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Learning Proxmox VE

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Learning Proxmox VE

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE 4.1 provides an open source, enterprise virtualization platform on which to host virtual servers as either virtual machines or containers. This book will support your practice of the requisite skills to successfully create, tailor, and deploy virtual machines and containers with Proxmox VE 4.1. Following a survey of PVE's features and characteristics,this book will contrast containers with virtual machines and establish cases for both. It walks through the installation of Proxmox VE, explores the creation of containers and virtual machines, and suggests best practices for virtual disk creation, network configuration, and Proxmox VE host and guest security.Throughout the book, you will navigate the Proxmox VE 4.1 web interface and explore options for command-line management
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 5. Working with Virtual Disks

Chapter 4Creating a Virtual Machine, introduced the creation of virtual machines using the Proxmox VE management interface as well as the command line. After an outline of common steps in the procedure, we quickly glossed over creating two virtual machines with two network operating systems: Windows Server 2012r2 and Fedora 23 Server.

Our most fundamental goal with this chapter is to empower ourselves to make more informed and fully-deliberated decisions affecting the efficiency and reliability of a Proxmox VE virtual machine guest based on its specific use case.

We will accomplish this goal by achieving the following concrete objectives:

  • Choose deliberately from among virtual disk image formats available for use through the Proxmox VE interface
  • Choose an appropriate bus/interface by which a virtual disk will connect to a guest
  • Choose an appropriate cache setting for our use cases

In this chapter, then, we elaborate on one critical, and potentially the...