.. _About This Guide:

About This Guide
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This guide complements the documentation on managing Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform via the web-based management panel.

It is recommended to manage Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform via the management panel. If you have it installed, consider the command-line tools secondary and use them with caution.

If you have the management panel installed, do not do the following via the command-line tools:

- set custom paths for Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform services, in particular:

  - create S3 clusters only in ``/mnt/vstorage/vols/s3``,
  - create iSCSI targets only in ``/mnt/vstorage/vols/iscsi``,

- mount clusters or change cluster mount options,
- configure firewall with ``firewall-cmd``,
- rename network connections,
- manage MDS/CS,
- manage partitions, LVMs, or software RAID,
- modify files in ``/mnt/vstorage/vols`` and ``/mnt/vstorage/webcp/backup`` directories,
- set encoding or replication of cluster root.
