Who needs OpenVZ ?

**swapnilm** · 09-27-2006, 07:47 PM

Q. Who needs OpenVZ?

A. The short answer is - every system administrator needs it. Some examples of practical applications:

Hosting - all ranges on the same platform, from low-level shared to medium-power virtual server to powerful dedicated servers - seamless scaling up in the same safe virtual private server.
Server consolidation - put together your existing servers and use more powerful and reliable hardware.
Increase availability - keep an up-to-date copy of your virtual private server on another server, and start it in seconds in case of failure
Education - each student gets its own virtual server with root access
Testing - safe experimentation on the machine that runs another services
Clean sandbox - install each service in its own freshly created Virtual Private Server, and you will never have to resolve dependency problems
Improve network services security - run each server in its own Virtual Private Server. If the application has a security hole, only this particular virtual private server will be compromised, never the whole system.

-- Swapnil Mankar

**nevaeh** · 06-27-2010, 08:27 PM

How long does it take to install OpenVZ. Is this something you need to plan a day for or something that can be done in only a few hours?

**Chirag O** · 06-27-2010, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by nevaeh

Is this something you need to plan a day for or something that can be done in only a few hours?

The installation of OpenVZ does not take more than 2-3 hours if everything goes well

**nevaeh** · 07-03-2010, 11:09 PM

That is good to hear. My day is so busy that I might have to either clone myself or make a time machine. Are there any tips to help make sure that "all goes well? Thanks