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Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition

By : Wasim Ahmed
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Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition

By: Wasim Ahmed

Overview of this book

Proxmox is an open source server virtualization solution that has enterprise-class features to manage virtual machines, to be used for storage, and to virtualize both Linux and Windows application workloads. You begin with refresher on the advanced installation features and the Proxmox GUI to familiarize yourself with the Proxmox VE hypervisor. You then move on to explore Proxmox under the hood, focusing on the storage systems used with Proxmox. Moving on, you will learn to manage KVM Virtual Machines and Linux Containers and see how networking is handled in Proxmox. You will then learn how to protect a cluster or a VM with a firewall and explore the new HA features introduced in Proxmox VE 4 along with the brand new HA simulator. Next, you will dive deeper into the backup/restore strategy followed by learning how to properly update and upgrade a Proxmox node. Later, you will learn how to monitor a Proxmox cluster and all of its components using Zabbix. By the end of the book, you will become an expert at making Proxmox environments work in production environments with minimum downtime.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pool menu


This menu tab is visible when a Pool is selected from the left navigation pane.

Pool | Summary

The Summary menu for the pool only shows the Comment description for the Pool, as shown in the following screenshot:

Pool | Members

This menu shows all the resources currently allocated to the selected Pool. For example, in our example pool named Lab_1, we have a KVM VM #100, LXC container #100, and local storage allocated, as shown in the following screenshot:

New resources can be added through the Add drop-down menu. We can only add virtual machines and storage to a pool. To add a KVM or LXC virtual machine, we will need to know the ID as there is no drop-down list from which you can select a virtual machine. The following screenshot shows the virtual machine's Add dialog box:

To add Storage to a pool, there is a drop-down list with the available storage options attached to a Proxmox cluster, as shown in the following screenshot:

Pool | Permissions

The Permissions menu under Pool is the same...