Proxmox 7.1 Guide: From blank system to Hypervisor
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- This is a fairly through guide of how I setup and use Proxmox VE, and I try to go over every common feature you can use. I take a system from no OS, go over installing proxmox, getting the system ready for VMs, and installing VMs and containers on the system.
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Thanks for your Proxmox videos! The depth of the information you provide, your style in delivering that information and the lack of unnecessary "information-bloat" is refreshing in the age of tutorial videos that focus more on promoting the person delivering than the information being delivered! Kudos and PLEASE keep these video tutorials coming!! As an ANCIENT I.T.-engineer who started out with SoftPC on SPARCStations, I've attended a load of workshops, watched a ton of video tutorials and read a few gross or more of manuals and I can honestly say that your expertise and the manner in which you communicate it is refreshing and something to which I have aspired for years! Please, please, please keep it up.
As many other folks have said already, I really appreciate the depth of information and all the areas/steps you went over in detail. Helped me a great deal. You made my day and you have a great day as well.
By far the best Proxmox guide I've seen so far. So many guys leave too many blanks just to get a video under 20 minutes. Thank you.
Just getting into Proxmox for a home lab, and picked up more information from your one video than watching many others on RUclips. Great content and explained very clear why you made certain decisions. Also answered some questions I had that other content creators skipped over. Thank you very much.
Deepest, highly detailed, right to the point, amazingly explained, best video I have ever seen about proxmox. Liked it and subscribed. You deserve much more subs definitely. Keep it up, I am so looking forward to see more of your content.
Amazing tutorial. I had followed another one last year for an old, low end PC and gave up on it because of how crappy it was and how confusing Proxmox looked.
But this video described every little step. It doesn't just tell you what to do, but WHY. Proxmox now seems fun and simple!
This is how a tut should be like! Instant subscribe.
I could tell right away that this was going to be the most useful tutorial for Proxmox. Thank you for the passion
I loved this video, the technical depth and structure was well thought through, very well spoken and delivered at the rapid speed that holds my attention. I’d suggest to comment readers that one needs to have a solid understanding of IT infrastructure technology to appreciate this comprehensive video delivered at such a quick pace, if not you will likely be lost. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge without the typical self serving RUclips bloat. I learned a lot about the product capabilities and where to set things very quickly. I also loved your realistic perspective on performance vs features; most are not needing to build a virtualized HPC system; nanosecond deltas don’t really factor for general compute, features do. Spot on. I also enjoyed the trailer, the sounds took me back decades to my days spent in the DC. Brilliant seeing next-gen so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about technologies whose roots were researched and developed during my tenure in IT. Practical knowledge with a heart warming sensation, what a great gift.
I bought my first server this past year or so. I chose Open Media Vault as my first server OS because it was simple to start with. But now I'm seeing how much more use I'll get on my server by installing OMV as a VM in Proxmox and still be able to use all that available power for other things which is totally cool. A different RUclipsr made a 20 part tutorial on Proxmox but I learned way more on this single video then in that entire 20 part playlist so great job on the video for sure. I feel like I have a good grasp on the basic concepts now and I'm gonna take the plunge. This is going to be super fun. Thanks again!
i believe i know which 20part series you're talking about and it was essentially a glorified walk-through of his setup with no explanations of the why.
I disagree. The Learn Linux TV series was a great intro, and much better for someone starting from scratch. For instance, LLT goes into much more detail on templates, and how to prep a VM to make a usable template. This video made a lot more sense after watching that. Techno Tim's first 11 things was also useful. I do agree this is an excellent video, worth a subscription, I really enjoy the presenter.
Did you end up creating a VM of OMV?
New subscriber here. This is the first video I see from you. I must say your explanation and understanding of the topic is second to none! You deserve way more subs! Mad respect.
I have leaned so much watching your videos, this one is a golden gem.
Like everyone else says, probably the most detailed guide straight to the point. Great guide, tutorial and general information to learn from. Thanks! Subscribed too.
Stood up my first ProxMox server today using this guide. Made things so straightforward, many thanks 👌
Wow, pure gold here. Learned a bunch, fine-tuned my windows VM. Just subscribed. Looking forward to more VMs/containers/Proxmox
For Hardware, i have to say i´m extremely happy with my proxmox system running on an old consumer grade laptop. Sounds weird on first sight, but has some major advantages imho.
1. They are dirt cheap, and i mean dirt cheap.
2. Power Consumption is really really low (my system runs at 14W)
3. Integrated UPS, which is a Pro-feature :-) -> also you can limit the SOC to say like 60% to preserve the battery simply by using TLP and configure it once and then forget it. So no more corrupted DBs or anything.
Of course there are also a ton of disadvantages, thats for sure. But for my usecase they really don´t matter that much.
IMHO, for a small HomeSystem with low performance demands, it´s really a good choice! And if the Laptops dies, who cares, you got snapshots and are back in business in no time.
This is how you call a proper Tutorial and Guide, i just found your channel and i just subscribed.
I learned a lot , very concise walk through . Thanks 🙏
Great video! Love the high detail on what everything is/does.
amazing tutorial, thank you. much better even than longer alternatives out there.
Awesome video.... great explanation of features and reasons that you choose
Thank you so much for such an awesome knowledge sharing session. Kudos to your spirit...! More power to you. 🙌
This video has been incredibly helpful, thank you very much!
Very good Proxmox info! Coming from ESXi + vSphere and Citrix Hypervisor + XenCenter at work, I'm eager to try Proxmox for my next homelab changes. I did some testing with XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra based on a recommendation from Tom at LTS, which seemed good for managing many hosts, but I felt it wasn't the right fit for my lab. Proxmox seems like a better option. Thanks for the info.
Exactly the information I've been looking for ! Great explanation 👍 thanks heaps 👊😎
For a newbie and an oldie like myself, this is an excellent video. Thank you!..Lady D🤘
First time i got it to work in 3 tries. Great information
So glad I stumbled on this channel. Every moment is useful content (and I can't type my takeaway notes fast enough lol!), no clickbait bs like tHE oNe ThiNg aBouT PrOXmOx THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!!
I learn a lot...Very and informative and helpful. Thanks mate
tip is add is changing windows display driver to virtio so you can scale the display better
Thank you soo much for clear explanation!
well done .. waiting for upcoming videos explaining cluster and HA
Great video in the style I prefer: Do. Or do not. There is no try.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing
Nice video, useful for an old proxmoxer like me. With regards to the templates, running this in the shell/console on the host will update them: pveam update
'thanks for watching my "little" proxmox video' lol. Thanks for the great content
Proxmox n00b here. Thanks for this mate.
Fantastic video, tyvm for your hard work.
Thank you for the Proxmox help Bill Hader!
Just a Wonderful Guide, Thank You, you have a new subscribed.
Thank you Dude, excellent instructions for a complete proxmox novice like me :-)
Great video! Thanks from Argentina!
Interesting to see people from Rivendell into computers too
Learned a lot here - thanks!!
i would recommend to switch from rufus and use ventoy unless you want your usb only for one thing
Amazing stuff, thank you.
Hi, good proxmox guide
Great content, very useful! Thank tou!
Thankyou so much for the Win install... 🙂
muchas gracias! super bueno. saludos desde Costa Rica
very nice videos. Would be interesting to show how to virtualize a macOS system
Good video for Proxmox beginners
very clear and useful! subscribed
you have a new subscriber! super nice stuff men!
Very useful video, THX.
Thanks, dude. This is great info... New sub.
Great video!
Great video ❤
I like how you communicate. Keep up the good work, very informative. I just wish there was a way to get the video downloaded without being a RUclips premier member.... :)
Hey, hello, a great video, do you have any videos of more advanced proxmox setups with multiple lans for storage and VMs as you mentioned and shared storage, etc.
Good stuff !!!
thanks for your reply
Hello Thanks for the video, i understand a lot of things better now. I am new to proxmox and have a couple of noob questions.
1.i am having issues adding an external drive to proxmox. Every time i successfully add one, It disconnects after a system reboot and doesnt re-mount automatically. I always have to remount manually every time.
2. I installed truenas vm, and plex via lxc container but cant access my usb storage even when its mounted in proxmos.
Please help.
great first overview - I love proxmox so thanks for spreading the word!
Are you planning to do an updated look at PBS? Looks good from your first look vid but would be good to get a bit more in depth info before I take the plunge on setting it up.
Yea I’m working on a updated pbs video. It should be out in the next few weeks.
@@ElectronicsWizardry cool, thanks!
@@ElectronicsWizardry Thank you for the excellent video. Do you offer consulting services? We have a small VMware infrastructure with some legacy Windows 2003 servers (the rest are Linux VMs) that I need to migrate to Proxmox. I have two of the latest 4-node Supermicro Bigtwin servers with NVMe hyperconverged storage (configured with ZFS) with Proxmox 8.0 installed. Networking is 25G with Mellanox equipment. Now I need to migrate our legacy Windows VMs over. I can’t afford to learning mistakes as this migration needs to be solid out of the gate. Please let me know. Thx
@@fellowshipofthering77 I do offter IT consuting services. Give me a email at the email on my about page to talk more. Also I made a video about migrating from old hardware(or vms) to proxmox here you can take a look at to get a feel for the process. ruclips.net/video/E60_FC967YE/видео.html
@@ElectronicsWizardryAppreciate the feedback. I don’t see a way to email you from your about page (no email address listed - just a URL link to RUclips). Let me know if I’m missing something. Thx!
Love the in depth explanations you provide. Is it possible to install MacOS in this environment choosing "other" as the system type and using a standard MacOS iso?
I believe its possible to install macOS, but I haven't tried. I don't believe apple provides a iso image, and only a DMG and APP image is available. I think some changes to the bootloader would also be required similar to the ones used for a hackintosh. I may try setting this up in the future.
I am new subscriber , i learned a lot from your videos and you can make a video about migrating VM from Proxmox to VMWare ESXi. Thanks a lot!
Just installed Proxmox 7.1 in a Samsung T3 external SSD, new to Proxmox.
Used 1 1TB internal NVME disk as ZFS for the storage, and got a Win11 running on it.
Now i want to backup just the windows disk (added 1 for Windows, 1 for games).
But can only backup to Local, the External SSD which is small.
Can i backup to the ZFS disk, or do i need to add another storage? And as what type?
For in the future:
I still got a 2TB NVMe build in, which is running my Manjaro currently, could i setup this disk for backup And usage of VMs (after i emptied it), or should i add another External HDD just for backups?
Just discovered your channel. I have a very specific set of ProxMox questions in regards to having Unraid as a VM or container. I’d be happy to submit the topic as a video idea so you can get some mileage from it if that helps haha.
Sure let me know what your questions are. I typically have used usb passthrough when creating a unraid vm as it wants to be booted from a usb stick.
Thanks!
good job
Do you know if we can migrate LXC containers live in a cluster yet? I have been sticking to VMs for this reason for years. Also seems nothing was mentioned about the qemu guest agent?
LXC containers don’t support live migration yet, only when there shutdown. Looks like I missed the guest agent. That’s for bringing that up.
I believe that you should use LxD for migration and Nomad and Consul for container orchestration. Prometheus to monitor kubernetes swarm and host independently.
The Windows 10 install showed NO sound icon on the task bar. How do you get the sound driver(s) installed?
Backed up a 2,008 Windows Echange server under esxi but could never get it running properly under Proxmox 8 although it worked properly in proxmox 7. The quick solution was to create PST files for each user, build a new 2008 exchange server and just restore psts to each uses account. Crude, but effective..
Just came upon your video, I have an old Dell 2900, I was thinking of using an SSD to have the OS separate from the 8 swappable drive, span SSD 120 GB or so be enough for a boot disk?
Depends on the os and programs you need but 120gB is typically more than enough for a boot drive. Most of my boot drives have less than 64gb used
@@ElectronicsWizardry thank you so much I’ll see how I go about it, trying to get a homelab going
Any chance you can show us the easiest way to create VM template?
Danke!
The only thing I would like to see added is installing the qemu-guest-agent
If I don't need clustering, HA or anything like that, I have two 500GB SSDs I want to use.
2nd will be for VM's and storage for ISOs where as the main would be be for proxmox, opnsense, piehole nothing to large.
What is best practice for storage for proxmox, which type like ext4, xfs. Im not sure ZFS is where I want to go. And later, if I choose say 100GB for proxmox, can split up or use the remaining space for the other thing I've listed here.
I’m a fan of ZFS and would likely put the drives in one zfs pool and use that. That would have it so there is only one pool to manage. But without zfs I’d probably go ext4, but xfs will be basically the same for the uses here. LVM will also work. For most uses the file system will have no effect on usage.
If you go with ext4, xfs, or zfs then there isn’t a fixed amount of storage for the host and VMs are thin provisioned so they only take the space they need on disk. Lvm is better if you want full allocation as it will have a designated space for the os that can’t be shared with the vms. I like to go with thin provisioning as it’s more flexible about vm layout and saves disk spaces but fixed provisioning guarantees the disk won’t run out of space and will have slightly better performance.
Can Xpenology (Sonology DSM) be installed as a VM on Proxmox? If so, would you be able to show the process including how to pass through the physical hard drives to the DSM?
My workplace have two cpu, i7 (8 cores and 16 threads) and xeon 4 cores 8 threads (I forgot the type), and I have pc workstation lenovo st250 (which have Intel xeon), but what I see i7 have more cores than xeon, so should I keep using Intel xeon or swap it with i7?
I’d probably go with the i7 as it seems to be much faster here. But from my experience ram is a limiting factor normally before cpu power so make sure you have enough ram too.
I installed Proxmox on a 128GB SSD, and the Disks section shows /dev/sda1 BIOS boot 1.03 MB, /dev/sda2 EFI 536.87 MB, and /dev/sda3 LVM 127.50 GB... but when I click on local in the top left server view, it shows max size is 31 GB, and local-lvm shows max size is 69.24 GB. That doesn't add up to 128 GB. Where's the missing space?
Furthermore, Disks/LVM shows only 88% of space is assigned to LVs and 15.84 GB is free. How do I claim the free space?
Can you show how to config turnkey fileserver container. Thank you for sharing
Yea I’ll make a video going over how to setup a turnkey server. Give a week or two to make the video.
Can you make a tutorial on how to install MacOS on Linux using ProxMox , there’s someone online that talks about it, but he talks a lot but never fully answers questions. Thanks.
Greate video ! just sub to ur channel keep up the good work man :D
could you please tell me how to get zotac gtx 680 4gb non-uefi bios to pass through gpu and install Monterey on that vm ?
i have sabertooth x79, 3930k cpu sandy bridge and gtx 680.
im new to proxmox and vm in general and not sure what to use just to get monterey and other os x versions to work without having to worry about compatibility issue all the time while trying to install them like in hackintosh with opencore and all that hassle when one make one mistake and the installer doesnt even start and have to troubleshoot everything all day and every time something break time to find the problem :(((
Hi,
@ElectronicsWizardry I need solution for backup Porxmox host, what is your opinion, of course without other node(cluster)?
is there some other solution?
I’d probably use pbs to backup Proxmox. It works well and allows for fast incremental backups. I’d install pbs on the host in a single node but you can also run pbs in a vm. Unfortunately there aren’t any other good backup options for Proxmox like veeam, and normal Linux backup software like borg isn’t recommended for Proxmox as it won’t lock the vm images.
@@ElectronicsWizardry Thank you for your fast response.
So it can backup just only main host (plan to bkp on USB drive) and do fast restore without reconfiguration in case of disaster?
(also want to be sure when I play with Porxmox that I can restore fast and not do all over again)
I tested Veeam Linux Agent but didn't go well...(even found some bugs) I tried to make a clone of a disk with CloneZila but unfortunately not able to restore it.
Pbs only backups the vms and containers, not any of the host configuration or a image. Let me look into a way to do image backup of the Proxmox host. I’d also suggest keeping the data drives and boot drives separate if possible. Then pbs can backup the data drive and another program can make a image of the boot drive
what network settings should i put - my router address is 192.168.0.1 and its set to DHCP assigned IP
what about docker container or proxmox container ? quite confused
i have 2 network cards - 1 wifi and i one ethernet card - which one should i use while installation
I'd generally recommend using wired network for proxmox so I'd select wired here. I might disable the wifi in the bios so it can't be selected or usedby mistake.
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New Sub! Dryden, MI
Nice Job! Thank you for the Help!!
Untreated ADHD @ 40...Videos help lol
installed proxmox but cannot access web interface can you please help
Can your proxmox server ping other devices? Can you ping the proxmox server? Check if the network link is up with ip addr.
So Xeon processors are a good choice for proxmox
There are many types of Xeon processors, but in general they have features enabled that can help in server workloads and often the motherboards made for xeons are designed for server use.
@@ElectronicsWizardry wow super fast reply never got reply from any other RUclipsrs.
No login screen.. Only white page is loaded..
Is this in the webui? Id try doing a update and see if that helps, otherwise do a reinstall.
what happened at 1:03:31?
Oops missed that in editing. Will try to remove it.
@@ElectronicsWizardry it was a very informative video. I've been using proxmox for a while now but was still able to learn a few new things.
@@ElectronicsWizardry but do let us know why the slow 3 claps, seems like you noticed something went wrong there :D Also, are those fans running at the end or some static? Because I couldn't hear anything during the video, that must be some good noise canceling you're using. Great video!
I kept the part before that I normally cut out. The claps are for syncing the audio from the camera and the screen recording.
You should make tf2 videos again
Bro pls hit that bench and lift them weights so you can compliment that handsome mountain breaking chin.
Tip. Shorten your Name ex. E-wiz
19:21 - everything was fine until this point. You revealed to everybody that you're just a shill, because the proper response to this prompt is "I'll show you how to get rid of this nag screen later."
But you didn't say that.
"btrfs is kinda beta now"????? That statement doesn't imbue me with confidence in your knowledge. Saying "I prefer...." is fine. But, making statements that are obviously untrue and not declaring your bias is unreasonable. Everyone has a bias. I have and I am sure most people have. But, if one wishes to consult professionally and I have done so since late 70's - then (A) one's preferneces/bias changes and (B) one should always declare them and reasons for them. Otherwise you will denegrate your reputation.
Am i supposed to be able to READ something on your screen?? Because even with the largest display around, i would not be able to. THANKS to your bad stage setup. PLEASE!!! Stop doing tutorials if you flunked 'screen presentations 101'. no really!!
I think you need to watch the video from start to end before you make some comment that holds water like a bucket with a hole in it.
Or get yourself some spectacles 🤓
This video has been incredibly helpful, thank you very much!