Great Tutorial! So many beginners need this more basic breakdown of installation and usage processes. Very clear explanation of a complex process. Bravo!
Thank you for the video. When creating the virtual machine in the hard disk tab at 10:58, you left ISOs for the storage option, shouldn't that be changed to VM1 since the LVM was created for the vm's? If not please explain as I am not very familiar with Linux or LVM's
Hello, excuse us for our late reply. You are absolutely correct and we did not notice this when creating the video. We should have selected VM1 instead of ISOs. I will add a note to the description.
My friend, excelent video, you HAVE to make more explaining other aspects of Proxmox. This was very helpful for me and for many other people. Thank you very much. My best regards, from Argentina.
Wat is de reden dat je proxmox en de iso's niet op 1 drive zet? En waarom wil je de iso's eigenlijk op je server aangezien je die kan downloaden en eventueel via usb kan overzetten op de drive indien nodig. (Kwestie van drive bays uit te sparen...) Ben van plan om ook server op te zetten thuis, daarom dat ik het vraag 😉 Goeie tutorial! Groetjes vd zuiderbuur.
Couldn't you use a USB flash drive for ISO storage instead of committing an entire hard drive? It's really only there for storing the ISO file for use when installing the OS into your VM you're done with the ISO right?
If you want to spin up new instances on the fly in the future, you need to have the USB inserted indefinitely. So for something like an enterprise where you need to have new VMs for new employees or projects, having it persist in a hard drive would be better, especially if it exists in a separate room on another floor, or a different building, etc... Plus, it could be in a cheap 120 GB HDD. What I'm wondering if it can be a storage partition. I have an SSD, and 3 HDDs for ZFS storage. Seems like I could partition the HDDs for iso storage.
@@ryanmcgowan3061 Cool! That's what I was hoping. I'm only potentially using it at home so needing a persistent HD for spinning something up on the fly isn't really necessary for me.
2GB Partition for Proxmox - second partition for all your ISO’s + VM’s. Think *seriously* about getting another drive (even an external USB), for automated backups. When your main, single drive fails (and it will, someday), you’ll be totally boned. Like running out of your burning home without the family photo album boned.
@@stevearkwright Is proxmox unstable? I've never had a hard drive fail. Do you have suggested set up videos for proxmox and multiple VMs on partitions?
Thank you for this comment, and sorry if this was not clear in the video. It is not necessary to create a seperate disk just for the ISO's. You can use one disk for Proxmox and ISO's and one for VM's. By default you can upload ISO's to the Proxmox installation drive by going to Datacenter > pve (or any other node) > local > Content > Upload. Hope this helped. If you have any questions, feel free to ask more.
@@proxmoxhhs1911 Is a separate drive for vms required or is it recommended? Say my server has a single raid array, can all live together.. if not can I partition it in the base proxmox installation? Thanks!
@@proxmoxhhs1911 anyway, could you give a background why is separating those into different phisical drives is beneficial? Because intuitively, same as the whole Proxmox hypervising is intended to, I'd like to share resources and combine as much as possible. I understand that both options are available, but what are the benefits?
⚠️ You don’t need a separate drive or partition just for ISO’s. After you’ve installed your VM’s, you don’t even need to keep the ISO’s if you don’t need them for further installations - you can safely delete them. All they’re doing is getting outdated and hogging up hard drive space. Bin them!
Thank you for making this tutorial. At first two attempts, I was pulling my hair as to why I can't create directory for ISO nor create Volume groups. Then I realize I was connect Hard Drives that already had EXT4 partition in it, which Proxmox didn't like. After erasing the disks using Gparted, install of ISO directory and creation of Volume Groups worked.
Can you partition the proxmox install drive (maybe 3 partions, 2 drives as mirror), putting VMs and ISOs on there as well? Using 3 drives for the basics, excluding storage pool(s) seems wasteful in terms of total controller connections.
In the tutorial you had created a separate disk for VMs. You also initialized the disk for VM creation. WHen you actually created the VM, you used the storage as ISO instead of VM1. Can you explain why? Also, the LVM storage VM1 will only create VMs with raw disks and will not allow qcow2. That means you cannot do snapshots on a LVM disk. Can you clarify, then why did you create a LVM volume called VM1 on a separate disk?
I have added a note to the description stating that we made a mistake here. It should have been the VM1 storage location instead of ISOs. Thank you for pointing this out.
I believe it's possible though depends on your current setup. U need a few packages in order to setup wifi on your machine. Your server must have an ethernet port. so u have to either get a router or a swich. 1. u can use your laptop + switch + wireless internt. create a bridge network on your laptop so that your server can access internet through it. Or find a way of installing these packages after u have installed proxmox: apt-get install net-tools rfkill wireless-tools wpasupplicant These packages allow u to configure wireless internet access. Then follow this guide: Using WPA_Supplicant to Connect to WPA2 Wi-fi from Terminal on Ubuntu 16.04 Server from linuxbabe . com Note: depending on how u go about it. if u succeed in connecting and you are not able to access internet, check your routing table (enter: route cmd), check the default route. it must be the ip of your wireless route. In my case, what i have is this: 1. AIO desktop with internal wireless card. 2. Huawei CPE B593 sim card router. I inserted my simcard into it, connected my AIO via ethernet to download the required packages. 3. My phone's hotspot (Samsung A10s): after downloading the required packages, i switched on my android hotspot (sim card still in router so no internet via phone); configured hotspot access following the guide above; shutdown AIO & router; inserted simcard back into phone; restarted AIO; started wireless card, connected to android hotspot (remember now internet is available cos of inserted simcard); now my laptop + AIO (proxmox installed) have internet access so i can access via web browser.
Please note if you are bringing a drive from NTFS it may not be recognized you may need to format it before adding. Also if using a server with a raid card like a Dell iDrac you may need to remove the drive from the raid to get Prox to see it. Great video!!!
Can you enlighten me on how you actually managed to install proxmox? I took the latest 6.1 release, and used Etcher, Rufus, Win32DiskImager, heck even used ImgBurn to burn the iso to a DVD and EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I get a grub boot error or get punted into Grub Recovery. I have yet to actually see the proxmox install prompt and I've been at this for hours. What settings did you use to burn PM because I'm pulling my hair out! Thanks!
It sounds like your ISO file has been corrupted during the download - sorry. If the Proxmox download page has the option to download the ISO as a *torrent*, use that instead (recommend software: uTorrent). That way you have the ability to *force recheck* downloaded files if you ever have any large file download issues ever again. Plus, you can pause/resume whilst downloading the ISO’s from Proxmox (or anywhere else) too, if you choose. With files above 1.5GB over public networks, torrents are better than one-shot browser downloads.
If the current drives are in ext4 format, and I'd like to change them all to ZFS for Proxmox installation. Do I need to erase and format them before during the installation? Or this instruction step will auto erase and reformat it?
New to learning about Proxmox. Still planning before attempting my first install. I did not realize that Proxmox will consume a whole hard drive making it unavailable for anything else later. I am now looking for tricks on how to install it on a USB instead. :O
USB thumb drives are very slow to boot up and aren’t perfect. You might be wise, if you only have one disk, to format it with a small Proxmox partition - and the whole rest of the disk for VM’s. If you get really stuck for single disk storage, you can delete the installer ISO’s - they’re updated/replaced every few weeks by the developers anyway. It’s about time you gave serious thoughts to adding a second disk for backup. If your single Proxmox VM’s drive fails, you’re screwed. Bad style.
Have any of you tried to run the VE on a 12th gen Intel machine? The new hybrid CPUs have P-Cores and E-Cores and I’m not sure if Debian is able to see them. If Intel is going in this direction, then all future CPUs will have the similar characteristics. Apparently the future Intel Enterprise CPUs (Xeon) will use the LGA1800 socket which will almost identical to the LGA1700 of the Alder Lake. So I guess at one point Proxmox will have to follow the trend with the new generation CPUs. I ask a Proxmox guru like you: Can we install VE on a 12th gen motherboard and take advantage of 12th gen. full functionality?
Hey, quick question. i installed Proxmox just how you showed but when i type in the ip address into my web browser it says the site cant be reached. not sure what I did wrong.
One thing... how can i load a floppy drive image? I tried to load it as a cd-rom, but then the image is empty, i would like to get some stuff that i have on floppydrive images for my FreeDOS VM
Hello , really nice tutorial. I have the problem . On 5:09 you have the timer which show the time counter with seconds. I don't have it and I must choose system to boot (proxmox) manually every time. any advice what can be done? I edited grub and efi. Without success...
at 7:40 there is nothing to select. Do we need a separate partition than where root is mounted? I have several ext4 partitions and several hard disks on this machine. Ideas? Version 6.3 logged in as root.
It’s best practice that all drives/partitions be formatted by Proxmox to ZFS. Ext4 is okay but doesn’t have ZFS’ protections and repairs. Anyway… Are you trying to create a directory on the *correct disk* or partition?
i put my gateway and my static ip but whenever i was to acces the static ip to setup proxmox it doesnt load and keep saying page took too long > what am i doing wrong
Hi, thank you for the tutorial. I've installed proxmox but when i go for creating a directory (minute 7:03) in row "disk" i can't select any disk. Can you help me please?
From shell run "fdisk -l" and it will list all disks and partitions. If the disks still have file systems on them, you will need to delete them. Once done you can use your second SSD/HDD as showed in the video
it seems very wasteful to use entire drives to store proxmox on, and then another drive just for isos.. why is this required? Why can you not just partition one drive to do it all?
I have 3 drives in the pc, one of 500 gb a 2 of 2tb , but i can't create any directories or raid, they don't show when trying to make even a lvm or group directory, nothing, nada. cero any ideas?
I had the same dilemma. Then, I realized the two other Hard Drives I connected to MB still had EXT4 partitions in them. I used Gparted to delete those partitions. Once I rebooted Proxmox, it recognized the disks being available and I was able to create an ISO directory and LVM group.
Please I have a question. I am new to proxmox. I want to use this instead of exsi. I have 3 servers I want to install proxmox on it and I have a 4 server I want to use that as freeNAS datastore. Please do you advice to install all 4 physical servers with proxmox and load the drives in them and use as storage ? Someone said something about ceph and I don’t know what that is
TrueNAS *cannot be installed in ANY virtual machine* - it needs to be installed directly as the *only* OS on the chosen machine (a “bare metal” install). If your fourth server *doesn’t* have any built-in RAID (or it’s okay to ignore it), and it has the *most number of physical hard drive slots*, you should install FreeNAS (now TrueNAS Core 12) on that machine. It doesn’t have to be the fastest (but it does like lots of RAM if you can spare/add it). Use your largest capacity hard drives in the TrueNAS server - as that machine will almost certainly end up being your main storage and backup server for your three Proxmox VM servers. ZFS is the safe/secure way TrueNAS stores all your valuable files - it’s software RAID capabilities are way better than most hardware RAID cards. Be aware, like RAID, when you go up to the ZFS equivalents of RAID-5 (and higher), you don’t see the full capacity of the combined drives because disk redundancy (against a disk failure) is being factored in. You can use a 2GB USB flash drive to run TrueNAS from if you want (some machines have internal USB ports on the motherboard for that), although most people would recommend small capacity SSD’s nowadays: or even two (RAIDed together as mirrors during the TrueNAS install). I imagine your TrueNAS server (with its own ZFS software RAID storage), shouldn’t have any difficulty connecting to storage drives on other servers - but please check that for yourself as I’m not sure. Likewise, your Proxmox VM servers should all be able to see your TrueNAS server and, once permissions within TrueNAS have been applied, be able to read/write to your TrueNAS server storage. You can use backup software to schedule regular backups to your TrueNAS server easily. Good luck!
@@stevearkwright thanks a lot. That is what I’m doing. I have install TrueNas directly in the fourth server and I have 198gb ram and has 20tB ssd. So I will use that as my storage. Now how do I connect that to my 3 proxmox host to utilize the storage ?
@@marvinmensah2956: You're welcome. It's TrueNAS which I'm more familiar with (hence being on a Proxmox beginners page), but I have learned that Proxmox server backups are managed from the Web Management GUI. Here's the link pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore Fortunately, when you log-in to the Web Management page, it doesn't matter which of your three (3) Proxmox machines it's connected to - as the Proxmox clustering layout treats them all as one - which (thank goodness) saves an awful lot of messing about! :-D
@@stevearkwright also does 1. proxmox have something like vcenter that mangers proxmox cluster ? 2. How do you create proxmox cluster for my 3 host.? I saw one RUclips video but it was saying I need two nic on each machine? I only have 1
Hello Thanks for the video. but I don't understand one thing at proxmox. Eg. if I create 10 VMs with ubuntu desktop on it, for 10 PCs located in another city. So how can the 10 desktop users use the VM Ubuntu Desktop then? Do the 10 desktop users have to log in to my Proxmox page with brwoser in order to use the VM ? Or do I have to install software on all 10 desktop PCs so that the 10 users can then use ubuntu ? Thank you
Also, you may find that Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu, has the same programs, capabilities, software repositories, etc.), is more friendly to your ten (10) remote workers if they’re coming from Windows. Ubuntu itself is colourful - but can be unfamiliar and daunting to some traditional Windows users. Mint should be pretty straightforward by comparison. Just make sure you have the RAM to be running 10 x live VM’s at once. You’re talking 24GB RAM *minimum* (preferably much more).
You can’t. You need *two or more disks of equal size* for even standard, basic, traditional RAID - or ZFS. Sorry. When you have a six (or more) disk ZFS/RAID array (sometimes less), you can have *pairs* of unequal sized drives but, typically, that’s only temporarily done whilst the capacity of the array is being “grown”, as larger hard drives are added (replacing smaller, old drives). You need to Partition your 256GB SSD (2GB for Proxmox, second Partition for VM’s *only*). Your 3TB HDD can store your ISO’s, all your shared files from/to your VM’s - and a regular automated backup of your 256GB SSD. I hope this helps!
It was just a demo presentation. Everyone watching this *should* have, at least, *TWO* identically sized drives (mirrored) - but, preferably, a minimum of three, four or more drives set up in RAID-5 (or higher). Otherwise, they’re just inviting a disaster into their lives.
can you please tell how to unmount these disks , as mistakenly i unchecked add storage option so how can we unmount drives , i tried a lot but no success and also the proxmox comunity forum is i think for paid users only , no help from there on new user signup they block user and when u try to login to account it say user blocked due to spam i asked Question on serverfault too : serverfault.com/questions/1016787/proxmox-how-to-remove-disk-from-node
why it's not working for me :( ... I do the same step as you ... I get no error ... when I try to go on the website its not reachable ... what I can do ... this is the second time a reinstall the software I'm in WIndows 10
@Proxmox HHS said the following: I have added a note to the description stating that we made a mistake here. It should have been the VM1 storage location instead of ISOs. Thank you for pointing this out.
CentOS - but that’s since been abandoned by its owners (RedHat). If you want something appealing, powerful but friendly for your OS, go for *Linux Mint* (recommend).
@@noirth-security: I had to use Hyper-V very recently - on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition - it was an abortion. Of all the virtualisation software available on the planet, Microsoft Hyper-V is the utter pits.
In fairness to Proxmox, despite it being free and open source (or because of that), it does work - very well. It may not be overly “enjoyable” (!), yet it *is* powerful, capable, functional and impressively reliable (thus far). Good/stable enough to be rolled out in production across the datacenter. That’s saying something.
@@stevearkwright that is your problem right there. You aren’t even properly running Hyper-V how anyone that runs it would. Retry with “Hyper-V Core free” - it is free. If you optimize Linux for use with Hyper-V by making minor tweaks you have a blazing fast Ubuntu for example. Oh and guess what? Configuring HA (high availability) is super easy, and free. Before slapping Hyper-V in the bum, try it the right way. Hyper-V core, Windows Admin Center, and if you have the hardware then just setup high availability. It’s all easy and free. Sure Windows Admin Center tried to upsell Azure type o’ stuff but just learn what to use free. You have everything you NEED free. The extras are bells and whistles. Also Steve-o, I have run ESXi, Proxmox, Xen, KVM, Qemu, and a bunch of stuff. Hyper-V controlled via Windows Admin Center using the dark mode theme is pretty and awesome! Try again the right way if you care to.
When creating the first Directory, I get a 'no disk selected' message and he drop down for selecting a disk is grayed out. Disks are otherwise recognized through the commands lsblk, etc. Bios detects all three drives, etc... Thoughs?
Oh my god, why wouldn't all tutorials be exactly like this?? Thank you so much!
This tutorial is excellent. It is very clear, concise and doesn't have a lot of rambling and unnecessary minutiae that many other tutorials have.
Great Tutorial! So many beginners need this more basic breakdown of installation and usage processes. Very clear explanation of a complex process. Bravo!
Simple and to the point. What we all need these days. I will definitely install Proxmox and give it a try!
Thank you for the video. When creating the virtual machine in the hard disk tab at 10:58, you left ISOs for the storage option, shouldn't that be changed to VM1 since the LVM was created for the vm's? If not please explain as I am not very familiar with Linux or LVM's
Hello, excuse us for our late reply. You are absolutely correct and we did not notice this when creating the video. We should have selected VM1 instead of ISOs. I will add a note to the description.
Thanks for pointing it out, it was confusing me too. Your questions help me a lot
Phew, I was thinking the same! Good you asked and he replied! Now I know I was able to follow the tutorial hehehe
Good catch!
Very Nice Beginner Tutorial. Thanks!
Thank you very much for this video.
Very well explained for a total beginner like me.
My friend, excelent video, you HAVE to make more explaining other aspects of Proxmox. This was very helpful for me and for many other people. Thank you very much.
My best regards, from Argentina.
Wat is de reden dat je proxmox en de iso's niet op 1 drive zet? En waarom wil je de iso's eigenlijk op je server aangezien je die kan downloaden en eventueel via usb kan overzetten op de drive indien nodig. (Kwestie van drive bays uit te sparen...) Ben van plan om ook server op te zetten thuis, daarom dat ik het vraag 😉 Goeie tutorial! Groetjes vd zuiderbuur.
Couldn't you use a USB flash drive for ISO storage instead of committing an entire hard drive? It's really only there for storing the ISO file for use when installing the OS into your VM you're done with the ISO right?
If you want to spin up new instances on the fly in the future, you need to have the USB inserted indefinitely. So for something like an enterprise where you need to have new VMs for new employees or projects, having it persist in a hard drive would be better, especially if it exists in a separate room on another floor, or a different building, etc... Plus, it could be in a cheap 120 GB HDD. What I'm wondering if it can be a storage partition. I have an SSD, and 3 HDDs for ZFS storage. Seems like I could partition the HDDs for iso storage.
@@ryanmcgowan3061 Cool! That's what I was hoping. I'm only potentially using it at home so needing a persistent HD for spinning something up on the fly isn't really necessary for me.
Yes. If you don’t need the IS0 any more, you can safely bin it.
what about who has only one HArd Drive, which is the best way to organize? Is there a tutorial?
Same here!
partition it...
2GB Partition for Proxmox - second partition for all your ISO’s + VM’s.
Think *seriously* about getting another drive (even an external USB), for automated backups.
When your main, single drive fails (and it will, someday), you’ll be totally boned.
Like running out of your burning home without the family photo album boned.
@@stevearkwright Is proxmox unstable? I've never had a hard drive fail. Do you have suggested set up videos for proxmox and multiple VMs on partitions?
Is a separate disk necessary for the ISO's? Would it be ok to have one disk for proxmox and iso, and another disk for the VM's?
Thank you for this comment, and sorry if this was not clear in the video. It is not necessary to create a seperate disk just for the ISO's. You can use one disk for Proxmox and ISO's and one for VM's. By default you can upload ISO's to the Proxmox installation drive by going to Datacenter > pve (or any other node) > local > Content > Upload. Hope this helped. If you have any questions, feel free to ask more.
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Should be able to create folders and put in.
@@proxmoxhhs1911 Is a separate drive for vms required or is it recommended? Say my server has a single raid array, can all live together.. if not can I partition it in the base proxmox installation? Thanks!
@@proxmoxhhs1911 anyway, could you give a background why is separating those into different phisical drives is beneficial?
Because intuitively, same as the whole Proxmox hypervising is intended to, I'd like to share resources and combine as much as possible. I understand that both options are available, but what are the benefits?
⚠️ You don’t need a separate drive or partition just for ISO’s. After you’ve installed your VM’s, you don’t even need to keep the ISO’s if you don’t need them for further installations - you can safely delete them. All they’re doing is getting outdated and hogging up hard drive space. Bin them!
Thank you for making this tutorial. At first two attempts, I was pulling my hair as to why I can't create directory for ISO nor create Volume groups. Then I realize I was connect Hard Drives that already had EXT4 partition in it, which Proxmox didn't like. After erasing the disks using Gparted, install of ISO directory and creation of Volume Groups worked.
Great tutorial! Super helpful. Thank you for making!
the instllation was done on the ISO drive. why not the LVM drive VM1 you created ?
Very good tutorial muntu wandi 👍🏽👍
Thank you, this tutorial is very informative for beginner. hope you make more videos
Thank you for this tutorial, very well explained. Could you do another video about a machin in a container and a machine in VM
You set up the new vm on the ISOs datastore..
Great job, very intuitive video. Thank you
Can you partition the proxmox install drive (maybe 3 partions, 2 drives as mirror), putting VMs and ISOs on there as well? Using 3 drives for the basics, excluding storage pool(s) seems wasteful in terms of total controller connections.
im sure this is a stupid question but what is meant by 'usury device' I can find no reference to this in the IT world.
In the tutorial you had created a separate disk for VMs. You also initialized the disk for VM creation. WHen you actually created the VM, you used the storage as ISO instead of VM1. Can you explain why? Also, the LVM storage VM1 will only create VMs with raw disks and will not allow qcow2. That means you cannot do snapshots on a LVM disk. Can you clarify, then why did you create a LVM volume called VM1 on a separate disk?
I have added a note to the description stating that we made a mistake here. It should have been the VM1 storage location instead of ISOs. Thank you for pointing this out.
did you use a raid controller for physicial harddisk?
Can Proxmox work in a single hard drive? Can it work offline.
Thanks for the video, great help.
Great tutorial,
Can i use my wireless card to install proxmox?
Unfortunately I don't have Ethernet wires for where the server will be installed.
I believe it's possible though depends on your current setup.
U need a few packages in order to setup wifi on your machine. Your server must have an ethernet port. so u have to either get a router or a swich.
1. u can use your laptop + switch + wireless internt. create a bridge network on your laptop so that your server can access internet through it.
Or
find a way of installing these packages after u have installed proxmox: apt-get install net-tools rfkill wireless-tools wpasupplicant
These packages allow u to configure wireless internet access.
Then follow this guide: Using WPA_Supplicant to Connect to WPA2 Wi-fi from Terminal on Ubuntu 16.04 Server from linuxbabe . com
Note: depending on how u go about it. if u succeed in connecting and you are not able to access internet, check your routing table (enter: route cmd), check the default route. it must be the ip of your wireless route.
In my case, what i have is this:
1. AIO desktop with internal wireless card.
2. Huawei CPE B593 sim card router. I inserted my simcard into it, connected my AIO via ethernet to download the required packages.
3. My phone's hotspot (Samsung A10s): after downloading the required packages, i switched on my android hotspot (sim card still in router so no internet via phone); configured hotspot access following the guide above; shutdown AIO & router; inserted simcard back into phone; restarted AIO; started wireless card, connected to android hotspot (remember now internet is available cos of inserted simcard); now my laptop + AIO (proxmox installed) have internet access so i can access via web browser.
Great tutorial. Thank you.
I wonder if it is better to use the 3 hard drives separately or make them raid 5?
What is the ideal setup for data security?
very goed totorial. Dankjewel :)
Thank you very informative and straight teaching method...
This is a life saver! , thank you for this good tutorial.
Thank for the video was very helpful for me.
Please note if you are bringing a drive from NTFS it may not be recognized you may need to format it before adding. Also if using a server with a raid card like a Dell iDrac you may need to remove the drive from the raid to get Prox to see it. Great video!!!
Thanks so much your the best
Excuse me do you have any details on how or where to get a server? A link or something that could lead me on the good road...
You created a Disk for Virtual machine but created it on ISOs disk? did I get it right?
Actually that was a mistake in video, he accepts in his comment here.
Can you enlighten me on how you actually managed to install proxmox? I took the latest 6.1 release, and used Etcher, Rufus, Win32DiskImager, heck even used ImgBurn to burn the iso to a DVD and EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I get a grub boot error or get punted into Grub Recovery. I have yet to actually see the proxmox install prompt and I've been at this for hours. What settings did you use to burn PM because I'm pulling my hair out! Thanks!
USB stick with balena etcher?
When you sue Rufus, it asks you whether to install it in ISO or DD mode. Use DD mode, it should fix your problem!
It sounds like your ISO file has been corrupted during the download - sorry.
If the Proxmox download page has the option to download the ISO as a *torrent*, use that instead (recommend software: uTorrent).
That way you have the ability to *force recheck* downloaded files if you ever have any large file download issues ever again. Plus, you can pause/resume whilst downloading the ISO’s from Proxmox (or anywhere else) too, if you choose.
With files above 1.5GB over public networks, torrents are better than one-shot browser downloads.
Brilliant video could i please request a video on creating zfs pools and gpu passthrough for a windows 10 vm
If the current drives are in ext4 format, and I'd like to change them all to ZFS for Proxmox installation. Do I need to erase and format them before during the installation? Or this instruction step will auto erase and reformat it?
New to learning about Proxmox. Still planning before attempting my first install. I did not realize that Proxmox will consume a whole hard drive making it unavailable for anything else later. I am now looking for tricks on how to install it on a USB instead. :O
you can partition your hard drive proxmox needs 2GB of hard drive space.
USB thumb drives are very slow to boot up and aren’t perfect. You might be wise, if you only have one disk, to format it with a small Proxmox partition - and the whole rest of the disk for VM’s. If you get really stuck for single disk storage, you can delete the installer ISO’s - they’re updated/replaced every few weeks by the developers anyway.
It’s about time you gave serious thoughts to adding a second disk for backup. If your single Proxmox VM’s drive fails, you’re screwed. Bad style.
Have any of you tried to run the VE on a 12th gen Intel machine? The new hybrid CPUs have P-Cores and E-Cores and I’m not sure if Debian is able to see them. If Intel is going in this direction, then all future CPUs will have the similar characteristics. Apparently the future Intel Enterprise CPUs (Xeon) will use the LGA1800 socket which will almost identical to the LGA1700 of the Alder Lake.
So I guess at one point Proxmox will have to follow the trend with the new generation CPUs.
I ask a Proxmox guru like you: Can we install VE on a 12th gen motherboard and take advantage of 12th gen. full functionality?
a proxmox tutorial where proxmox is installed as virtual machine on vmware...thats rich!
Is it possible to create a smaller partition from within ProxMox's installer?
Does the installation make the ip address of the Proxmox static?
Hey, quick question. i installed Proxmox just how you showed but when i type in the ip address into my web browser it says the site cant be reached. not sure what I did wrong.
did you type with https???
Make sure to use HTTPS.
And also don’t forget the port number. Type it exactly as you see on the screen of the computer you install it on e.g. 192.168.1.100:8006
How to know if the network settings are correct? Where do you reference them from? Do you get this info from the router/modem? Does it matter?
you managed to know something about this?
nice... thanks
One thing... how can i load a floppy drive image?
I tried to load it as a cd-rom, but then the image is empty, i would like to get some stuff that i have on floppydrive images for my FreeDOS VM
Can you use one disk with 3 partitions?
Hello , really nice tutorial. I have the problem . On 5:09 you have the timer which show the time counter with seconds. I don't have it and I must choose system to boot (proxmox) manually every time. any advice what can be done? I edited grub and efi. Without success...
Have you tried downloading/using *GRUB Customizer* instead of tramping around inside grub.cfg?
How many VMs could run on 64 gigs of ram and a 12 core cpu with good performance?
at 7:40 there is nothing to select. Do we need a separate partition than where root is mounted? I have several ext4 partitions and several hard disks on this machine. Ideas? Version 6.3 logged in as root.
It’s best practice that all drives/partitions be formatted by Proxmox to ZFS. Ext4 is okay but doesn’t have ZFS’ protections and repairs. Anyway…
Are you trying to create a directory on the *correct disk* or partition?
Hi my iso upload was limited to 1.90 GIB, But you add a 4 GIB ISO, what did I miss or what did i do wrong?
you vg volume group is not used?
i put my gateway and my static ip but whenever i was to acces the static ip to setup proxmox it doesnt load and keep saying page took too long > what am i doing wrong
Hi, thank you for the tutorial. I've installed proxmox but when i go for creating a directory (minute 7:03) in row "disk" i can't select any disk. Can you help me please?
From shell run "fdisk -l" and it will list all disks and partitions. If the disks still have file systems on them, you will need to delete them. Once done you can use your second SSD/HDD as showed in the video
nice video and good pace.
Thank you for this tutorial
Perfect and clear tutorial, thank you. I installed on my main (SSD) drive. Now, I can't reboot back to windows (10).
lol
it seems very wasteful to use entire drives to store proxmox on, and then another drive just for isos.. why is this required? Why can you not just partition one drive to do it all?
When I upload an ISO it goes to 100% and ends with "Error 401: permission denied - invalid PVE ticket"
Can you tell me what is the reason for this?
Ok, just got it, there is a timeout for max upload time, just connected the source by cable instead wLan.
Can you show how to run MAC OSX on Proxmox? Have seen it running, but no video on how to do it.
can someone help me how to ssh into our virtual machines on Proxmox from a remote computer.
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hello i have installed this platform but does not allow to shutdown vm from shutdown
Can we have a video on high availability ?
I have 3 drives in the pc, one of 500 gb a 2 of 2tb , but i can't create any directories or raid, they don't show when trying to make even a lvm or group directory, nothing, nada. cero any ideas?
I had the same dilemma. Then, I realized the two other Hard Drives I connected to MB still had EXT4 partitions in them. I used Gparted to delete those partitions. Once I rebooted Proxmox, it recognized the disks being available and I was able to create an ISO directory and LVM group.
Please I have a question. I am new to proxmox. I want to use this instead of exsi. I have 3 servers I want to install proxmox on it and I have a 4 server I want to use that as freeNAS datastore. Please do you advice to install all 4 physical servers with proxmox and load the drives in them and use as storage ? Someone said something about ceph and I don’t know what that is
TrueNAS *cannot be installed in ANY virtual machine* - it needs to be installed directly as the *only* OS on the chosen machine (a “bare metal” install).
If your fourth server *doesn’t* have any built-in RAID (or it’s okay to ignore it), and it has the *most number of physical hard drive slots*, you should install FreeNAS (now TrueNAS Core 12) on that machine. It doesn’t have to be the fastest (but it does like lots of RAM if you can spare/add it).
Use your largest capacity hard drives in the TrueNAS server - as that machine will almost certainly end up being your main storage and backup server for your three Proxmox VM servers.
ZFS is the safe/secure way TrueNAS stores all your valuable files - it’s software RAID capabilities are way better than most hardware RAID cards. Be aware, like RAID, when you go up to the ZFS equivalents of RAID-5 (and higher), you don’t see the full capacity of the combined drives because disk redundancy (against a disk failure) is being factored in.
You can use a 2GB USB flash drive to run TrueNAS from if you want (some machines have internal USB ports on the motherboard for that), although most people would recommend small capacity SSD’s nowadays: or even two (RAIDed together as mirrors during the TrueNAS install).
I imagine your TrueNAS server (with its own ZFS software RAID storage), shouldn’t have any difficulty connecting to storage drives on other servers - but please check that for yourself as I’m not sure.
Likewise, your Proxmox VM servers should all be able to see your TrueNAS server and, once permissions within TrueNAS have been applied, be able to read/write to your TrueNAS server storage. You can use backup software to schedule regular backups to your TrueNAS server easily.
Good luck!
@@stevearkwright thanks a lot. That is what I’m doing. I have install TrueNas directly in the fourth server and I have 198gb ram and has 20tB ssd. So I will use that as my storage. Now how do I connect that to my 3 proxmox host to utilize the storage ?
@@stevearkwright can I get your email please ? If you don’t mind
@@marvinmensah2956: You're welcome.
It's TrueNAS which I'm more familiar with (hence being on a Proxmox beginners page), but I have learned that Proxmox server backups are managed from the Web Management GUI. Here's the link pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore
Fortunately, when you log-in to the Web Management page, it doesn't matter which of your three (3) Proxmox machines it's connected to - as the Proxmox clustering layout treats them all as one - which (thank goodness) saves an awful lot of messing about! :-D
@@stevearkwright also does
1. proxmox have something like vcenter that mangers proxmox cluster ?
2. How do you create proxmox cluster for my 3 host.? I saw one RUclips video but it was saying I need two nic on each machine? I only have 1
Hello
Thanks for the video. but I don't understand one thing at proxmox.
Eg.
if I create 10 VMs with ubuntu desktop on it, for 10 PCs located in another city. So how can the 10 desktop users use the VM Ubuntu Desktop then?
Do the 10 desktop users have to log in to my Proxmox page with brwoser in order to use the VM ? Or do I have to install software on all 10 desktop PCs so that the 10 users can then use ubuntu ?
Thank you
You need to configure Remote Access software for them - and a VPN so they can securely “tunnel in” to do their work.
Also, you may find that Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu, has the same programs, capabilities, software repositories, etc.), is more friendly to your ten (10) remote workers if they’re coming from Windows. Ubuntu itself is colourful - but can be unfamiliar and daunting to some traditional Windows users. Mint should be pretty straightforward by comparison.
Just make sure you have the RAM to be running 10 x live VM’s at once. You’re talking 24GB RAM *minimum* (preferably much more).
@@stevearkwright OK Steve , thank you.
If I have 1 SSD 256GB and 1 HDD 3TB, which RAID should i select to create ZFS ?
You can’t. You need *two or more disks of equal size* for even standard, basic, traditional RAID - or ZFS. Sorry.
When you have a six (or more) disk ZFS/RAID array (sometimes less), you can have *pairs* of unequal sized drives but, typically, that’s only temporarily done whilst the capacity of the array is being “grown”, as larger hard drives are added (replacing smaller, old drives).
You need to Partition your 256GB SSD (2GB for Proxmox, second Partition for VM’s *only*).
Your 3TB HDD can store your ISO’s, all your shared files from/to your VM’s - and a regular automated backup of your 256GB SSD.
I hope this helps!
Great!
Pls make network settings
Why not RAID? If it's for production use then a Hard drive failure will be a disaster
It was just a demo presentation. Everyone watching this *should* have, at least, *TWO* identically sized drives (mirrored) - but, preferably, a minimum of three, four or more drives set up in RAID-5 (or higher). Otherwise, they’re just inviting a disaster into their lives.
can you please tell how to unmount these disks , as mistakenly i unchecked add storage option so how can we unmount drives , i tried a lot but no success and also the proxmox comunity forum is i think for paid users only , no help from there on new user signup they block user and when u try to login to account it say user blocked due to spam
i asked Question on serverfault too : serverfault.com/questions/1016787/proxmox-how-to-remove-disk-from-node
why it's not working for me :( ... I do the same step as you ... I get no error ... when I try to go on the website its not reachable ... what I can do ... this is the second time a reinstall the software I'm in WIndows 10
You should always put prefix before IP address.
And the *port number* after it.
Can tech how to set static ip for vm..?? Plz
You set that from within your Router itself.
Can a disk be used for ISOs and VMs ?
Yes as far as I know.
Yes. You can even delete the ISO’s if you no longer need them, they’re just hogging up space - a lot of it!
Great tutorial thank you! I think you accidentally used the ISO storage for your VM
Isn´t that only the source for the iso files to populate the ISO Image DropDown?
@Proxmox HHS said the following:
I have added a note to the description stating that we made a mistake here. It should have been the VM1 storage location instead of ISOs. Thank you for pointing this out.
do i need fast internet connection to run vm in my computer smoothly ? if low internet do my vm get disconnected during os is running?
what os did u use
CentOS - but that’s since been abandoned by its owners (RedHat).
If you want something appealing, powerful but friendly for your OS, go for *Linux Mint* (recommend).
good
2:52 We get an error
use etcher to write the ISO to flash drive.
Really great tutorial, I've learn a lot, you didn't changed the storage at ruclips.net/video/I-e1_CTa4s0/видео.html it should be VM1 storage.
LTT
Hyper-V is way better now, I no longer enjoy Proxmox :/
Sadly, Microsoft Hyper-V is still *dreadful* - and extremely unfriendly to anyone who hasn’t got MCSE or a degree in advanced computing.
@@stevearkwright are you being real? It’s click click done. Use something called Windows Admin Center. It’s pretty and easy
@@noirth-security: I had to use Hyper-V very recently - on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition - it was an abortion.
Of all the virtualisation software available on the planet, Microsoft Hyper-V is the utter pits.
In fairness to Proxmox, despite it being free and open source (or because of that), it does work - very well. It may not be overly “enjoyable” (!), yet it *is* powerful, capable, functional and impressively reliable (thus far). Good/stable enough to be rolled out in production across the datacenter. That’s saying something.
@@stevearkwright that is your problem right there. You aren’t even properly running Hyper-V how anyone that runs it would. Retry with “Hyper-V Core free” - it is free. If you optimize Linux for use with Hyper-V by making minor tweaks you have a blazing fast Ubuntu for example. Oh and guess what? Configuring HA (high availability) is super easy, and free. Before slapping Hyper-V in the bum, try it the right way. Hyper-V core, Windows Admin Center, and if you have the hardware then just setup high availability. It’s all easy and free. Sure Windows Admin Center tried to upsell Azure type o’ stuff but just learn what to use free. You have everything you NEED free. The extras are bells and whistles. Also Steve-o, I have run ESXi, Proxmox, Xen, KVM, Qemu, and a bunch of stuff. Hyper-V controlled via Windows Admin Center using the dark mode theme is pretty and awesome! Try again the right way if you care to.
When creating the first Directory, I get a 'no disk selected' message and he drop down for selecting a disk is grayed out. Disks are otherwise recognized through the commands lsblk, etc. Bios detects all three drives, etc... Thoughs?
same issue here...
Format to ZFS.