Course Overview
Basic knowledge of virtualization is an advantage for this workshop. Participants should have basic knowledge of Linux systems and fundamental networking skills. No specific prior experience with Proxmox is required. The workshop is designed to introduce both beginners and advanced users to the diverse possibilities of Proxmox virtualization and to deepen their knowledge.
Course Content
- Overview of Proxmox VE
- Setting up a single node: Concepts / Architecture / Technology
- Hardware requirements for a SingleNode setup
- Installation and management of software updates
- Introduction to web-based administration (GUI)
- network model
- Storage model - local and shared storage
- NEW: VM snapshots on thick-provisioned LVM storage (iSCSI/FC SAN) as volume chains
- NEW: RAIDZ Expansion - Adding devices to existing ZFS RAIDZ pools
- Fundamentals of authentication and user management
- KVM: Creating and managing virtual machines (Windows & Linux)
- LXC: Creating and managing containers (Linux only)
- NEW: Create containers from OCI images (Open Container Initiative)
- NEW: Nested virtualization for specialized VMs
- Manage the startup and shutdown behavior of VMs and containers
- Backup and recovery, scheduling.
- Proxmox VE Firewall
- guest provision
- Proxmox VE Cluster Setup: Concepts / Architecture / Technology
- Hardware requirements for a cluster installation
- Proxmox VE Cluster: Features / Setup / Configuration / Management
- Management of guest operating system uptime
- High availability (HA) – the Proxmox VE HA Manager and Corosync
- NEW: HA rules and resource affinity
- NEW: Datacenter Bulk Actions - Tag-based mass management
- Concepts for improving security
- Hyperconverged infrastructure with Ceph
- NEW: SDN Fabrics—OpenFabric and OSPF for complex network architectures
- Proxmox VE storage replication framework
- Troubleshooting (for single-node setups and cluster installations)
- Establishing a baseline for node performance (networks & clusters)
- Migrating VMware workloads to Proxmox (introduction)
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