Deploy SolusVM Master Node – How to do it quickly?

Wondering how to deploy SolusVM Master Node? We can help you.

As part of our Server Management Services, we assist our customers with several SolusVM queries.

Today, let us see how our Support Techs perform this task.

Deploy SolusVM Master Node

In oder to begin, our Support Techs recommend a few installation requirements.

Clean install of CentOS/RHEL/Scientific with one of the supported OSes:

• CentOS 6/7
• RHEL 6/7
• Scientific Linux 6/7
• OpenVZ 6/7 (for OpenVZ containers)

SolusVM Master does not support its installation on Xen/KVM slave servers.

Our Support Techs does not recommend installing SolusVM Master on the server that has any other control panel installed.

For example, Virtualization, Plesk, cPanel, etc.

• Slave only Master Installation

This method of installation allows us to add only slave nodes.

We cannot provision OpenVZ containers on the same node where SolusVM Master is installed.

Once we deploy the clean server, we connect to it via SSH

After that, we download and run SolusVM Installer:

# wget https://files.soluslabs.com/install.sh

# sh install.sh

Eventually, on the main menu screen, we select option 1

Once done, we need to wait for the installer to complete the installation.

Finally, we access SolusVM web interface using a link that the installer generates.

• Master node + OpenVZ installation

Our Support Techs says it is possible to install SolusVM Master on the OpenVZ server.

Doing so will help containers to provision on the same server where SolusVM Master is installed.

In order to do that, we prepare the server with OpenVZ installed using an installation ISO image

Then we download and run SolusVM Installer:

# wget https://files.soluslabs.com/install.sh

# sh install.sh

On the main menu screen, we select option 2 or 3 depending on the requirement of basic templates.

Once done, we wait for the installer to complete the installation.

After that, we can access the SolusVM web interface using a link the installer generates.

Conclusion

In short, we saw how our Support Techs go about the deployment of SolusVM Master Node.