We are using containers (namely OpenVZ) more then 6 years now in production. And we are very happy with the solution. Till now when mentioning “virtualization” or VPS everybody thought about VMWare, KVM (used also by Amazon), OpenStack and similar
CheetSheet: LVM
Working with LVM Preate Physical Volume # pvcreate /dev/sda2 Create Volume Group # vgcreate vg0 /dev/sda2 # vgscan Create Logical Volume # lvcreate -n lv0 –size 32g vg0 Make File System # mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg0/lv0 Create Logical Volume # mkdir /vz