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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)

Summary


To the shrewd administrator, the capability to utilize containers in conjunction with virtual machines in production environments offers flexibility and increased opportunities for professional discretion and informed choices. System virtualization continues to have a currency in the datacenter.

Consequently, we began this chapter with a high-level overview of the VM creation and configuration process with Proxmox VE—from obtaining the install media, to configuring the VM, and installing the operating system.

Afterwards, we took that abstract outline and applied it to two concrete cases: the creation of a Microsoft Windows Server 2012r2 and Fedora 23 Server virtual machines.

In Chapter 5Working with Virtual Drives, you will learn all you need to know to make informed choices when determining what format best suits our virtual hard drives.

We'll give particular attention to making use of VMs created with Oracle's VirtualBox, VMware Player, and VMware workstation in our new Proxmox virtual...