Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Basic Concepts of Proxmox Virtual Environment; Introduction to Proxmox Virtual Environment; Introduction to server virtualization; Server virtualization basics
  • guest versus host; Comparing types of server virtualization software; Comparison table of hypervisors; Basic administration on Proxmox VE; Uploading the OS template or the ISO file to Proxmox; Creating an OpenVZ-based virtual machine; Creating a kernel-based virtual machine; Accessing the new virtual machine
  • Virtualization options explained in Proxmox VEVirtual disk options under Proxmox VE; Introducing the OpenVZ template; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started with a High Availability (HA) Environment; What is High Availability (HA) environment?; What is availability?; Negative effects of system downtime; Strategies to achieve High Availability (HA); Introducing a Proxmox VE cluster; Introduction to DRBD; Explaining live migration; Introducing the post-copy memory migration; Introducing the pre-copy memory migration; System requirements for the Proxmox cluster; Describing the requirements for RAID
  • The RAID 0 operationThe RAID 1 operation; The RAID 10 operation; HA capability for Proxmox with a two-node cluster; The Proxmox Cluster file system (pmxcfs); Summary; Chapter 3: Key Components for Building a Proxmox VE Cluster; Key component 1
  • shared storage; Characteristics of SAN and NAS; Available storage options in Proxmox; Storage option 1
  • storage over iSCSI; Storage option 3
  • the Gluster filesystem; Storage option 2
  • a distributed replicated block device (DRBD); Storage option 4
  • the Ceph filesystem; Comparing types of file storage supported by Proxmox
  • Key component 2
  • reliable networkKey component 3
  • a fencing device; What is a fencing device?; Available fencing device options; Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI); Simple network management protocol (SNMP); Key component 4
  • quorum disk; Summary; Chapter 4: Configuring a Proxmox VE Cluster; Configuring a network for a Proxmox VE cluster; Building a network with redundancy; Building a separate network for the Proxmox VE cluster; Introducing Proxmox's network options; Introducing the VLAN structure; Creating an infrastructure for a Proxmox cluster testing environment
  • The concept of a quorum deviceThe concept of a bonding device; The concept of DRBD; Preparing a network for a Proxmox cluster; Preparing storage for a Proxmox cluster; Preparing iSCSI shared storage with NAS4free for the quorum device; Basic concepts of an iSCSI device; Configuring a Proxmox VE cluster; Forming a two-node cluster with DRBD; Installing and configuring DRBD; Creating an LVM volume based on DRBD shared storage; Network fencing with a Cisco switch via SNMP; Building a Gluster filesystem for a Proxmox cluster; Building a Ceph filesystem for a Proxmox cluster