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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

Proxmox built-in monitoring


Proxmox has limited monitoring capabilities built into the GUI; however, it does lack the extensive and robust monitoring usually found in a complete monitoring solution. Proxmox comes with built-in RRD-based graphs to show the historical resource usage and performance data up to 1 year. Using this tool, we can analyze the performance trend of a resource over a period of time. All consumption and performance data are under the Summary tab menu for both Proxmox nodes and virtual machines. We can view data on a per hour, day, week, and yearly basis.

The following screenshot shows the Summary page of the Node pm4-1 with the drop-down list to select a period of data:

There are also ways to display a list of all the nodes and virtual machines in the cluster and sort them by consumption to get quick information on the highest or lowest resource consuming entity. We can see the list by navigating to Datacenter | Search. The following screenshot shows the list of Proxmox...