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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

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Learning Proxmox VE
Mar, 2016 | 224 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Proxmox VE
Learning Proxmox VE
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Proxmox VE Fundamentals
Proxmox VE Fundamentals
Proxmox VE in brief
Virtualization with Proxmox VE
Summary
2
Installing Proxmox VE
Installing Proxmox VE
Hardware requirements and recommendations for Proxmox VE
Downloading Proxmox VE
Verifying the downloaded image
Ensuring hardware virtualization extensions are installed
Preparing for the Proxmox VE Installer
Installing Proxmox VE
Upgrading PVE from the command line
Summary
3
Creating Containers
Creating Containers
Understanding the container advantage
Container templates
Downloading templates
From template to container
Starting and stopping containers
Summary
4
Creating Virtual Machines
Creating Virtual Machines
Distinguishing features of virtual machines
Creating a virtual machine
Practicing the creation of virtual machines
Summary
5
Working with Virtual Disks
Working with Virtual Disks
Understanding virtual disks
Learning more
Summary
6
Networking with Proxmox VE
Networking with Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE network model
Network configuration for virtual servers
Summary
7
Securing Proxmox VE
Securing Proxmox VE
Security benefits of virtualization
Aggravated vulnerabilities
Taking action
Summary

Summary

To the shrewd administrator, the capability to utilize containers in conjunction with virtual machines in production environments offers flexibility and increased opportunities for professional discretion and informed choices. System virtualization continues to have a currency in the datacenter.

Consequently, we began this chapter with a high-level overview of the VM creation and configuration process with Proxmox VE—from obtaining the install media, to configuring the VM, and installing the operating system.

Afterwards, we took that abstract outline and applied it to two concrete cases: the creation of a Microsoft Windows Server 2012r2 and Fedora 23 Server virtual machines.

In Chapter 5, Working with Virtual Drives, you will learn all you need to know to make informed choices when determining what format best suits our virtual hard drives.

We'll give particular attention to making use of VMs created with Oracle's VirtualBox, VMware Player, and VMware workstation in our new Proxmox virtual...

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