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Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition

By : Wasim Ahmed
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Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition

By: Wasim Ahmed

Overview of this book

Proxmox is an open source server virtualization solution that has enterprise-class features to manage virtual machines, to be used for storage, and to virtualize both Linux and Windows application workloads. You begin with refresher on the advanced installation features and the Proxmox GUI to familiarize yourself with the Proxmox VE hypervisor. You then move on to explore Proxmox under the hood, focusing on the storage systems used with Proxmox. Moving on, you will learn to manage KVM Virtual Machines and Linux Containers and see how networking is handled in Proxmox. You will then learn how to protect a cluster or a VM with a firewall and explore the new HA features introduced in Proxmox VE 4 along with the brand new HA simulator. Next, you will dive deeper into the backup/restore strategy followed by learning how to properly update and upgrade a Proxmox node. Later, you will learn how to monitor a Proxmox cluster and all of its components using Zabbix. By the end of the book, you will become an expert at making Proxmox environments work in production environments with minimum downtime.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

An introduction to monitoring


In a network of any size, it is only a matter of time before an issue arises owing to intentional or unintentional circumstances. The root cause for an issue can be owing to hardware failures, software issues, human errors, or just about any other environmental factor, which causes loss of network or data. Network monitoring is a practice in which an administrator can check a pulse of the network components in a network environment.

There is no system to monitor everything. A good monitoring system is usually put together with various tools and some types of notification options to send alerts automatically. The Proxmox cluster is a sum of switches, network cables, physical nodes acting as hosts, and virtual machines. A monitoring system should be able to monitor all of these components and automatically send notifications via a medium, such as an e-mail or SMS to responsible parties. There are wide ranges of network monitoring tools available today, such as...