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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)

Understanding the container advantage


Chapter 1Proxmox VE Fundamentals, introduced GNU/Linux containers generally and worked particularly at distinguishing them from virtual machines. This section elaborates some advantages of containers, and it imagines a scenario ideal for container deployment.

Where an administrator could run 10-100 virtual machines on a physical host, she/he could run 100-1000 containers on the same host without compromising significantly on performance (http://computerpcdeal.com/servers-dell-poweredge/news_2014-06-17-05-30-07-224.html).

Containers may be thought of, initially, as very lightweight virtual machines, but with much lower overhead and the added value of simplified deployment.

Proxmox VE and the case for LXC

Containers are the legacy of FreeBSD jails and have enjoyed a kind of renaissance that has become an increasingly valuable cultural touchstone among computing professionals, particularly since the rise of Docker in June of 2014.

It's important to keep in...