How to add OpenVZ templates to the SolusVM?

add OpenVZ templates to the SolusVM

Step:1 Connect to the SolusVM Master server via SSH

Step:2 Change directory to /vz/template/cache directory

cd /vz/template/cache/

Step:3 Download pre-created template from the listed on the OpenVZ site

wget http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
ls -l /vz/template/cache/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145639219 Nov 27 2016 /vz/template/cache/centos-7-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz

Step:4 Then, log in to the SolusVM web interface and navigate to Dashboard > Media > Add OpenVZ Template.

Step:5 Select the uploaded template from the drop-down menu next to the Template field, fill in the Name, Description, and Arch fields, and then click the Add Template button.

After completing the preceding steps, the template will be available on the build VPS page.

If there are any slave OpenVZ nodes, the templates must be synchronised with the Master nodes.

Navigate to the Dashboard > Media > Media Sync > Create tab in the SolusVM Master web interface.

Select the template and OpenVZ slave node

Select the Create Sync Job option.


WARNING: Check to see if the directory /vz/templates/cache/ exists on the slave server, and if not, create it. Otherwise, the task of synchronisation will fail.