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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

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 complex virtual environment for just about any scenario that we are going to be called for. Some set of scenarios are given in the next section to build networks using Proxmox for various industries. At the end of the chapter, you will find network diagrams of each scenario given in 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.

Tip

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