## Managing Hardware Nodes

In your Data Center you can have different Hardware Nodes registered:

- Servers Running Virtuozzo. Either used for VE hosting provisioning or dedicated Hardware Nodes owned by your customers or resellers.
- Servers running Plesk. Either used for Plesk domains provisioning or dedicated Plesk servers owned by your customers or resellers.
- Dedicated servers that run the third-party software. These servers cannot be managed on the system level from the Provider Control Center web-based interface. However, in this case, the HSPcomplete will take care of all the billing matters including creation of dedicated subscription, charging a customer, issuing the renewal order, sending notifications, etc.

Nodes can be both the physical servers and virtual ones (e.g., Virtuozzo VEs that run the Plesk Server Administrator). Virtual nodes are grouped under the separate tab.

Hardware Nodes can be registered and managed using the Operations Director - Infrastructure Manager - Hardware Nodes.

Virtual Nodes are being registered automatically, after the Plesk Server in VE subscription is activated.

To register a another Hardware Node, click the New Hardware Node button. To access Hardware Node configuration section, please click on the Hardware node hostname.

The list of nodes displays the following:

- ID - Numerical identifier, assigned to the Hardware Node.
- Shortname - Hardware node friendly name.
- IP Address - Current IP address for communication.
- Accts - The number of subscriptions on a Hardware Node:
  - For Virtuozzo Nodes - the number of VEs on a node. If the number of VEs is limited, then the current number and the maximal allowed number of VEs will be shown, e.g., "40 of 100" means that a node runs 40 VEs of the 100 allowed.
  - For Plesk Nodes - the number of Plesk domains existing on a Node.
- New Accts - Whether it is allowed to create more subscriptions on a Node. Green tick indicates that yes, red cross - that not.
- Platform - Software installed on a Hardware Node:
  - Linux Vz2.0 - RedHat Linux Operating System with Virtuozzo 2.0 (or higher version) installed;
  - Linux Vz2.6 - RedHat Linux Operating System with Virtuozzo 2.6 (or higher version) installed;
  - Plesk 7 Unix - Hardware Node runs Plesk 7 for Unix.
  - Plesk 7 Windows - Hardware Node runs Plesk 7 for Microsoft Windows.
  - Windows Vz3.0 - Hardware Node that runs Virtuozzo 3.0 for Windows.
  - Non-VZ - An arbitrary Operating System without Virtuozzo support.
  - FreeBSD - FreeBSD Operating System installed;
- Version:
  - For Virtuozzo nodes the full version of the VzAgent running on a node.
  - For Plesk nodes - the OS installed and the full version of Plesk Server Administrator installed on a node.
- Reg. Status - The current Hardware Node status in respect to its manageability via your Control Center web-based interface:
  - Registered - the connection with a Hardware Node was established successfully, a Hardware Node is fully manageable
  - Conflicts - some problems occurred during registration. You can view the conflicts (and resolve them) if you click on a Hardware Node name and once a Hardware Node properties appear on the screen, select the Conflicts tab.
  - Unregistered - the connection with a Hardware Node is not established but a Hardware Node configuration is stored in the HSPcomplete database. Such a Hardware Node cannot be managed from your Control Center.
- Availability - Current Hardware Node status. Unavailable node usually means some kind of hardware problems.
- Owner - An Account which owns a Hardware Node, if any.

In This Section Grouping Hardware Nodes by Racks Registering Hardware Nodes Hardware Nodes Specific Settings Enabling Traffic Shaping for Virtuozzo Hardware Nodes Enabling Creation of Name-Based VEs on a Virtuozzo Hardware Node