Technology AB ==
[http://inguza.com/ Inguza Technology AB] maintains the Debian GNU Linux version of OpenVZ.

== LastSpam ==
[http://www.lastspam.com LastSpam] offers managed e-mail security services (anti-spam and anti-virus/bad content) and uses OpenVZ to deliver excellent service and support to its customers. Ugo Bellavance, LastSpam's head server architect and manager is an active member of the OpenVZ community: helping on the forum, making suggestions, and submitting patches.

== netVOICE communications ==
[http://www.netvoice.ca/ netVOICE communications] is an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) that uses OpenVZ as the basis for their [http://www.vpas.ca/ Virtual Private Asterisk Server (VPAS)] offering. They also offer consulting on running Asterisk (the leading Open Source telephony platform) on OpenVZ. netVOICE is a Digium Approved Reseller and has a Digium Certified Asterisk Professional [http://www.digium.com/en/training/certifications/ (dCAP)] on staff.

== Openwall ==

At [http://www.openwall.com Openwall], we develop our own Open Source software with a focus on security, including [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ Openwall GNU/*/Linux] (or Owl for short), a security-enhanced server platform.
Our [http://www.openwall.com/services/ professional services] include remote installation (you boot off CD, we do the rest) and maintenance (systems and security administration) of OpenVZ-enabled servers and mini-networks of such servers. We typically use the OpenVZ kernel, the Owl userland for the host system, and arbitrary Linux distributions for the containers (most often that's Owl as well - with additional software to meet your needs). We readily have software solutions for provision of advanced LAMP hosting with cross virtual host security separation within each container (that is, not only the containers are separated due to OpenVZ, but also virtual hosts within containers are separated at the OS level), multi-server backups (incremental, remote, encrypted, integrity-checked), monitoring (many custom Nagios sensors, including for things such as backups, filesystem errors, RAID status, etc.), and more.

== Proxmox ==

[http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE] is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running pre-built Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines (based on OpenVZ and also [http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki KVM] for full virtualization).

[http://proxmox.com Proxmox] is [http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/virtualization/openvz/ using OpenVZ] for their spam filtering appliance (see [[Proxmox Mail Gateway in container]]). Proxmox is also the author of [http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/virtualization/openvz/vzdump/ vzdump] utility.

== Revolution Linux ==

[http://www.revolutionlinux.com/ Revolution Linux] is an IT company specialized in large scale infrastructure deployement using Open Source technologies. Most/all of our deployements rely extensively on containers (OpenVZ and Linux Vserver).

== Solarspeed Ltd. ==
[http://www.solarspeed.net Solarspeed Ltd.] is a CentOS + BlueQuartz server specialist, selling server systems and software solutions. We developed [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}], which is a Linux Virtualization Appliance Software. It is based on OpenVZ and is available in a non-clustering and a clustering version. The clustering version uses DRBD and Heartbeat. The GUI interface of [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}] is based on the [http://www.bluequartz.org BlueQuartz] and allows to easily manage and create virtual servers or to perform administrative tasks on the master node. [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}] is available as [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16261&category_id=272 ISO image download], as a ready to run [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16263&category_id=272 Linux Virtualization Appliance] or as a ready to run [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16264&category_id=272 Linux Virtualization Appliance Cluster].

== Solutions First ==
[http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au Solutions First] is a Linux and Open Source infrastructure specialist company. Amongst many other FOSS products, we sell and support OpenVZ for our customers. We are happy to provide support of OpenVZ any Asia-Pacific customers. We have experience in generic container hosting environments, templated applications, HA clusters and much more OpenVZ specific applications.

== SpiderTools.com ==
[http://spidertools.com SpiderTools] provides training for OpenVZ servers. Students work on live servers to gain skills on how to implement OpenVZ. 20% of all sales go back to OpenVZ for development. Students will get 6 weeks of live instruction and support.

== Thomas-Krenn.AG ==
[http://www.thomas-krenn.com/ Thomas-Krenn.AG] is a server specialist, selling server systems and solutions. One of the solution products is a pre-installed [http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/system-solutions/ha-linux-cluster.html cluster system], built with Virtuozzo. They published how to build such a cluster with OpenVZ at [[HA cluster with DRBD and Heartbeat]].

== Unixservice ==
[http://www.unixservice.com/ Unixservice] provides SLAs for critical internet infrastructure provisioning. As we have grown over the past 10 years we have become fervent advocates of running such services on a grid/cluster of OpenVZ (or Virtuozzo) servers. The main R&D team leader has just released our own C based unxsVZ grid/cluster manager released under a GPL license including advanced computer science autonomic functions that we have developed based on IBM research in the field. [http://openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ unxsVZ source, yum repository and RPMs here.] Call us now with questions; we even provide free deployment support and container tuning support for DNS/BIND, RADIUS, HTTP Apache hosting, ESMTP stores, ESMTP out and MX edge server farms on large VZ grids.

== See also ==

* [[Hosting providers]] — HSPs using OpenVZ
* [[Download mirrors]] — people and companies providing mirrors for OpenVZ software
* [[Control panels]]
* [[2006 contributions]]

Control panels

2008-09-30T21:05:58Z

Unixservice:

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order) ==
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer
* Vtonf: [http://www.vtonf.com/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on Centos 4.5 or higher. Last change January 2008
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Uses Ruby on Rails which makes it a poor choice for Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb style distros.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* FluidVM: [http://www.binarykarma.com Home Page] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots]
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)]
* HyperVM: [http://lxlabs.com/software/hypervm/ homepage]
* vzAdmin: [http://www.vzAdmin.info/ homepage (German)]
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]

== Frozen projects ==
* VZAdmin: [http://www.ronny-goerner.de/ homepage] ''seems not available now''
* WVZ: [http://homaly.dunanet.hu/wvz/ homepage] ''seems frozen''
* New OpenVZ Web Based Control Panel by rsailor: {{forum|230}} ''seems not available now''
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but only working and free control panel?) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.devjavu.com/ homepage]
* OpenVZ Control panel for Windows(r): {{forum|1491}} | [http://downloads.qmailrocks.ru/vz/ downloads] ''unknown license''

== In development ==
* WIVZ/GIVZ: [http://source.icenetx.net/ homepage] Release scheduled for October 2008. Unknow license.
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license.

Control panels

2008-09-30T20:55:50Z

Unixservice: Alphabetical order seems like a fair way to organize

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

== Free software / Open source (In Alphabetical Order) ==
* Proxmox Virtual Environment: [http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE Wiki] - including bare-metal ISO installer
* Vtonf: [http://www.vtonf.com/ homepage] | According to the documentation only runs on Centos 4.5 or higher. Last change January 2008
* Webmin: [http://www.webmin.com/ homepage] | [http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?search=OpenVZ OpenVZ plugin] | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
* WebVZ: [http://webvz.sourceforge.net/ homepage] Uses Ruby on Rails which makes it a poor choice for Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb style distros.

== Proprietary / non-free ==
* FluidVM: [http://www.binarykarma.com Home Page] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] • [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots]
* VZ-Manager: [http://vzmanager.de/ homepage (German)]
* HyperVM: [http://lxlabs.com/software/hypervm/ homepage]
* vzAdmin: [http://www.vzAdmin.info/ homepage (German)]
* Aventurin{e}: [http://www.aventurin.net/ homepage (English)]

== Frozen projects ==
* VZAdmin: [http://www.ronny-goerner.de/ homepage] ''seems not available now''
* WVZ: [http://homaly.dunanet.hu/wvz/ homepage] ''seems frozen''
* New OpenVZ Web Based Control Panel by rsailor: {{forum|230}} ''seems not available now''
* EasyVZ: [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net/ screenshots] | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyvz sf.net project page] (little bit outdated, but only working and free control panel?) (requires Unix/Linux)
* Mwamko: [http://mwamko.devjavu.com/ homepage]
* OpenVZ Control panel for Windows(r): {{forum|1491}} | [http://downloads.qmailrocks.ru/vz/ downloads] ''unknown license''

== In development ==
* WIVZ/GIVZ: [http://source.icenetx.net/ homepage] Release scheduled for October 2008. Unknow license.
* RoboVZ: [http://sharesource.org/project/robovz homepage] {{forum|2559}} Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license.

Partners

2008-09-13T13:02:48Z

Unixservice: Initial add

Here are some companies that are working together with OpenVZ project in one or another way. Feel free to add your company profile here ('''in alphabetical order''').

{{Note|Hosting service providers should add their entries to [[Hosting providers]], not here. Thanks.}}

== BinaryKarma ==
[http://www.binarykarma.com BinaryKarma] is offering an multi-hypervisor platform, FluidVM that also supports OpenVZ, apart from Xen. FluidVM supports local and SAN storage and is also extensible via an XML-RPC based API. See [http://www.binarykarma.com/fluidvm_screenshots.php Screen shots] and [http://www.binarykarma.com/demo.php Demo Videos] for more information. FluidVM ships with a browser based interface with which users can manage multiple servers and VEs. BinaryKarma is also the developer of [http://easyvz.sourceforge.net EasyVZ], a GPL'd free GUI available for OpenVZ.

== Blended Perspectives ==

[http://www.blendedperspectives.com Blended Perspectives] is a strategy-to-execution consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Our core offerings are centered on provision of Wiki platforms and OpenVZ is a favoured host operating environment to achieve scale and resiliency.

== Computer Tyme ==
[http://ctyme.com Computer Tyme] is using OpenVZ for their spam filtering service [http://junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com]. They are active proponents of OpenVZ; Marc Perkel worked at the OpenVZ booth during LinuxWorld Expo 2007.

== Fortech I.T. Solutions ==
[http://FortechITSolutions.ca Fortech I.T. Solutions] is an IT consulting company based in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) specializing in open-source solutions. We offer services in a variety of areas, including virtualization solutions based on a number of platforms - including OpenVZ.

== Fry-IT Ltd ==
[http://www.fry-it.com Fry-IT Ltd] is a London based web, mobile and hosting consultancy and among the services we provide are system solutions involving Clustering, Load Balancing and High Availability, with OpenVZ as the virtualization technology of choice.

An example of our consulting work is the OpenVZ cluster powering 6 applications at [http://www.da.mod.uk/ MOD Defence Academy] in the UK, the public website being one of the applications. To our clients, hosted with us or running their own infrastructure, we provide a complete solution from custom OpenVZ scripts, a container resource limits management web application to thorough documentation of system management procedures.

== Inguza Technology AB ==
[http://inguza.com/ Inguza Technology AB] maintains the Debian GNU Linux version of OpenVZ.

== LastSpam ==
[http://www.lastspam.com LastSpam] offers managed e-mail security services (anti-spam and anti-virus/bad content) and uses OpenVZ to deliver excellent service and support to its customers. Ugo Bellavance, LastSpam's head server architect and manager is an active member of the OpenVZ community: helping on the forum, making suggestions, and submitting patches.

== netVOICE communications ==
[http://www.netvoice.ca/ netVOICE communications] is an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) that uses OpenVZ as the basis for their [http://www.vpas.ca/ Virtual Private Asterisk Server (VPAS)] offering. They also offer consulting on running Asterisk (the leading Open Source telephony platform) on OpenVZ. netVOICE is a Digium Approved Reseller and has a Digium Certified Asterisk Professional [http://www.digium.com/en/training/certifications/ (dCAP)] on staff.

== Openwall ==

At [http://www.openwall.com Openwall], we develop our own Open Source software with a focus on security, including [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ Openwall GNU/*/Linux] (or Owl for short), a security-enhanced server platform.
Our [http://www.openwall.com/services/ professional services] include remote installation (you boot off CD, we do the rest) and maintenance (systems and security administration) of OpenVZ-enabled servers and mini-networks of such servers. We typically use the OpenVZ kernel, the Owl userland for the host system, and arbitrary Linux distributions for the containers (most often that's Owl as well - with additional software to meet your needs). We readily have software solutions for provision of advanced LAMP hosting with cross virtual host security separation within each container (that is, not only the containers are separated due to OpenVZ, but also virtual hosts within containers are separated at the OS level), multi-server backups (incremental, remote, encrypted, integrity-checked), monitoring (many custom Nagios sensors, including for things such as backups, filesystem errors, RAID status, etc.), and more.

== Proxmox ==

[http://pve.proxmox.com Proxmox VE] is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running pre-built Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines (based on OpenVZ and also [http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki KVM] for full virtualization).

[http://proxmox.com Proxmox] is [http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/virtualization/openvz/ using OpenVZ] for their spam filtering appliance (see [[Proxmox Mail Gateway in container]]). Proxmox is also the author of [http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/virtualization/openvz/vzdump/ vzdump] utility.

== Revolution Linux ==

[http://www.revolutionlinux.com/ Revolution Linux] is an IT company specialized in large scale infrastructure deployement using Open Source technologies. Most/all of our deployements rely extensively on containers (OpenVZ and Linux Vserver).

== Solarspeed Ltd. ==
[http://www.solarspeed.net Solarspeed Ltd.] is a CentOS + BlueQuartz server specialist, selling server systems and software solutions. We developed [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}], which is a Linux Virtualization Appliance Software. It is based on OpenVZ and is available in a non-clustering and a clustering version. The clustering version uses DRBD and Heartbeat. The GUI interface of [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}] is based on the [http://www.bluequartz.org BlueQuartz] and allows to easily manage and create virtual servers or to perform administrative tasks on the master node. [http://www.aventurin.net Aventurin{e}] is available as [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16261&category_id=272 ISO image download], as a ready to run [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16263&category_id=272 Linux Virtualization Appliance] or as a ready to run [http://www.solarspeed.net/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16264&category_id=272 Linux Virtualization Appliance Cluster].

== Solutions First ==
[http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au Solutions First] is a Linux and Open Source infrastructure specialist company. Amongst many other FOSS products, we sell and support OpenVZ for our customers. We are happy to provide support of OpenVZ any Asia-Pacific customers. We have experience in generic container hosting environments, templated applications, HA clusters and much more OpenVZ specific applications.

== SpiderTools.com ==
[http://spidertools.com SpiderTools] provides training for OpenVZ servers. Students work on live servers to gain skills on how to implement OpenVZ. 20% of all sales go back to OpenVZ for development. Students will get 6 weeks of live instruction and support.

== Thomas-Krenn.AG ==
[http://www.thomas-krenn.com/ Thomas-Krenn.AG] is a server specialist, selling server systems and solutions. One of the solution products is a pre-installed [http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/system-solutions/ha-linux-cluster.html cluster system], built with Virtuozzo. They published how to build such a cluster with OpenVZ at [[HA cluster with DRBD and Heartbeat]].

== Unixservice ==
[http://www.unixservice.com/ Unixservice] provides SLAs for critical internet infrastructure provisioning. As we have grown over the past 10 years we have become fervent advocates of running such services on a grid/cluster of OpenVZ (or Virtuozzo) servers. The main R&D team leader is working on getting our own C based unxsVZ grid/cluster manager released shortly under a GPL license including advanced computer science autonomic functions that we have developed based on IBM research in the field. Call us now with questions; we even provide free deployment support and container tuning support for DNS/BIND, RADIUS, HTTP Apache hosting, ESMTP stores, ESMTP out and MX edge server farms on large VZ grids.

== See also ==

* [[Hosting providers]] — HSPs using OpenVZ
* [[Download mirrors]] — people and companies providing mirrors for OpenVZ software
* [[Control panels]]
* [[2006 contributions]]