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Proxmox Cookbook

By : Wasim Ahmed, Ravi K Jangid
Book Image

Proxmox Cookbook

By: Wasim Ahmed, Ravi K Jangid

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE's intuitive interface, high availability, and unique central management system puts it on par with the world’s best virtualization platforms. Its simplicity and high quality of service is what makes it the foremost choice for most system administrators. Starting with a step-by-step installation of Proxmox nodes along with an illustrated tour of Proxmox graphical user interface where you will spend most of your time managing a cluster, this book will get you up and running with the mechanisms of Proxmox VE. Various entities such as Cluster, Storage, and Firewall are also covered in an easy to understand format. You will then explore various backup solutions and restore mechanisms, thus learning to keep your applications and servers safe. Next, you will see how to upgrade a Proxmox node with a new release and apply update patches through GUI or CLI. Monitoring resources and virtual machines is required on an enterprise level, to maintain performance and uptime; to achieve this, we learn how to monitor host machine resources and troubleshoot common issues in the setup. Finally, we will walk through some advanced configurations for VM followed by a list of commands used for Proxmox and Ceph cluster through CLI. With this focused and detailed guide you will learn to work your way around with Proxmox VE quickly and add to your skillset.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Proxmox Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing OpenVZ containers


In this recipe, we are going to see how to manage an OpenVZ container to perform tasks, such as resource and network management through the Proxmox GUI.

How to do it…

The following steps show how to change container resources, such as CPU, memory, and disk space:

  1. Log in to the GUI as the root or another administrative privileged user.

  2. Select a container from the left navigation pane. Then, click on the Resource tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Click on any line item to change Processors, Memory, Swap, and Disk size and then click on Edit.

  4. Each item will open a dialog box to change values. After the desired values have been entered, click on OK to finalize the changes.

The following steps show how to change the network interface for container:

  1. Click on the Network tab while the container is selected from the left navigation pane. The display will list all the virtual network interfaces configured for the container, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Select the...