Deepest, highly detailed, right to the point, amazingly explained, best video I have ever seen about proxmox. Liked it and subscribed. You deserve much more subs definitely. Keep it up, I am so looking forward to see more of your content.
Just getting into Proxmox for a home lab, and picked up more information from your one video than watching many others on KZclip. Great content and explained very clear why you made certain decisions. Also answered some questions I had that other content creators skipped over. Thank you very much.
Amazing tutorial. I had followed another one last year for an old, low end PC and gave up on it because of how crappy it was and how confusing Proxmox looked. But this video described every little step. It doesn't just tell you what to do, but WHY. Proxmox now seems fun and simple! This is how a tut should be like! Instant subscribe.
Very good Proxmox info! Coming from ESXi + vSphere and Citrix Hypervisor + XenCenter at work, I'm eager to try Proxmox for my next homelab changes. I did some testing with XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra based on a recommendation from Tom at LTS, which seemed good for managing many hosts, but I felt it wasn't the right fit for my lab. Proxmox seems like a better option. Thanks for the info.
New subscriber here. This is the first video I see from you. I must say your explanation and understanding of the topic is second to none! You deserve way more subs! Mad respect.
Like everyone else says, probably the most detailed guide straight to the point. Great guide, tutorial and general information to learn from. Thanks! Subscribed too.
I bought my first server this past year or so. I chose Open Media Vault as my first server OS because it was simple to start with. But now I'm seeing how much more use I'll get on my server by installing OMV as a VM in Proxmox and still be able to use all that available power for other things which is totally cool. A different KZclipr made a 20 part tutorial on Proxmox but I learned way more on this single video then in that entire 20 part playlist so great job on the video for sure. I feel like I have a good grasp on the basic concepts now and I'm gonna take the plunge. This is going to be super fun. Thanks again!
For Hardware, i have to say i´m extremely happy with my proxmox system running on an old consumer grade laptop. Sounds weird on first sight, but has some major advantages imho. 1. They are dirt cheap, and i mean dirt cheap. 2. Power Consumption is really really low (my system runs at 14W) 3. Integrated UPS, which is a Pro-feature :-) -> also you can limit the SOC to say like 60% to preserve the battery simply by using TLP and configure it once and then forget it. So no more corrupted DBs or anything. Of course there are also a ton of disadvantages, thats for sure. But for my usecase they really don´t matter that much. IMHO, for a small HomeSystem with low performance demands, it´s really a good choice! And if the Laptops dies, who cares, you got snapshots and are back in business in no time.
great first overview - I love proxmox so thanks for spreading the word! Are you planning to do an updated look at PBS? Looks good from your first look vid but would be good to get a bit more in depth info before I take the plunge on setting it up.
Just discovered your channel. I have a very specific set of ProxMox questions in regards to having Unraid as a VM or container. I’d be happy to submit the topic as a video idea so you can get some mileage from it if that helps haha.
Love the in depth explanations you provide. Is it possible to install MacOS in this environment choosing "other" as the system type and using a standard MacOS iso?
I believe its possible to install macOS, but I haven't tried. I don't believe apple provides a iso image, and only a DMG and APP image is available. I think some changes to the bootloader would also be required similar to the ones used for a hackintosh. I may try setting this up in the future.
I like how you communicate. Keep up the good work, very informative. I just wish there was a way to get the video downloaded without being a KZclip premier member.... :)
Hello Thanks for the video, i understand a lot of things better now. I am new to proxmox and have a couple of noob questions. 1.i am having issues adding an external drive to proxmox. Every time i successfully add one, It disconnects after a system reboot and doesnt re-mount automatically. I always have to remount manually every time. 2. I installed truenas vm, and plex via lxc container but cant access my usb storage even when its mounted in proxmos. Please help.
Just installed Proxmox 7.1 in a Samsung T3 external SSD, new to Proxmox. Used 1 1TB internal NVME disk as ZFS for the storage, and got a Win11 running on it. Now i want to backup just the windows disk (added 1 for Windows, 1 for games). But can only backup to Local, the External SSD which is small. Can i backup to the ZFS disk, or do i need to add another storage? And as what type? For in the future: I still got a 2TB NVMe build in, which is running my Manjaro currently, could i setup this disk for backup And usage of VMs (after i emptied it), or should i add another External HDD just for backups?
If I don't need clustering, HA or anything like that, I have two 500GB SSDs I want to use. 2nd will be for VM's and storage for ISOs where as the main would be be for proxmox, opnsense, piehole nothing to large. What is best practice for storage for proxmox, which type like ext4, xfs. Im not sure ZFS is where I want to go. And later, if I choose say 100GB for proxmox, can split up or use the remaining space for the other thing I've listed here.
I’m a fan of ZFS and would likely put the drives in one zfs pool and use that. That would have it so there is only one pool to manage. But without zfs I’d probably go ext4, but xfs will be basically the same for the uses here. LVM will also work. For most uses the file system will have no effect on usage. If you go with ext4, xfs, or zfs then there isn’t a fixed amount of storage for the host and VMs are thin provisioned so they only take the space they need on disk. Lvm is better if you want full allocation as it will have a designated space for the os that can’t be shared with the vms. I like to go with thin provisioning as it’s more flexible about vm layout and saves disk spaces but fixed provisioning guarantees the disk won’t run out of space and will have slightly better performance.
I installed Proxmox on a 128GB SSD, and the Disks section shows /dev/sda1 BIOS boot 1.03 MB, /dev/sda2 EFI 536.87 MB, and /dev/sda3 LVM 127.50 GB... but when I click on local in the top left server view, it shows max size is 31 GB, and local-lvm shows max size is 69.24 GB. That doesn't add up to 128 GB. Where's the missing space? Furthermore, Disks/LVM shows only 88% of space is assigned to LVs and 15.84 GB is free. How do I claim the free space?
Greate video ! just sub to ur channel keep up the good work man :D could you please tell me how to get zotac gtx 680 4gb non-uefi bios to pass through gpu and install Monterey on that vm ? i have sabertooth x79, 3930k cpu sandy bridge and gtx 680. im new to proxmox and vm in general and not sure what to use just to get monterey and other os x versions to work without having to worry about compatibility issue all the time while trying to install them like in hackintosh with opencore and all that hassle when one make one mistake and the installer doesnt even start and have to troubleshoot everything all day and every time something break time to find the problem :(((
Do you know if we can migrate LXC containers live in a cluster yet? I have been sticking to VMs for this reason for years. Also seems nothing was mentioned about the qemu guest agent?
I believe that you should use LxD for migration and Nomad and Consul for container orchestration. Prometheus to monitor kubernetes swarm and host independently.
Can you make a tutorial on how to install MacOS on Linux using ProxMox , there’s someone online that talks about it, but he talks a lot but never fully answers questions. Thanks.
Just came upon your video, I have an old Dell 2900, I was thinking of using an SSD to have the OS separate from the 8 swappable drive, span SSD 120 GB or so be enough for a boot disk?
My workplace have two cpu, i7 (8 cores and 16 threads) and xeon 4 cores 8 threads (I forgot the type), and I have pc workstation lenovo st250 (which have Intel xeon), but what I see i7 have more cores than xeon, so should I keep using Intel xeon or swap it with i7?
I’d probably go with the i7 as it seems to be much faster here. But from my experience ram is a limiting factor normally before cpu power so make sure you have enough ram too.
Hi, @ElectronicsWizardry I need solution for backup Porxmox host, what is your opinion, of course without other node(cluster)? is there some other solution?
Pbs only backups the vms and containers, not any of the host configuration or a image. Let me look into a way to do image backup of the Proxmox host. I’d also suggest keeping the data drives and boot drives separate if possible. Then pbs can backup the data drive and another program can make a image of the boot drive
@ElectronicsWizardry Thank you for your fast response. So it can backup just only main host (plan to bkp on USB drive) and do fast restore without reconfiguration in case of disaster? (also want to be sure when I play with Porxmox that I can restore fast and not do all over again) I tested Veeam Linux Agent but didn't go well...(even found some bugs) I tried to make a clone of a disk with CloneZila but unfortunately not able to restore it.
I’d probably use pbs to backup Proxmox. It works well and allows for fast incremental backups. I’d install pbs on the host in a single node but you can also run pbs in a vm. Unfortunately there aren’t any other good backup options for Proxmox like veeam, and normal Linux backup software like borg isn’t recommended for Proxmox as it won’t lock the vm images.
@ElectronicsWizardry but do let us know why the slow 3 claps, seems like you noticed something went wrong there :D Also, are those fans running at the end or some static? Because I couldn't hear anything during the video, that must be some good noise canceling you're using. Great video!
Am i supposed to be able to READ something on your screen?? Because even with the largest display around, i would not be able to. THANKS to your bad stage setup. PLEASE!!! Stop doing tutorials if you flunked 'screen presentations 101'. no really!!
Deepest, highly detailed, right to the point, amazingly explained, best video I have ever seen about proxmox. Liked it and subscribed. You deserve much more subs definitely. Keep it up, I am so looking forward to see more of your content.
Just getting into Proxmox for a home lab, and picked up more information from your one video than watching many others on KZclip. Great content and explained very clear why you made certain decisions. Also answered some questions I had that other content creators skipped over. Thank you very much.
Amazing tutorial. I had followed another one last year for an old, low end PC and gave up on it because of how crappy it was and how confusing Proxmox looked.
But this video described every little step. It doesn't just tell you what to do, but WHY. Proxmox now seems fun and simple!
This is how a tut should be like! Instant subscribe.
Very good Proxmox info! Coming from ESXi + vSphere and Citrix Hypervisor + XenCenter at work, I'm eager to try Proxmox for my next homelab changes. I did some testing with XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra based on a recommendation from Tom at LTS, which seemed good for managing many hosts, but I felt it wasn't the right fit for my lab. Proxmox seems like a better option. Thanks for the info.
I could tell right away that this was going to be the most useful tutorial for Proxmox. Thank you for the passion
New subscriber here. This is the first video I see from you. I must say your explanation and understanding of the topic is second to none! You deserve way more subs! Mad respect.
Like everyone else says, probably the most detailed guide straight to the point. Great guide, tutorial and general information to learn from. Thanks! Subscribed too.
I bought my first server this past year or so. I chose Open Media Vault as my first server OS because it was simple to start with. But now I'm seeing how much more use I'll get on my server by installing OMV as a VM in Proxmox and still be able to use all that available power for other things which is totally cool. A different KZclipr made a 20 part tutorial on Proxmox but I learned way more on this single video then in that entire 20 part playlist so great job on the video for sure. I feel like I have a good grasp on the basic concepts now and I'm gonna take the plunge. This is going to be super fun. Thanks again!
amazing tutorial, thank you. much better even than longer alternatives out there.
Wow, pure gold here. Learned a bunch, fine-tuned my windows VM. Just subscribed. Looking forward to more VMs/containers/Proxmox
By far the best Proxmox guide I've seen so far. So many guys leave too many blanks just to get a video under 20 minutes. Thank you.
Thank you so much for such an awesome knowledge sharing session. Kudos to your spirit...! More power to you. 🙌
For Hardware, i have to say i´m extremely happy with my proxmox system running on an old consumer grade laptop. Sounds weird on first sight, but has some major advantages imho.
1. They are dirt cheap, and i mean dirt cheap.
2. Power Consumption is really really low (my system runs at 14W)
3. Integrated UPS, which is a Pro-feature :-) -> also you can limit the SOC to say like 60% to preserve the battery simply by using TLP and configure it once and then forget it. So no more corrupted DBs or anything.
Of course there are also a ton of disadvantages, thats for sure. But for my usecase they really don´t matter that much.
IMHO, for a small HomeSystem with low performance demands, it´s really a good choice! And if the Laptops dies, who cares, you got snapshots and are back in business in no time.
Great video! Love the high detail on what everything is/does.
I learned a lot , very concise walk through . Thanks 🙏
Stood up my first ProxMox server today using this guide. Made things so straightforward, many thanks 👌
great first overview - I love proxmox so thanks for spreading the word!
Are you planning to do an updated look at PBS? Looks good from your first look vid but would be good to get a bit more in depth info before I take the plunge on setting it up.
@ElectronicsWizardry cool, thanks!
Yea I’m working on a updated pbs video. It should be out in the next few weeks.
Just discovered your channel. I have a very specific set of ProxMox questions in regards to having Unraid as a VM or container. I’d be happy to submit the topic as a video idea so you can get some mileage from it if that helps haha.
Sure let me know what your questions are. I typically have used usb passthrough when creating a unraid vm as it wants to be booted from a usb stick.
Love the in depth explanations you provide. Is it possible to install MacOS in this environment choosing "other" as the system type and using a standard MacOS iso?
I believe its possible to install macOS, but I haven't tried. I don't believe apple provides a iso image, and only a DMG and APP image is available. I think some changes to the bootloader would also be required similar to the ones used for a hackintosh. I may try setting this up in the future.
I like how you communicate. Keep up the good work, very informative. I just wish there was a way to get the video downloaded without being a KZclip premier member.... :)
This is how you call a proper Tutorial and Guide, i just found your channel and i just subscribed.
This video has been incredibly helpful, thank you very much!
Thank you Dude, excellent instructions for a complete proxmox novice like me :-)
very nice videos. Would be interesting to show how to virtualize a macOS system
Awesome video.... great explanation of features and reasons that you choose
I learn a lot...Very and informative and helpful. Thanks mate
very clear and useful! subscribed
Hello Thanks for the video, i understand a lot of things better now. I am new to proxmox and have a couple of noob questions.
1.i am having issues adding an external drive to proxmox. Every time i successfully add one, It disconnects after a system reboot and doesnt re-mount automatically. I always have to remount manually every time.
2. I installed truenas vm, and plex via lxc container but cant access my usb storage even when its mounted in proxmos.
Please help.
First time i got it to work in 3 tries. Great information
Learned a lot here - thanks!!
For a newbie and an oldie like myself, this is an excellent video. Thank you!..Lady D🤘
well done .. waiting for upcoming videos explaining cluster and HA
I am new subscriber , i learned a lot from your videos and you can make a video about migrating VM from Proxmox to VMWare ESXi. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic video, tyvm for your hard work.
7 months later..., still one of the best proxmox intros on yt #thx
Thank you soo much for clear explanation!
Just installed Proxmox 7.1 in a Samsung T3 external SSD, new to Proxmox.
Used 1 1TB internal NVME disk as ZFS for the storage, and got a Win11 running on it.
Now i want to backup just the windows disk (added 1 for Windows, 1 for games).
But can only backup to Local, the External SSD which is small.
Can i backup to the ZFS disk, or do i need to add another storage? And as what type?
For in the future:
I still got a 2TB NVMe build in, which is running my Manjaro currently, could i setup this disk for backup And usage of VMs (after i emptied it), or should i add another External HDD just for backups?
If I don't need clustering, HA or anything like that, I have two 500GB SSDs I want to use.
2nd will be for VM's and storage for ISOs where as the main would be be for proxmox, opnsense, piehole nothing to large.
What is best practice for storage for proxmox, which type like ext4, xfs. Im not sure ZFS is where I want to go. And later, if I choose say 100GB for proxmox, can split up or use the remaining space for the other thing I've listed here.
I’m a fan of ZFS and would likely put the drives in one zfs pool and use that. That would have it so there is only one pool to manage. But without zfs I’d probably go ext4, but xfs will be basically the same for the uses here. LVM will also work. For most uses the file system will have no effect on usage.
If you go with ext4, xfs, or zfs then there isn’t a fixed amount of storage for the host and VMs are thin provisioned so they only take the space they need on disk. Lvm is better if you want full allocation as it will have a designated space for the os that can’t be shared with the vms. I like to go with thin provisioning as it’s more flexible about vm layout and saves disk spaces but fixed provisioning guarantees the disk won’t run out of space and will have slightly better performance.
Thanks, dude. This is great info... New sub.
I installed Proxmox on a 128GB SSD, and the Disks section shows /dev/sda1 BIOS boot 1.03 MB, /dev/sda2 EFI 536.87 MB, and /dev/sda3 LVM 127.50 GB... but when I click on local in the top left server view, it shows max size is 31 GB, and local-lvm shows max size is 69.24 GB. That doesn't add up to 128 GB. Where's the missing space?
Furthermore, Disks/LVM shows only 88% of space is assigned to LVs and 15.84 GB is free. How do I claim the free space?
Greate video ! just sub to ur channel keep up the good work man :D
could you please tell me how to get zotac gtx 680 4gb non-uefi bios to pass through gpu and install Monterey on that vm ?
i have sabertooth x79, 3930k cpu sandy bridge and gtx 680.
im new to proxmox and vm in general and not sure what to use just to get monterey and other os x versions to work without having to worry about compatibility issue all the time while trying to install them like in hackintosh with opencore and all that hassle when one make one mistake and the installer doesnt even start and have to troubleshoot everything all day and every time something break time to find the problem :(((
you have a new subscriber! super nice stuff men!
Do you know if we can migrate LXC containers live in a cluster yet? I have been sticking to VMs for this reason for years. Also seems nothing was mentioned about the qemu guest agent?
I believe that you should use LxD for migration and Nomad and Consul for container orchestration. Prometheus to monitor kubernetes swarm and host independently.
LXC containers don’t support live migration yet, only when there shutdown. Looks like I missed the guest agent. That’s for bringing that up.
Can you make a tutorial on how to install MacOS on Linux using ProxMox , there’s someone online that talks about it, but he talks a lot but never fully answers questions. Thanks.
what about docker container or proxmox container ? quite confused
Good stuff !!!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing
Just came upon your video, I have an old Dell 2900, I was thinking of using an SSD to have the OS separate from the 8 swappable drive, span SSD 120 GB or so be enough for a boot disk?
@ElectronicsWizardry thank you so much I’ll see how I go about it, trying to get a homelab going
Depends on the os and programs you need but 120gB is typically more than enough for a boot drive. Most of my boot drives have less than 64gb used
Good video for Proxmox beginners
Surya Maurya WNice tutorialch is best depends but the easiest to learn is soft in my opinion. Ableton is also easy to learn though and also very
My workplace have two cpu, i7 (8 cores and 16 threads) and xeon 4 cores 8 threads (I forgot the type), and I have pc workstation lenovo st250 (which have Intel xeon), but what I see i7 have more cores than xeon, so should I keep using Intel xeon or swap it with i7?
I’d probably go with the i7 as it seems to be much faster here. But from my experience ram is a limiting factor normally before cpu power so make sure you have enough ram too.
Great video!
Interesting to see people from Rivendell into computers too
Thank you for the Proxmox help Bill Hader!
Can you show how to config turnkey fileserver container. Thank you for sharing
Yea I’ll make a video going over how to setup a turnkey server. Give a week or two to make the video.
The Windows 10 install showed NO sound icon on the task bar. How do you get the sound driver(s) installed?
Great video! Thanks from Argentina!
Hi, good proxmox guide
Hi,
@ElectronicsWizardry I need solution for backup Porxmox host, what is your opinion, of course without other node(cluster)?
is there some other solution?
Pbs only backups the vms and containers, not any of the host configuration or a image. Let me look into a way to do image backup of the Proxmox host. I’d also suggest keeping the data drives and boot drives separate if possible. Then pbs can backup the data drive and another program can make a image of the boot drive
@ElectronicsWizardry Thank you for your fast response.
So it can backup just only main host (plan to bkp on USB drive) and do fast restore without reconfiguration in case of disaster?
(also want to be sure when I play with Porxmox that I can restore fast and not do all over again)
I tested Veeam Linux Agent but didn't go well...(even found some bugs) I tried to make a clone of a disk with CloneZila but unfortunately not able to restore it.
I’d probably use pbs to backup Proxmox. It works well and allows for fast incremental backups. I’d install pbs on the host in a single node but you can also run pbs in a vm. Unfortunately there aren’t any other good backup options for Proxmox like veeam, and normal Linux backup software like borg isn’t recommended for Proxmox as it won’t lock the vm images.
good job
Proxmox n00b here. Thanks for this mate.
You should make tf2 videos again
No login screen.. Only white page is loaded..
Is this in the webui? Id try doing a update and see if that helps, otherwise do a reinstall.
what happened at 1:03:31?
I kept the part before that I normally cut out. The claps are for syncing the audio from the camera and the screen recording.
@ElectronicsWizardry but do let us know why the slow 3 claps, seems like you noticed something went wrong there :D Also, are those fans running at the end or some static? Because I couldn't hear anything during the video, that must be some good noise canceling you're using. Great video!
@ElectronicsWizardry it was a very informative video. I've been using proxmox for a while now but was still able to learn a few new things.
Oops missed that in editing. Will try to remove it.
Am i supposed to be able to READ something on your screen?? Because even with the largest display around, i would not be able to. THANKS to your bad stage setup. PLEASE!!! Stop doing tutorials if you flunked 'screen presentations 101'. no really!!
This video has been incredibly helpful, thank you very much!