Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease.
So this week I have been playing with Proxmox LXC Containers and migrating some of our Infra VM’s to Ubuntu 22.04 LXC Proxmox Containers to lower the load on our Proxmox cluster. This is the process that I use to create an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC Proxmox Container: Create an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC Proxmox Container Open […]
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Overview After Testing this Proxmox Cluster Monitoring Dashboard with InfluxDB and Grafana on a Docker Compose Container and finding it worked really well until the container was rebooted as it lost all its InfluxDB settings even though it was configured with persistent disks, I decided to create a new Proxmox LXC Ubuntu 22.04 container and
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Before starting this how too you will need to have already made an Ubuntu 22.04 Proxmox LXC Template. Once you have a template created go to the Proxmox GUI and select the template in the left hand menu: Right click on the template name: Click on Clone to open the Clone wizard: If you want
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This morning at work I have been migrating our docker compose containers that currently run on an Ubuntu 22.04 Server VM onto individual Proxmox LXC containers running Ubuntu 22.04 so I thought that I would document it here so that I have a record of what I did and pass on the information as the
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Create an Ubuntu 22.04 Server Proxmox VM from a template In order to create a VM from a template you need to first complete an Ubuntu 22.04 Server Proxmox VM template. This process has been documented HERE so if you have not already created a templete go there and create one. The process of creating
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Create Ubuntu 22.04 Server Proxmox VM Template Overview A Proxmox template is really useful to quickly create new Ubuntu VM’s in a few steps that are all have the same basic configuration already setup. Templates are also useful for Ansible automation as it gives all VM’s created with it a standard base image to work
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Creating an Ubuntu 22.04 Server Proxmox VM This post will walk you through Creating an Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Proxmox VM. Before Starting this process make sure that you upload the Ubuntu 22.04 desktop ISO to your Proxmox server by following THIS post. Create a New Ubuntu 22.04 Server VM In order to create a VM on
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This post will walk you through Creating an Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Proxmox VM. Before Starting this process make sure that you upload the Ubuntu 22.04 desktop ISO to your Proxmox server by following THIS post. Create a New Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop VM In order to create a VM on Proxmox, from the home page click
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Now that we have a freshly installed Proxmox Server we will need some Ubuntu ISO’s on the server to create Ubuntu VM’s. Downloading ISO’s to local PC Before we can upload Ubuntu 22.04 ISO’s to our Proxmox server we need to download them from the Ubuntu Website. Get Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop ISO To get the
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Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with
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