Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of virtualisation is beneficial for this workshop. Participants should have foundational knowledge of Linux systems as well as basic networking skills.
• There are no specific prerequisites regarding previous experience with Proxmox.
• The workshop is designed to introduce both beginners and advanced users to the diverse capabilities of Proxmox virtualisation and to deepen their knowledge.

Course Content

• Overview of Proxmox VE
• Setting up a single node: Concepts / Architecture / Technology
• Hardware requirements for a single-node setup
• Installation and management of software updates
• Introduction to web-based management (GUI)
• Network model
• Storage model - local and shared storage
• NEW: VM snapshots on thick-provisioned LVM storage (iSCSI/FC SAN) as volume chains
• NEW: RAIDZ expansion - adding devices to existing ZFS RAIDZ pools
• Fundamentals of authentication and user management
• KVM: Creating and managing virtual machines (Windows & Linux)
• LXC: Creating and managing containers (Linux only)
• NEW: Creating containers from OCI images (Open Container Initiative)
• NEW: Nested virtualisation for specialised VMs
• Managing the start-up and shutdown behaviour of VMs and containers
• Backup and recovery, scheduling
• Proxmox VE Firewall
• Guest provisioning
• Proxmox VE cluster setup: Concepts / Architecture / Technology
• Hardware requirements for a cluster installation
• Proxmox VE cluster: Features / Setup / Configuration / Management
• Managing the uptime of guest operating systems
• High availability (HA) - the Proxmox VE HA Manager and Corosync
• NEW: HA rules and resource affinity
• NEW: Datacentre bulk actions - tag-based mass management
• Concepts for security enhancement
• Hyperconverged infrastructure with Ceph
• NEW: SDN fabrics - OpenFabric and OSPF for complex network architectures
• Proxmox VE storage replication framework• Troubleshooting (for single-node setups and cluster installations)
• Establishing a baseline for node performance (networks & clusters)
• Migration of VMware workloads to Proxmox (introduction)