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Proxmox

This document provides instructions for installing Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), an open-source server virtualization management platform. It recommends hardware requirements including an Intel or AMD 64-bit CPU with virtualization support. It describes downloading the ISO image, creating a new VM, and booting the ISO to start the installation process. The installer will create logical volumes for the root, data, and swap partitions. Network and storage configuration are also covered.

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Proxmox

This document provides instructions for installing Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), an open-source server virtualization management platform. It recommends hardware requirements including an Intel or AMD 64-bit CPU with virtualization support. It describes downloading the ISO image, creating a new VM, and booting the ISO to start the installation process. The installer will create logical volumes for the root, data, and swap partitions. Network and storage configuration are also covered.

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Lecture 1

Introduction and Installation

Instructor: Hadi Alnabriss


Open Source

Integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers

Central Web Management and CLI

Variety Storage support

Supports Clustering and High availability


Recommended CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)
Hardware

Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard (for KVM Full Virtualization


support)

8 GB RAM is good, more is better (grab as much as possible)

Hardware RAID with batteries protected write cache (BBU) or flash


protection

Fast hard drives, best results with 15k rpm SAS, Raid10

Two or more Gbit NIC (for bonding), additional NIC´s depending on


the preferred storage technology and cluster setup
 Download the Latest ISO image from:
◦ https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads/category/proxmox-virtual-environment

 We are going to use VMware in our Lab


Environment
 You have to use an 64 bit OS/CPU
 Enable Virtualization from BIOS/EUFI
 Prepare a new Virtual Machine
◦ Use 20GB Disk
◦ 1 GB RAM
◦ One NIC ( Use NAT )
◦ Mount The downloaded ISO to the new VM
 Choose Install Proxmox VE to Start
Installation
 select the installation disk, or click options to
make advanced configurations
 The installer creates a Volume Group (VG) called pve, and
additional Logical Volumes (LVs) called root, data and swap.
 The size of these volumes can be controlled with:
◦ hdsize Defines the total HD size to be used.
 This way you can save free space on the HD for further partitioning (i.e. for an additional PV and VG on
the same hard disk that can be used for LVM storage).
◦ swapsize Defines the size of the swap volume.
 Equals the memory size if (Minimum 4 GB and maximum 8 GB. )
 The resulting value cannot be greater than hdsize/8.
◦ maxroot: Defines the maximum size of the root volume, which stores the operating
system.
 The maximum limit of the root volume size is hdsize/4.
◦ minfree Defines the amount of free space left in volume group pve.
 With more than 128GB storage available the default is 16GB, else hdsize/8 will be used.
◦ maxvz: Defines the maximum size of the data volume. The actual size of the data
volume is:
 datasize = hdsize - rootsize - swapsize - minfree
 Where datasize cannot be bigger than maxvz.
 In our Lab environment Choose an IP address
from your VMware NAT Subnet
 After Installation you should be able to access
your PVE server from the address:
 https://your-ip-address:8006/
 The Proxmox VE is based on debian
◦ Check the version of debian
 cat /etc/debian_version
◦ Check Proxmox VE version
 pveversion
 You can also install Proxmox VE on a fresh installation of
debian (After configuring the repositories)
◦ apt-get update
◦ apt-get install proxmox-ve

 Installation details:
◦ https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Stretch
 Now you must be able to install ProxmoxVE
on Vmware or on Physical Server

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