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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 6. Networking with Proxmox VE

In Chapter 5Managing Virtual Disks, we looked at one of the most flexible, and therefore complex components of virtualization: secondary storage. That flexibility and concomitant complexity is because we were attentive to performance and tuning I/O throughput to do the best we can in the face of the overhead implicit in this kind of virtualization.

This chapter gives the same attention to another opportunity to optimize I/O throughput: the vNIC configuration of the virtual machine.

Since vNIC optimization involves coordinating fewer moving parts, we're going to use this opportunity to address networking with Proxmox VE in a broader context—beyond just the optimization of the virtual machine, and to the design of networks that include Proxmox VE guests and hosts.

Throughout, we'll (strive to) maintain coherent focus on the Proxmox VE's networking model and the possibilities that model opens up for us. We'll cover the topic with enough detail to conjure...