About platform
- Key terms
- Server requirements
- Support stages
- Licensing
- Maximum configuration values
- Self-service portal
- Interaction of ISPsystem products
- Workstation setup
- Data collection
- VMmanager versions
Installation and update
- Installation
- Update
Getting started
- Account setup
- Connecting the SSL certificate
- Mail server configuration
- Client service
- Using a proxy
- User interface
- Using filters
- Access for technical support
- Setting the time zone
- Branding
Usage scripts
- Deploying a platform and high availability cluster
Users
- User permissions
- Adding a user
- Operations with users
- Creating the admin.readonly user
- Synchronization with the LDAP directory
- Two-factor authentication
- Authentication restrictions
- Restricting user access to the platform
- Determining real IP addresses of users
- Session lifetime
Networks
- Networks, IP pools and ranges
- Networks management
- Pools management
- IP addresses management
- Managing IPv6
- Assigning IP addresses with OS tools
- Connecting DNSBL
- Main and additional network
- Operating in a private network
Clusters
- Server requirements for the cluster
- Cluster network configurations
- IP fabric
- LXD
- Overselling
- Creating a cluster
- Managing servers in the cluster
- Managing cluster storages
- High availability clusters
  - Operating principle of high availability clusters
  - Configuring high availability
- Network setting on the cluster node
- Bond operating modes
- Maintenance mode
- Balancer
- Template of network settings
Virtual machines
- Creating a virtual machine
- Selecting a cluster node for the virtual machine
- Operations with virtual machines
- Managing VM disks
- Selecting storage for VM disks
- Managing VM IP addresses
- Snapshots of virtual machines
- Linked clones
- Fine-tuning of virtual machines
- Migration of virtual machines
- Protection of virtual machines
- Restricting access to a VM
- Mounting an ISO image
- Supported guest OS
- Specifics of VM running on Windows
- Disaster recovery in a cluster with network storage
- Recovery mode
- Network settings of virtual machines
- Minimal configuration of virtual machines
Backups
- Backups. General information
- Backup storage
- Creating backups manually
- Creating backups automatically
- Creating platform backups
Storages
- Storage types
- LVM storage
- Configuring Ceph RBD
  - Pre-configuring Ceph
  - Creating an RBD storage
- ZFS
- Network LVM storage
- NAS
Templates
- Operating systems
- Creating a disk image
- Configurations of virtual machines
- Repositories
- Answer files for OS Windows images
Scripts
- Creating a script for the VM
- Running scripts on the VM
- Creating a script for the node
- Variables for scripts
- Email templates in scripts
- Filters for running scripts
Monitoring
- Dashboard
- Tasks list
- Notifications
- Sending notifications to Telegram
- Grafana
- Zabbix
- Nagios
- Managing statistics
Modules
- Integration with DNSmanager 6 module
- Integration with IPmanager 6 module
- Integration with PowerDNS module
Integration
- Integration with BILLmanager
- Integration with WHMCS
Migration
- Migration from VMmanager 5 to VMmanager 6
- Importing a VM to VMmanager
- Moving an OVZ container to LXD cluster
- Moving VMmanager to a new server
- Migrating from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8
- Migrating from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8
IaaS solutions (SDN)
- Virtual networks (VxLAN)
IaC solutions
- Installation via Ansible
- Infrastructure management via Terraform
Internal operation logic
- Subsystems used
- VMmanager structure
- Platform log files
- Audit event logging
Developer section
- API guide
- API
- Examples of how to use API
- Using Swagger
- Creating a dummy cluster
Q&A
- How to change netfilter parameters?
- How to add a physical network with a gateway from another subnet?
- How to check and restore QEMU Guest Agent?
- How to set up an IP check before allocation?
- How to disable nested virtualization?

VMmanager: Administrator guide

About platform
- Key terms
- Server requirements
- Support stages
- Licensing
- Maximum configuration values
- Self-service portal
- Interaction of ISPsystem products
- Workstation setup
- Data collection
- VMmanager versions
Installation and update
- Installation
- Update
Getting started
- Account setup
- Connecting the SSL certificate
- Mail server configuration
- Client service
- Using a proxy
- User interface
- Using filters
- Access for technical support
- Setting the time zone
- Branding
Usage scripts
- Deploying a platform and high availability cluster
Users
- User permissions
- Adding a user
- Operations with users
- Creating the admin.readonly user
- Synchronization with the LDAP directory
- Two-factor authentication
- Authentication restrictions
- Restricting user access to the platform
- Determining real IP addresses of users
- Session lifetime
Networks
- Networks, IP pools and ranges
- Networks management
- Pools management
- IP addresses management
- Managing IPv6
- Assigning IP addresses with OS tools
- Connecting DNSBL
- Main and additional network
- Operating in a private network
Clusters
- Server requirements for the cluster
- Cluster network configurations
- IP fabric
- LXD
- Overselling
- Creating a cluster
- Managing servers in the cluster
- Managing cluster storages
- High availability clusters
  - Operating principle of high availability clusters
  - Configuring high availability
- Network setting on the cluster node
- Bond operating modes
- Maintenance mode
- Balancer
- Template of network settings
Virtual machines
- Creating a virtual machine
- Selecting a cluster node for the virtual machine
- Operations with virtual machines
- Managing VM disks
- Selecting storage for VM disks
- Managing VM IP addresses
- Snapshots of virtual machines
- Linked clones
- Fine-tuning of virtual machines
- Migration of virtual machines
- Protection of virtual machines
- Restricting access to a VM
- Mounting an ISO image
- Supported guest OS
- Specifics of VM running on Windows
- Disaster recovery in a cluster with network storage
- Recovery mode
- Network settings of virtual machines
- Minimal configuration of virtual machines
Backups
- Backups. General information
- Backup storage
- Creating backups manually
- Creating backups automatically
- Creating platform backups
Storages
- Storage types
- LVM storage
- Configuring Ceph RBD
  - Pre-configuring Ceph
  - Creating an RBD storage
- ZFS
- Network LVM storage
- NAS
Templates
- Operating systems
- Creating a disk image
- Configurations of virtual machines
- Repositories
- Answer files for OS Windows images
Scripts
- Creating a script for the VM
- Running scripts on the VM
- Creating a script for the node
- Variables for scripts
- Email templates in scripts
- Filters for running scripts
Monitoring
- Dashboard
- Tasks list
- Notifications
- Sending notifications to Telegram
- Grafana
- Zabbix
- Nagios
- Managing statistics
Modules
- Integration with DNSmanager 6 module
- Integration with IPmanager 6 module
- Integration with PowerDNS module
Integration
- Integration with BILLmanager
- Integration with WHMCS
Migration
- Migration from VMmanager 5 to VMmanager 6
- Importing a VM to VMmanager
- Moving an OVZ container to LXD cluster
- Moving VMmanager to a new server
- Migrating from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8
- Migrating from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8
IaaS solutions (SDN)
- Virtual networks (VxLAN)
IaC solutions
- Installation via Ansible
- Infrastructure management via Terraform
Internal operation logic
- Subsystems used
- VMmanager structure
- Platform log files
- Audit event logging
Developer section
- API guide
- API
- Examples of how to use API
- Using Swagger
- Creating a dummy cluster
Q&A
- How to change netfilter parameters?
- How to add a physical network with a gateway from another subnet?
- How to check and restore QEMU Guest Agent?
- How to set up an IP check before allocation?
- How to disable nested virtualization?

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Monitoring

Monitoring

Dashboard
Tasks list
Notifications
Sending notifications to Telegram
Grafana
Zabbix
Nagios
Managing statistics

The article was last updated on 03.11.2025. The article was prepared by technical writers of ISPsystem.

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