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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

Creating an LXC container


After ensuring that we have the desired template for the container, it is now time to create one. We can click on the Create CT button in the top-right corner of the Proxmox GUI to open the container creation dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot:

General tab

The general tab of the dialog box is used to assign identification information, as outlined below.

Node

This is a drop-down list used to select in which Proxmox node the container is going to be created. In our example, we will create the container in node pm4-1.

VM ID

This is a textbox used to enter the numeric ID of the container. We can also use the up and down arrows in the box to assign the IDs. If we assign an ID, which already exists in the cluster, the box will show a red border around the textbox. For our example container, we are using ID #101.

Hostname

This is a text box used to enter the hostname of the container. The hostname does not need to be FQDN.

Resource Pool

This is a drop-down list menu...