I want to install OpenVZ on my server(fedora10), and then assign a block of ips to each of the vps. I have a moderate amount of linux knowlege, how much effort is involved to setup what I just described and maintain it? all suggestions are welcome.
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Somewhere between an hour and the rest of your life. | |||
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Starting from scratch with a moderate amount of Linux experience, you should be up and running in two to three days, a week tops. Figuring out how you're going to maintain it, back everything up, move containers if necessary, etc...well, you'll want to devote a few weeks. That's all if you want to run pre-created OS templates...if you want to run something for which there is no template available, you'll be spending another week or two figuring all that out. I ran a few Linux clients in OpenVZ for a year or two...until very recently. It worked ok and was very fast. If I was starting over now, I would probably look at VMWare ESXi and the like. I might use OpenVZ again if I ever have the need to run a large number of containers on a single piece of hardware (web hosting or application containment?), or if I was uber-concerned about performance. Otherwise, I'm sticking to standard virtualization because it's considerably more flexible (e.g. different operating systems on a single host; easier to install an arbitrary OS; etc) , and the performance overhead isn't awful. | |||
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