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Learning Proxmox VE

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Learning Proxmox VE

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE 4.1 provides an open source, enterprise virtualization platform on which to host virtual servers as either virtual machines or containers. This book will support your practice of the requisite skills to successfully create, tailor, and deploy virtual machines and containers with Proxmox VE 4.1. Following a survey of PVE's features and characteristics,this book will contrast containers with virtual machines and establish cases for both. It walks through the installation of Proxmox VE, explores the creation of containers and virtual machines, and suggests best practices for virtual disk creation, network configuration, and Proxmox VE host and guest security.Throughout the book, you will navigate the Proxmox VE 4.1 web interface and explore options for command-line management
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Preparing for the Proxmox VE Installer


With virtualization extensions enabled and the installation media in hand, it is wise to prepare information the Proxmox Installer will want from you. Having the following information prepared before the Proxmox Installer gets started will help ensure that your configuration is completed with all the consideration and deliberation it deserves.

Have well-considered responses prepared for when you're prompted for the following information by the installer:

  • The target installation drive (any existing data on the drive will be permanently deleted)
  • The password for the root user
  • The administrator's e-mail address
  • The country
  • The time zone (expressed in this format: Region/City (Pacific/Honolulu, for example)
  • The keyboard layout (based on region)
  • Whether to use an EXT3 or an EXT4 filesystem (or if you've configured a machine with a RAID10 array, choose zfs)
  • A fully qualified domain name for the new server
  • The fixed IP address to be assigned to the Proxmox VE system...