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Mastering Proxmox

Mastering Proxmox

By : Ahmed
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Mastering Proxmox

Mastering Proxmox

4.3 (18)
By: Ahmed

Overview of this book

This is not an instructional guide, but a practical, scenario-based book which guides you through everything you need to know in a practical manner by letting you build your own cluster. By the end of the book, you will have a fully functional Proxmox cluster setup at your disposal and have the knowledge to replicate virtualization solutions .If you already know what the word virtualization means and you are ready to stand out from the crowd equipped with the unique ability to design and implement a rock-solid virtualized network environment using Proxmox, then you have just picked up the only book you will need. Linux system administration experience together with knowledge of networking and virtualization concepts is assumed. This book is also useful if you are already using Proxmox and simply want to master its advanced features.
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Storage types in Proxmox

In the previous section, we saw the image types that can be used in a Proxmox cluster to create a virtual machine. We will now look at different storage types where we can store those image files. Proxmox supports a wide selection of storage types for virtual machine storing:

  • Directory: This is mostly a locally mounted folder
  • LVM: This stands for the Logical Volume Management group
  • NFS: This stands for the Network File System share
  • iSCSI: This stands for the Internet SCSI target
  • GlusterFS: This stands for Gluster File System
  • RBD: This stands for RADOS Block Devices

The storage types are shown in the following screenshot:

Storage types in Proxmox

Directory

Directory storage is mostly a mounted folder on the Proxmox local node. It is mainly used as local storage. By default, this location is mounted under /var/lib/vz.

Any VM stored in this Directory storage does not allow live migration. The VM must be stopped before migrating to another node. All virtual disk image file types can be stored in the...

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