Learning Proxmox VE : unleash the power of Proxmox VE by setting up a dedicated virtual environment to serve both containers and virtual machines / Rik Goldman.

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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Proxmox VE Fundamentals; Proxmox VE in brief; Virtualization with Proxmox VE; KVM; QEMU; OS Virtualization with Proxmox VE; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing Proxmox VE; Hardware requirements and recommendations for Proxmox VE; a //aDownloading Proxmox VE; Verifying the downloaded image; Ensuring hardware virtualization extensions are installed; Enabling hardware virtualization extensions; Preparing for the Proxmox VE Installer; Installing Proxmox VE

Upgrading PVE from the command lineDisabling the enterprise repository; Enabling a non-subscriber repository; Updating and upgrading Proxmox VE; Summary; Chapter 3: Creating Containers; Understanding the container advantage; Proxmox VE and the case for LXC; Container templates; Downloading templates; Logging in to Proxmox VE's web interface; Browsing available container templates; Downloading a container; a //aFrom template to container; Starting and stopping containers; Changing container states with the command line; Accessing a container; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating Virtual Machines

Distinguishing features of virtual machinesScenarios for system virtualization; Creating a virtual machine; Installation media; Uploading an ISO file to local storage on PVE; Preparing a virtual machine; Anticipating the configuration tabs; General; OS; CD/DVD; Hard Disk; CPU; Memory; Network; Confirm; Controlling the state of a virtual machine; Controlling a VM from the PVE command line; Practicing the creation of virtual machines; Virtualizing Windows Server 2012r2 with Proxmox VE; Configuring and creating the virtual machine; Starting the VM and installing Windows Server

Creating a VM for Fedora 23 ServerCommand line virtual machine creation; Summary; Chapter 5: Working with Virtual Disks; Understanding virtual disks; Coming to terms; Understanding virtual disk configuration; Choosing a virtual disk format; QCOW2; RAW; VMDK; Choosing a bus; Understanding cache options; a //aLearning more; Summary; Chapter 6: Networking with Proxmox VE; Proxmox VE network model; Bridged configuration; NAT configuration; Routed configuration; VLAN support; NIC bonding; Network configuration for virtual servers; Providing basic connectivity; Of VMs and vNICs

Bridge configurationUsing NAT configuration; Summary; Chapter 7: Securing Proxmox VE; Security benefits of virtualization; Attack surface reduction; Isolation; Availability of prior states; Hardware abstraction; Segmentation; Encapsulation and portability; Physical security; Fine privilege control; PVE firewall features; Aggravated vulnerabilities; Denial of service attacks; VM escape and hyper jumping; Virtualization sprawl; At war with complexity; ; Taking action; Protecting the boot process; pagebreak //pagebreakLocking down the bootloader; Locking down BIOS/UEFI

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