This chapter familiarizes you with the OpenVZ network structure, lists networking components, and explains how to manage these components in your working environments. In particular, it provides the following information:

  • How you can manage network adapters on the hardware node.
  • What virtual networks are and how you can manage them on the hardware node.
  • How to create virtual network adapters inside your virtual machines and containers and configure their parameters.
  • How to connect virtual machines and containers to different networks.