Resource management

OpenVZ resource management is a set of controls providing per-VE limits. These limits may be used to encourage VEs to coexist gracefully on a single physical server.

OpenVZ resource management includes these primary controllers:

• User beancounters
• Disk quota
• CPU Fair scheduler
• I/O priorities for VE and IO accounting

OpenVZ administrators can also use the following mainstream Linux mechanisms:

• Traffic accounting with iptables
• Traffic shaping with tc