Proxmox VE for Production Operators

Part I

Foundations

Virtualisation, KVM/QEMU, LXC, hardware, architecture.

7 lessons

Part II

Production Planning

RPO/RTO, hardware, reference architectures, capacity planning.

8 lessons

Part III

Installation & Baseline

Installer, repositories, post-install hardening.

10 lessons

Part IV

Networking

Bonds, VLANs, SDN zones/VNets, fabrics, traffic separation.

10 lessons

Part V

Storage Fundamentals

Block vs file vs object, IOPS, RAID ≠ backup.

8 lessons

Part VI

ZFS

Pools, vdevs, ARC, ZIL, scrubs, resilver, production patterns.

8 lessons

Part VII

Shared Storage

NFS, iSCSI, multipath, SAN trade-offs.

9 lessons

Part VIII

Ceph

RADOS, CRUSH, MON/MGR/OSD, PGs, failure & recovery.

11 lessons

Part IX

Virtual Machines

KVM/QEMU, CPU, memory, disks, Cloud-Init, passthrough.

14 lessons

Part X

LXC Containers

Namespaces, cgroups, the security boundary, bind mounts, device passthrough, nesting, recovery.

11 lessons

Part XI

Clustering

Corosync, pmxcfs, quorum, QDevice.

8 lessons

Part XII

High Availability

CRM/LRM, fencing, watchdog, HA rules, prerequisites, CRS load balancing (PVE 9.2).

9 lessons

Part XIII

Proxmox Backup Server

Chunk store, dedup, encryption, namespaces, restore practice.

13 lessons

Part XIV

Disaster Recovery

RPO/RTO modelling, dependency mapping, DR runbooks, rebuilding the platform, protecting PBS.

9 lessons

Part XV

Security & Hardening

RBAC, TFA, firewall, secrets, anti-patterns.

12 lessons

Part XVI

Monitoring

Native metrics, external integrations, alerting, SLOs.

10 lessons

Part XVII

Performance Engineering

CPU, memory, storage IOPS, "the VM is slow" debugging.

10 lessons

Part XVIII

Maintenance & Lifecycle

Patching, rolling maintenance, major upgrades.

10 lessons

Part XIX

Troubleshooting

Methodology, real incident walk-throughs.

10 lessons

Part XX

CLI & Automation

qm, pct, pvesh, REST API, idempotency, tokens.

13 lessons

Part XXI

Migration to Proxmox

VMware/Hyper-V/KVM import paths, Windows drivers.

9 lessons

Part XXII

Operating as a Business Service

Inventory, change mgmt, runbooks, lifecycle checks.

10 lessons

Part XXIII

Home Lab

Single-node and 2-node home labs, VLANs and isolation, GPU passthrough, self-hosted apps, and home-lab backup.

8 lessons

Part XXIV

Professional Development

From operator to engineer: design reviews, runbook writing, incident leadership, mentoring, and career planning.

8 lessons

Part XXV

Proxmox Datacenter Manager

Managing several PVE clusters from one place: what PDM is and is not, installation, the remote and trust model, cross-cluster views, migration between clusters, and its maturity.

6 lessons

Part XXVI

Windows Guests

Windows on KVM has its own failure modes: VirtIO at install time, the balloon service, controller changes, sysprep, domain controllers, and activation.

6 lessons

Part XXVII

Multi-Cluster and Multi-Tenancy

When one cluster stops being enough: splitting, cross-cluster migration, shared standards, pools and network isolation for tenants.

6 lessons

Part XXVIII

Final Assessment

Production-readiness examination of an inherited Proxmox estate.

0 lessons