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Archive for September, 2009

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Here are commands to help adjust the memory / RAM for an OpenVZ VPS: 64MB Guaranteed, 128MB Burstable cid=1000 vzctl set ${cid} –vmguarpages 64M –save vzctl set ${cid} –oomguarpages 64M –save vzctl set ${cid} –privvmpages 64M:128M –save 256MB Guaranteed, 512MB Burstable cid=1000 vzctl set ${cid} –vmguarpages 256M –save vzctl set ${cid} –oomguarpages 256M –save vzctl [...]

Categories: Featured, OpenVZ
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I still use a lot of NFS connections on my equipment and when I create OpenVZ VPS systems I need them to have access to NFS. Here are the steps I use: From the Host Node (HN): modprobe nfs vzctl set 101 –features "nfs:on" –save From the VPS: yum -y install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib chkconfig –levels [...]

Categories: CentOS5, OpenVZ
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Here is my quick-and dirty way to build DNS servers using OpenVZ, CentOS and Bind/Named. This assumes you are creating a new server via OpenVZ. Although Bind is easy to admin with the configuration files recently I have found it is easier to simply admin the zones with Webmin. This setup will create the VPS, [...]

Categories: CentOS5, OpenVZ
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There are a few tutorials out there on installing OpenVZ in CentOS 5.3. Here are the steps I use to install OpenVZ on a brand new installation of CentOS 5.3: Note: this tutorial / walkthrough is for use 64 bit only Update the box via yum Install the OpenVZ Repository and grab the GPG key [...]

Categories: CentOS5, OpenVZ

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