Proxmox Virtual Environment Essential Training
2h 35mBeginner2025-07-21
Authors
Scott Simpson
Creating Technology Courses as a Senior Staff Author at LinkedIn
Course details
Proxmox VE is an open-source virtualization platform for running and managing virtual machines and containers. Its convenient web interface allows extensive control over guests, and it supports many useful features like high availability, software-defined networking, backups, and more. In this course, independent content creator Scott Simpson guides you through what you can do with this versatile platform. Go over installation and setup, then dive into creating virtual machines and containers. Learn how to manage guests via the web UI or the CLI, as well as how to expand guest storage, map a directory to share files, connect to a guest via SSH or RDP, and much more. Plus, explore effective ways to manage networking and high availability. This course prepares you to work efficiently in a Proxmox virtual environment.
Skills covered
Proxmox VEVirtualizationEssential TrainingNetwork and System AdministrationOpen Source
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Using Proxmox VE
- 02 - What is Proxmox VE
- 03 - What you should know
1. Set Up Proxmox VE
- 04 - Plan a Proxmox VE deployment
- 05 - Install Proxmox VE
- 06 - Web UI overview
- 07 - Maintain the host
- 08 - Add local storage
2. Create Virtual Machines and Containers
- 09 - Guest resource planning and settings
- 10 - Create a Linux guest
- 11 - Install Linux in a guest
- 12 - Create a Windows guest
- 13 - Install Windows in a guest
- 14 - Create and manage Linux Containers
3. Guest Management
- 15 - Configure and use the QEMU guest agent
- 16 - Manage a guest in the web UI
- 17 - Manage guests via the CLI
- 18 - Expand guest storage
- 19 - Map a directory to share files
- 20 - Resource mapping and hardware passthrough
- 21 - Connect to a guest via SSH or RDP
- 22 - Snapshots
- 23 - Clones and templates
- 24 - Backups
4. Networking and High Availability
- 25 - Host network and SDN
- 26 - Create a private NAT network
- 27 - Create a cluster with more nodes
- 28 - Move a guest between nodes
- 29 - High availability
- 30 - Replication
- 31 - Remote and shared storage
- 32 - Hyper-converged storage with Ceph
- 33 - Additional topics
Conclusion
- 34 - Next steps