Parallels H-Sphere - 3.6.2 Service manual

Adding New Parallels H-Sphere Servers
and Services

Parallels H-Sphere 3.6.2

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Contents

Preface 4

Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 4

Feedback ....................................................................................................................................... 5

About This Guide 6

Adding Parallels H-Sphere Servers and Services 7

Step 1. Adding Physical Servers ................................................................................................... 7

Step 2. Adding the IP of the Physical Server to ips-map.xml File ................................................. 9

Step 3. Adding Logical Servers ..................................................................................................... 9

Step 4. Installing New Parallels H-Sphere Server/Service on the Box ....................................... 10

Option 1. Running the Update Wizard from the Interface ................................................. 11

Option 2. Running the Update Wizard from Command Line ............................................. 11

Adding Parallels H-Sphere Virtual Private Servers 12

Step 1. Preparing a Box for Parallels H-Sphere VPS Host Installation ....................................... 13

Host Operating Systems ................................................................................................... 13

VPS Operating Systems .................................................................................................... 13

Hardware Requirements ................................................................................................... 15

Step 2. Installing Parallels H-Sphere VPS .................................................................................. 15

Step 3. Editing the Boot Loader Configuration File ..................................................................... 16

Step 4. Rebooting the Server ...................................................................................................... 18

Step 5. Checking the Kernel Version ........................................................................................... 18

Step 6. Configuring VPS Host ..................................................................................................... 18

Step 7. Configuring Network Gateways....................................................................................... 18

Updating Parallels H-Sphere Virtual Private Servers .................................................................. 19

In this chapter:

Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 4

Feedback .......................................................................................................... 5

Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Items you must select,
such as menu options,
command buttons, or
items in a list.

Go to the System tab.
Titles of chapters,
sections, and
subsections.

Read the Basic
Administration chapter.

Italics

Used to emphasize the
importance of a point, to
introduce a term or to
designate a command
line placeholder, which is
to be replaced with a real
name or value.

The system supports the
so called wildcard
character search.

Monospace

The names of
commands, files,
directories, and domain
names.

The license file is located
in the

http://docs/common/

licenses directory.

C H A P T E R 1

Preface

Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation
conventions used in it.

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Preface 5

Preformatted

On-screen computer
output in your command­line sessions; source
code in XML, C++, or
other programming
languages.

# ls –al /files

total 14470

Preformatted
Bold

What you type,
contrasted with on-screen
computer output.

# cd /root/rpms/php

CAPITALS

Names of keys on the
keyboard.

SHIFT, CTRL, ALT

KEY+KEY

Key combinations for
which the user must
press and hold down one
key and then press
another.

CTRL+P, ALT+F4

Feedback

If you have found a mistake in this guide, or if you have suggestions or ideas on how to
improve this guide, please send your feedback using the online form at

http://www.parallels.com/en/support/usersdoc/. Please include in your report the

guide's title, chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you have found
an error.

This document provides a step-by-step instruction on adding new Parallels H-Sphere

C H A P T E R 2

About This Guide

3.6.1 physical boxes and adding new logical servers (or services: Web, mail, DNS,
etc.).

Note: Before adding new physical boxes to Parallels H-Sphere, you need to prepare
them as described in the section Preparing for Parallels H-Sphere Installation of
Parallels H-Sphere Installation Guide.