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

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