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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

Chapter 16. Rescuing Proxmox

Whether we want to accept it or not, a network environment is always at risk of something going wrong. Even if we take out the hardware and software from the equation, there is always the human factor. Sometimes all it takes is a small mistake that can snowball very rapidly to something major. A well thought out disaster plan can go a long way to combating a situation, or sometimes on the ball quick thinking can save the day.

As we approach the end of the book, in this concluding chapter we are going to see some situations where things went wrong and what do to do when the same happens to you in the virtual environment you are part of. Like Chapter 15, Proxmox Troubleshooting, these are not all-inclusive scenarios. You may, or will, come across other situations that are not covered in this chapter. As a good administrator, you can expand on this through your own documentation, but we hope we were able to put together some critical situations that you may face...