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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


We conclude having explored the Proxmox VE network model and worked through some configurations for virtual machines.

Along the way, our attention turned once more to virtio paravirtualization drivers—not for storage, as in the prior chapter, but rather for network IO. To briefly reiterate, virtio paravirtualization drivers for KVM-QEMU virtual machines help optimize efficiency by taking some of the sting out of the resource overhead associated with virtualization. Proxmox VE doesn't default to virtio, however; it defaults instead to the option with the greatest compatibility. In the case of vNICs, that default is Intel's E1000 NIC.

In the next chapter, we'll take a somewhat abstracted look at security threats and countermeasures specific to virtual machines, containers, and their hosts. We'll take our first look at the firewall features built in to the Proxmox VE administrative interfaces, and we'll work to realize some of the countermeasures proposed.

That being said, let's harden...