Proxmox: migrate a virtual machine into two servers

In this tutorial, we will see how to move / migrate a virtual machine between two Proxmox servers. In order to be able to move a virtual machine between two Proxmox servers, the servers must be members of the same cluster (Datacenter). In this tutorial, we will move VM 103 which is located on server …

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Proxmox: create a virtual machine

In this tutorial, I will show how to create a virtual computer (VM) from the Proxmox administration web interface. Create a virtual machine on Proxmox From the Web interface, go to the Proxmox server where you want to create the virtual computer and click on the Create VM 1 button. Enter the name 1 of …

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Proxmox: use ZFS as a storage system

In this tutorial, we will see how to use ZFS as a storage system on Proxmox. What is ZFS? Before starting this tutorial, we will see what ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is. In reality ZFS is a file system, but as you will see in its presentation, ZFS is much more than that, it is …

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Proxmox: quorum configuration with a cluster of 2 servers

In this tutorial, I will explain how to configure quorum with a Proxmox cluster composed of two servers. Before starting this tutorial, we will talk about Quorum. What is Quorum Here is a brief definition of Quorum: it is the minimum number of voters necessary in an assembly to make a decision. Transposed into computing …

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Proxmox: partition a disk

In this tutorial, I will explain how to partition a disk on Proxmox and then assign the partitions to storage. In this tutorial, you can see that I have two “disks” sda and sdb. In fact, these are two virtual disks created on a RAID 5 disk group on the server itself. The sda disk …

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Proxmox: configure a cluster with Ceph storage

In this tutorial, I will explain how to configure a cluster with Proxmox in order to ensure high availability and storage management will be with Ceph in order to have a Hyperconverged virtualization environment. Presentation Before launching into the tutorial, I will cover a few points for newbies. Let’s start with hyperconvergence, traditionally the Clustering …

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Proxmox: installing a Hypervisor

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Proxmox on a physical server. I used a DELL server and performed the installation through the iDRAC console. Regarding the configuration of the server, it has 2 CPUs, 32GB of RAM and 8 hard drives. The disk configuration is as follows: To get started, download Proxmox …

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