Linux VPS Hosting - How Tos - Installation Guide

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Following are the basic requirements of creating VPS Hosting Server Node :

The Hardware Node requirements for the standard 32-bit edition of Virtuozzo Containers are the following:


VPS Server Hardware Node Requirements (32-bit) :

- IBM Server
- Intel Celeron / P III, Intel P4, Xeon, AMD Athlon
- 128MB RAM
- 15GB Disk Space
- SCSI Controllers
- Network Card

Operating System - Linux with the following flavours can easily install Virtuozzo containers on the Server Hardware Node with Kernel 2.6 :

- RHEL 4
- RHEL 5
- centOS 4
- centOS 5
- FedoraCore 7
- FedoraCore 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

Following are list of support 64-bit processors that are supported by Virtuozzo containers :

- AMD Athlon 64
- AMD Opteron
- AMD Turion 64
- AMD Sempron
- Intel Xeon 64-bit
- Intel Celeron D
- Intel Pentium 4
- Intel Itanium 2 (IA-64)

64-bit version Virtuozzo Server Hardware Node can be installed on the following Linux Distribution with Kernel 2.6 :

- RHEL 4
- RHEL 5
- centOS 4
- centOS 5
- FedoraCore 7
- FedoraCore 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

Following are the network requirements of a Virtuozzo Container :

- LAN - Hardware Node
- Internet Connection
- IP address - Default Gateway, Network Mask, DNS Configuration
- Dedicated IP address for each Virtual Private Server
- Firewall Access to each Container for incoming / outgoing connections