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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

By : Wasim Ahmed
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Book Image

Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

4 (1)
By: Wasim 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 (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

About the Reviewers

Nicolas Ledez has been working as a system administrator since 2000. He has been in big businesses such as Orange (a French telecom company) and in small organizations too. His skills are in DevOps, Linux, Ruby, Python, Ansible, Chef, Saltstack, and others. Currently, he is a DevOps architect at Cozy Cloud. You can find him on the internet with the pseudonym nledez.

 

 

 

 

Jorge Moratilla Porras has a bachelor's degree in computer science and has been working for internet companies since 1998. He has been working as a contractor for companies such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle. His passions are teaching and improving workloads using automation techniques. He has been working as a Sun Microsystems certified instructor and field engineer for several years. He has a large background working with products such as Sun Solaris, Linux, LDAP services, and CheckPoint. Recently, he has been working with configuration management products such as Puppet and Chef on his assignments and has been taking part in Madrid DevOps (a group of technicians devoted to continuous deployment and DevOps culture) as coordinator. He promotes the adoption of a culture of continuous improvement in enterprise and startups as the baseline to do great things. You can meet him at talks and hangouts that he organizes in the community.

He has collaborated as a reviewer on other Packt titles as well:

  • Configuration Management with Chef-Solo by Naveed ur Rahman 
  • Proxmox Cookbook by Wasim Ahmed

I would like to thank my wife, Nuria, and sons, Eduardo and Ruben, for being so understanding and supportive while I was reviewing this book. Also, I would like to thank my dear mom, Milagros, and dad, Toñi, who put in all their effort to give me an education. Finally, I would also like to thank all those who have contributed to my personal and professional development through the years.