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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

By : Wasim Ahmed
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

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

Real-world Proxmox scenarios


Equipped with all the knowledge we have gathered from the previous chapters in this book, we are now ready to put all the pieces together to form a complex virtual environment for just about any scenario that we are going to be called for. A set of scenarios to build networks using Proxmox for various industries is given in the next section. At the end of the chapter, you will find network diagrams of each scenario given in the first part of the chapter.

Some scenarios have been taken from real-life production environments, while some are theoretical, to show how complex networks are possible with Proxmox. You can take these network models and use them as they are or modify them to make them even better.

We hope that through these network scenarios and models, you will start seeing Proxmox from a whole new point of view and be fully prepared to face any level of virtual infrastructure you are challenged with.

Note

While analyzing these scenarios, keep in mind that...