First, you’d need to install Debian on your server. For DelimiterVPS, go to https://clients.delimitervps.com/clientarea.php, and login to your account.
Choose the Reinstall server option.
Under ‘Installation Profile’, choose ‘Debian Wheezy’.
Choose a good enough root password. From personal experience, I’d avoid special characters in my root password. I had setup a very complex password once, and found that it was not accepted by the ssh login shell. It’s likely that WHMCS does not escape special characters very well.
Choose ‘Provision Server (Warning)’.
At this point, go back to the email you received from DelimiterVPS, and read the part about KVM/ILO Configuration. You can login to ILO and watch the installation progress. Once installation is done, Proxmox is supposed to be up and running at https://yourip::8006. However we need a couple of steps and a reboot before we can use it.
Run the following:
cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvz-rhel6.list deb http://download.openvz.org/debian wheezy main EOF
wget http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/archive.key apt-key add archive.key apt-get update
Install OpenVZ kernel:
apt-get install linux-image-openvz-amd64
First, you have to remove the default Linux kernel, and set the OpenVZ kernel to start at boot.
Run the following from the shell:
apt-get remove linux-image-amd64 linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 linux-base update-grub
You’ll notice that openvz based kernels have now been added to grub (the bootloader).
Enable IP forwarding and other rules are setup:
Edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf, and uncomment/add (Remove the # at the beginning) the following lines:
# On Hardware Node we generally need # packet forwarding enabled and proxy arp disabled net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding = 1 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.proxy_arp = 0 # Enables source route verification net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1 # Enables the magic-sysrq key kernel.sysrq = 1 # We do not want all our interfaces to send redirects net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0
run the following:
sysctl -p apt-get install vzctl vzquota ploop vzstats
Now, restart the server.
reboot
Run the following:
wget -O - http://ovz-web-panel.googlecode.com/svn/installer/ai.sh | sh
After some time the installation may stop with the following message:
Fatal error: Panel requires Ruby 1.8 (Ruby 1.9 is not supported).
Run:
update-alternatives --config ruby
# update-alternatives --config ruby There are 2 choices for the alternative ruby (providing /usr/bin/ruby). Selection Path Priority Status ------------------------------------------------------------ * 0 /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 51 auto mode 1 /usr/bin/ruby1.8 50 manual mode 2 /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 51 manual mode Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
Now rerun the installation:
wget -O - http://ovz-web-panel.googlecode.com/svn/installer/ai.sh | sh
At the end, you will get the message:
Panel should be available at: http://x.droidzone.in:3000 Default credentials: admin/admin
Now login, and change the default password.
You can now install OpenVZ templates(Physical servers>Localhost>OS Templates>Install new OS Template).
Assign ips to the pool (Ip Addresses>Create new IP pool). Add the IPs assigned to you. You may need to buy more from your provider.
To create a VPS:
Localhost>Virtual servers list>Create virtual server
Creating a custom template.
Provision a VPS using a default template.
Login to the VPS, setup everything including resolvconf, tzdata, locales, dialog, .bashrc etc.
vzctl stop 1 vzctl set 1 --ipdel all --save cd /var/lib/vz/private/1 tar --numeric-owner -czf /var/lib/vz/template/cache/debian-7.0-x86_64-minimal-custom.tar.gz .
Change default port and enable SSL on Openvz web panel:
Change the following in /etc/owp.conf:
# web server port PORT=3000
to
PORT=2096
and
# SSL support, on - enable, off - disable SSL=off
to
SSL=on
Restart the service. Now it is accessible at https://yourdomain.com:2096
I chose 2096 because it is one of the ports that Cloudflare supports and thus you get a free SSL support with Cloudflare.
Create a symlink to /vz because most of the vz tools expects the OpenVZ folders to reside there. This step is not necessary, but can eliminate further problems when other vz related components are installed.
ln -s /var/lib/vz /vz
You also probably need to change:
#NEIGHBOUR_DEVS="detect"
to
NEIGHBOUR_DEVS="all"
at /etc/vz/vz.conf
and do a
service vz restart
For Reference, my network config on node is as below:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 157.266.186.60
netmask 255.255.255.192
network 157.266.186.0
broadcast 157.266.186.63
gateway 157.266.186.62
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8
dns-search droidzone.in
And my two addon ips are:
157.266.187.162/32 157.266.187.163/32
Obviously the ips have been scrambled.
Joel G Mathew, known in tech circles by the pseudonym Droidzone, is an opensource and programming enthusiast.
He is a full stack developer, whose favorite languages are currently Python and Vue.js. He is also fluent in Javascript, Flutter/Dart, Perl, PHP, SQL, C and bash shell scripting. He loves Linux, and can often be found tinkering with linux kernel code, and source code for GNU applications. He used to be an active developer on XDA forums, and his tinkered ROMS used to be very popular in the early 2000s.
His favorite pastime is grappling with GNU compilers, discovering newer Linux secrets, writing scripts, hacking roms, and programs (nothing illegal), reading, blogging. and testing out the latest gadgets.
When away from the tech world, Dr Joel G. Mathew is a practising ENT Surgeon, busy with surgeries and clinical practise.