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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)

Distinguishing features of virtual machines


Though containers have clearly gained impressive momentum in so brief a period, virtual machines continue to have salient and distinguishing features. For example:

  • A VM may run any operating system designed for the host's architecture; for example, Android-x86, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Windows Server, and even desktop OSs can all run on separate virtual machines on a Proxmox VE host, provided the host has adequate hardware resources.

Ubuntu 15.04 virtual machine hosted on Proxmox VE and accessed via the SPICE console option in the PVE's Web interface

  • One VM may host many containers; when we look for creative and savvy data center solutions, we would like to stay consistently aware that OS virtualization and system virtualization have a complementary relationship, rather than a competitive or antagonistic one. VMs still offer more thorough isolation, for example, than containers.
  • VMs and containers call for different security concerns and approaches. Impressively...