Learning Proxmox VE电子书

Learning Proxmox VE

Learning Proxmox VE

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book 

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Proxmox VE Fundamentals

Proxmox VE in brief

Virtualization with Proxmox VE

KVM

QEMU

OS Virtualization with Proxmox VE

Summary

2. Installing Proxmox VE

Hardware requirements and recommendations for Proxmox VE

Downloading 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 line

Disabling the enterprise repository

Enabling a non-subscriber repository

Updating and upgrading Proxmox VE

Summary

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

From template to container

Starting and stopping containers

Changing container states with the command line

Accessing a container

Summary

4. Creating Virtual Machines

Distinguishing features of virtual machines

Scenarios 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 Server

Command line virtual machine creation

Summary

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

Learning more

Summary

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 configuration

Using NAT configuration

Summary

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

Locking down the bootloader

Locking down BIOS/UEFI

Hardening the OS and hypervisor

Prohibit remote access to the hypervisor

Harden SSH

Disabling root account access via SSH

Preventing brute-force attacks against SSH

Relying on key-based authentication

Managing patches

Enterprise subscriptions

Summary