Proxmox installation and configuration manual

[unsichtbarre]

Greentigs,

I have put a Proxmox training manual together for my team (and others) and I would like to offer it here for review/use by the community. This is not intended to be a technical deep-dive, rather a practical point-to-point to help users perform common configuration and tasks. It is rough, as I do not have a copy editor, but I will continue to improve it.

I am licensing this with the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license, so anyone is free to use and remix the material with attribution. I also solicit contribution, correction and suggestions via the forum I have made available.

Download or view here: https://pvemanual.com

Thanks,

-JB

 

[Johannes S]

What's the purpoose behind a manual not served by the official documentation? If the official docs is lacking it would make more sense to supply patches to improve it.

 

[unsichtbarre]

What's the purpoose behind a manual not served by the official documentation? If the official docs is lacking it would make more sense to supply patches to improve it.

The purpose is providing structure rather than topics individually. A procedure if you will.
I have no reason to suggest that the official documentation isn't completely correct but it is very compartmentalized per subject.
Moreover, if ever I find an error in the official documentation I have every intention of submitting that and or 'supplying patches' as you say

-JB

 

[UdoB]

I have put a Proxmox training manual together

Nice work! Obviously it focuses on your Lab, thanks to make it available

 

[unsichtbarre]

Nice work! Obviously it focuses on your Lab, thanks to make it available

I tried to create an environment that was representative of many of the Enterprise network layouts in which I've been working for the last 20 years. Use of VLANs, separation of networks, integration with active directory all were primary goals. Yes the material is specific to my lab, but I hope the procedures can journal over into many environments. Hopefully this information makes it just a little bit easier for organizations to get on the Proxmox bandwagon.
-JB

 

[Johannes S]

The purpose is providing structure rather than topics individually. A procedure if you will.

Fair enough and thanks for sharing your work Just you don't get the wrong idea: The reason why I'm weary of such things that I fear that inofficial material might get outdated at some point and information got split on different places. It wasn't to descredit your effort in making it

 

[unsichtbarre]

Fair enough and thanks for sharing your work Just you don't get the wrong idea: The reason why I'm weary of such things that I fear that inofficial material might get outdated at some point and information got split on different places. It wasn't to descredit your effort in making it

Well I maintained a similar work for VMware vSphere from ESXi 3 through ESXi 9, so I hope I have staying power. I never made it available to public domain because of potential copyright or trademark restrictions.
I made this available through Creative Commons so that others, if they choose to do so, could contribute expand or even completely redo what I've done so far.

Thanks,
JB