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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

Creating a KVM


In Proxmox, we can create a KVM VM in the following two ways:

  • From scratch

  • From a template

Creating a VM from scratch

This process walks you through the entire virtual machine creation process using a tab-based dialog box. During the process, we have to assign resources and enter the necessary information pertaining to the VM. The following screenshot shows the dialog box after you click on Create VM in the Proxmox GUI:

General tab

The General tab of the dialog box is used to mainly assign identification information, such as:

  • Node: This is a drop-down list to select in which Proxmox node the VM should be created.

  • VM ID: This is the textbox used to enter the numeric ID of the VM. We can also increase or decrease the value of the VM ID using the arrows. If we assign an ID that already exists in the cluster, the box will have a red border around it, as shown in the following screenshot:

  • Name : This is the text box used to enter the name of the VM. We can enter any alphanumeric string...