Course 100 - Proxmox VE Installation and Administration

Proxmox Virtual Environment Installation and Administration (100) provides the technical foundation for deploying and managing individual Proxmox VE servers in standalone deployments or as a node in a Proxmox VE cluster. It will cover the essential concepts and topics with practical hands-on labs using virtual machines (VMs) and Linux containers (LXCs) to explore networking, storage, authentication, backups and troubleshooting.

This course is available as part of Proxmox VE Training Bundle

Topics

• The architecture of Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) and considerations when deploying in single-server scenarios, including hardware and network connectivity.
• Common storage types used in single server deployments including ZFS, LVM, NFS and SMB/CIFS.
• Network connectivity including Linux bridging, interface bonding, the integrated firewall and Proxmox VE Software-Defined Network.
  
• Creation and management of guests (i.e. virtual machines (VMs) and Linux containers (LXCs)) including cloning and using Cloud-init images. 
• Migration from other hypervisors (V2V) or from physical hosts (P2V) including the integrated ESXi import tool. 
• User and permission management.
• Guest backups, scheduling, and retention management.
• Introduction to the Proxmox VE CLI tools. Many of the tasks in the labs are done in both the web GUI and command line.
• Troubleshooting.

Recommended For

This course is for IT professionals interested in learning the fundamental concepts, architecture, and functionality of the Proxmox VE platform. The content is focused on topics related to individual Proxmox VE servers in standalone deployments or as a node in a Proxmox VE cluster. Additionally, this course covers deploying and managing PVE guests (virtual machines and Linux containers).

This course covers material not included in Course 101 Proxmox VE Advanced.

Course Format: Online with instructor in a live virtual environment.