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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

Noncommercial and commercial storage options


We have discussed which virtual machine image formats and storage types are supported by Proxmox. To better acquaint ourselves for test or practice labs, we are now going to take a look at what noncommercial and commercial options we have out there in order to set up a storage system for the Proxmox-clustered environment. By noncommercial, I mean they are free without any primary features missing and without any trial limits.

These noncommercial options will allow you to set up a fully functional shared storage system with some hard work. Commercial versions usually come with full support from the provider company, and in some cases, the ongoing Service Level Agreement (SLA) contract. The following list is by no means a complete one, but a guideline to guide you in the direction where you need to plan and implement a Proxmox cluster environment. Each of these products can provide everything you need to set up shared storage:

Noncommercial

Commercial...