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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

About the Reviewer

Rocco Alfonzetti works for PaperClip, Inc. as an e-mail encryption expert, bringing to market PaperClip eM4, a state-of-the-art e-mail encryption solution for individuals and businesses alike. PaperClip's newest innovation is Mojo, which is a ground breaking and innovative Forms recognition technology that is cloud-born and crowdsourced. PaperClip, Inc. has innovated and excelled in the Document Management world for over 20 years.

Rocco's career includes working as a small business computer consultant in the New York City business area for at least 15 years, where his advanced networking, Windows, Linux, and Open Source skills were polished. Rocco also blogs and consults for OpenCIO, an innovative cloud consulting firm, which has focuses on helping small businesses deploy, engineer, and license Proxmox installations, as well as place their workloads in AWS, Azure, and other Cloud solutions.

Rocco runs his own large Proxmox clusters both in development and production, where he runs many complex workloads and Linux systems. He welcomes any notes or communication from readers and maintains a personal e-mail address of [email protected].

Rocco lives in rural Connecticut with his wife and their three young children. When he is not working, Rocco enjoys gardening, raising animals, beekeeping, and cooking. Rocco is also a proud Freemason, volunteering his time to the local community.