Configuring VPS Hosting package
- In HostBill go to Settings → Products & Services, and Add new order page
- From Order Types select VPS Accounts
- After creating order page add new product in it, provide name & Save changes
- In product configuration section proceed to Connect with App, select Proxmox module and App server created in previous steps.
Provisioning Section
Select "Single VPS"
One account in HostBill = 1 virtual machine in Proxmox VE
Under Resources Tab
Virtualization
- Select virtualization method for this package. This will affect other options, like templates / ISO loaded under OS Templates tab
User Role
- Select a role with the access privileges you want to grant the user when accessing the Proxmox control panel. The selected role does not affect actions available in the hostbill client area except console access, for that, you need to pick a role with VM.Console privilege
User Group
- Optionally select user group to assign customer in Proxmox
Memory [MB]
- Enter total amout of memory that will be available for the VM
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order" to let client adjust this limit during signup
Swap [GB] (LXC Only)
- Enter the amout of swap that will be used to create client Container
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order" to let client adjust this limit during signup
CPU Cores
- Enter Number of cores per socket.
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
CPU Units
- Enter the number of CPU units assigned to client VM
CPU Type (KVM Only)
- Select the type of CPU used by VM
Available nodes
- Select nodes customer VM will be created on.
- If more than one selected, HostBill will provision VM on least used Node
- Optionally use "Allow to select by client during checkout"
Node selection
- Select which policy to use when selecting nodes for provisioning.
OS Templates Section
ISO Storage:
Select storage your clients will be able to choose ISO / OS templates from.
Note:
ISO stores should share name/id across nodes, HostBill will assume that selected ISO is available on all nodes configured with this product
OS Template
Your client VM will be automatically provisioned with this template
Use "Allow client to select during checkout" to set prices for templates, and let customer pick his OS template durign signup.
HostBill will load OS Templates / ISO Images depending on Virtualization selected in 'Resources tab'.
For LXC / OpenVZ - it will load OS Templates
For KVM - it will load ISO images and VM Templates
Storage Section
Disk size [GB]
- Enter total amount of disk space customer virtual machines can allocate
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order" to set prices per GB
Storage
- Customer VM's disk will be created on selected storage.
- Use Auto-assign to assign random storage
- Optionally use "Allow client to select during order" to let client decide during order / apply charge per storage
Bus/Device (KVM Only)
Select bus/device available for client.
SCSI Controller (KVM Only)
Select controller type for SCSI devices.
SSD Emulation (KVM Only)
Enable if you want drives to be presented to the guest as a solid-state drive rather than a rotational hard disk. Some guest OS will require this to be able to issue TRIM commands.
Note that this option is not supported on VirtIO drives.
Discard (KVM Only)
Select if you want to enable discard/trim on VM disks. When enabled
Cache (KVM Only)
Select cache option enabled on VM disks.
Disk Format (KVM Only)
- Raw disk image (raw)
- QUEMU image format (qcow2)
- VMWare image format (vmdk)
Disk Resize (KVM Only, cloned VM)
Select if you want to resize VM boot disk if selected Disk size is bigger than the cloned VM disk or if you want to add an additional disk.
ISO Storage (KVM Only)
Select storage location for ISO images uploaded by clients. It should be separate from OS Template ISO storage if you want to make those images private.
ISO Limit (KVM Only)
Number of ISO images that clients can upload on this account.
Backup Section
Backups limit
- Enter number of backups customer can take.
- Optionally enable "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
Backups size [GB]
- Enter total amount of disk space customer backups can take
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
Backup Storage
- Backup will be saved to selected storage. Selecting multiple options will use random storage for each backup
- Optionally use "Allow client to select during order"
Backup method
Select from available backup methods:
- Snapshot
- Suspend
- Stop
Compression
Select from available backup compression methods:
- raw (none)
- LZO
- GZIP
Snapshot Limit
- Enter number of snapshots customer can create.
- Optionally enable "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
Network Section
IPv4 Limit
- Number of IP v4 addresses that can be allocated.
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
IPv6 Limit
- Number of IP v6 addresses that can be allocated.
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
Port Speed [Mbps]
- Leave blank to unlimited.
- This value will be used for all Virtual Machine interfaces.
- Optionally use "Allow client to select during order"
Bandwidth Source
Select app/server from where bandwidth usage data will be collected. This also affects network usage graphs displayed in client area.
When using external app hostbill will look for ports named the same as "tap" interface on proxmox host, ie tap100i0 for VM 100 net0.
- Proxmox - default, usage data is collected from proxmox every 5 min by reading changes to netin and netout values. Usage graphs use VM rrd data and display combined usage for all interfaces.
- Other - usage is imported form selected app every hour. Graphs show usage for each interface separately.
Bandwidth Limit
Enable this option if you want to limit bandwidth used by client. Bandwidth usage is calculated monthly regardless of account billing period.
- Disabled
- Enabled, separate limits for data sent and received
- Enabled, combined data sent and received limit
When changing from separate to combined limit with cart forms enabled, you will have to migrate user selected limits using Migrate Data Sent & Received values to this field option.
Data sent
- Only when Enabled, separate limits for data sent and received is selected
- Amount of outgoing traffic that client is allowed to use without restrictions
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
Data received
- Only when Enabled, separate limits for data sent and received is selected
- Amount of incoming traffic that client is allowed to use without restrictions
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
Data sent & received
- Only when Enabled, combined data sent and received limit is selected
- Amount of incoming and outgoing traffic that client is allowed to use without restrictions
- Optionally use "Allow client to adjust with slider during order"
On bandwidth overuse
Selected action will occur when service bandwidth limit is exceeded.
- Limit Port Speed to selected speed (Mbps)
- Suspend account
- No action on server, only notify.
Notification Email
- Select if you want to send out notification for clients when their bandwidth usage reaches selected percentage.
Network mode (OpenVZ Only)
- Bridged
- Routed (venet) - this option requres IPAM plugin to assign IP address to VM
Network bridge
- Provisioning will use random bridge from the list of selected options.
- When multiple options selected clients will have an option to chose which bridge to use when adding new interface.
- When using multiple nodes make sure your bridge names are the same acr