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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 virtual disks


This section focuses first on the terms we should be familiar with to build on our understanding of virtual disks.

After we've agreed on terms, we'll explore virtual disk configuration options that we saw in Chapter 4Creating a Virtual Machine, but did not explore: virtual disk image formats,bus/interface options, and disk cache options.

Coming to terms

Secondary storage is as integral to virtual machines as it is to physical computers. While hard disk drives (HDDs) are hardly the most expensive hardware in PCs, we could compellingly argue that they are the most valuable, so far as we rely on them to store and provide access to our data, often the unique fruit of our hard labor.

Throughout this chapter, the term Virtual Disk will refer to a file or set of files that, to a virtual machine, represent a hard disk drive and behave just as a physical hard disk drive or solid-state drive (SSD) does for a physical computer.

The similarities between a physical hard disk...