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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

By : Ahmed
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Book Image

Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

4 (1)
By: Ahmed

Overview of this book

Proxmox is an open source server virtualization solution that has enterprise-class features for managing virtual machines, for storage, and to virtualize both Linux and Windows application workloads. You'll begin with a refresher on the advanced installation features and the Proxmox GUI to familiarize yourself with the Proxmox VE hypervisor. Then, you'll move on to explore Proxmox under the hood, focusing on storage systems, such as Ceph, used with Proxmox. Moving on, you'll learn to manage KVM virtual machines, deploy Linux containers fast, and see how networking is handled in Proxmox. You'll also learn how to protect a cluster or a VM with a firewall and explore the new high availability features introduced in Proxmox VE 5.0. Next, you'll dive deeper into the backup/restore strategy and see how to properly update and upgrade a Proxmox node. Later, you'll learn how to monitor a Proxmox cluster and all of its components using Zabbix. Finally, you'll discover how to recover Promox from disaster strikes through some real-world examples. By the end of the book, you'll be an expert at making Proxmox work in production environments with minimal downtime.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Installing Zabbix


In this section, we will see how to install Zabbix and configure it to monitor the Proxmox cluster and network devices. We are going to install the Zabbix version 3.0 on CentOS 7. Zabbix can be installed very easily on other major distributions, such as Debian or Ubuntu.

Note

For stability and performance when monitoring a large production environment, using CentOS as the base operating system is highly recommended. Always make sure that you set up a separate node or a virtual machine to offer maximum performance. A fully configured Zabbix with thousands of items will run frequent checks, which is resource heavy. Using Zabbix in a node or VM, which serves other roles, will greatly affect the performance.

Zabbix also provides preinstalled and preconfigured downloadable appliances for evaluation purposes. It is useful for learning and testing purposes but is not recommended for production use. Zabbix appliances can be downloaded from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php.

Zabbix...