Training course: Proxmox VE Clustering and Shared Storage
(formerly known as: "Proxmox VE Advanced" until April 2025)
This training course provides the technical skills to equip IT professionals with a solid understanding of deploying, managing, and integrating Proxmox VE nodes into a cluster and gaining the benefits of high availability and resource optimization for the VMs and containers.
Target Audience:
This training is aimed at IT professionals, system engineers, server administrators, and Proxmox partners who need to know how to deploy and manage Proxmox VE clusters.
Training content:
The training course consist of both theory and lab exercises to give participants a deep understanding, in addition to hands-on experience. Several modules and practical lab exercises will cover deployment, setup, and configuration:
• Architecture and components of a Proxmox VE cluster: Requirements, best practices.
• Exploring the Proxmox Cluster File System (pmxcfs) and Corosync.
• Cluster networking and redundancy, software-defined networking (SDN) and VLANs.
• Storage management with shared storage options.
• Deploying Ceph: Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Ceph RBD for guest virtual disk storage,
CephFS for clustered file storage, maintenance tasks, and best practices.
• Migration of guests between nodes and their limits.
• ZFS for asynchronous guest disk replication in a cluster.
• High availability (HA) for VMs and containers.
• Failure scenarios with exercises for HA and Ceph.
• Considerations for a minimal 2 node setup with an external tiebreaker (QDevice).
• Automate tasks using the Proxmox REST API or CLI tools
• Troubleshooting common issues
Outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will be well-prepared to confidently set up a Proxmox VE cluster following best practices. They will gain a solid understanding of how a Proxmox VE cluster operates and how careful planning can help reduce downtime.
They will also learn the differences in VMs and LXC containers, particularly in the context of (live) guest migration. When it comes to shared storage within a cluster, participants will explore the built-in options along with their respective advantages and disadvantages. They will be able to configure Proxmox VE and Ceph as a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) in line with bestpractices, and will develop a clear understanding of how the different components of Ceph interact.
Additionally, participants will grasp how high availability (HA) for guests functions and how to leverage its configuration options. They will also be able to utilize the SDN feature in a clustered environment to centrally manage VLANs and other networking elements.
Course Objective:
Equip IT professionals with a solid understanding of deploying, managing, and optimizing virtual environments using Proxmox VE in clustered deployments.
Requirements:
This course is aimed at participants who have completed the Proxmox VE Deployment and Management training. This course covers topics that are not included in the Proxmox VE Deployment and Management course.
Duration:
The training course lasts for 14 hours. The total duration can be divided between 2 or several days.
How:
All trainings are conducted live (or live virtual) by certified instructors from Proxmox Server Solutions or an authorized Proxmox training partner.
Training course: Proxmox VE Deployment and Management
(formerly known as: "Proxmox VE Installation and Administration" until April 2025)
This training course covers Proxmox VE core technical skills, and participants will learn to identify the steps and components to successfully create and manage virtual machines and Linux containers including networking, storage, security practices, and backup strategies useful for single server deployments.
Target Audience:
This training is aimed at IT professionals, system engineers, server administrators, and Proxmox partners who need to know how to deploy the Proxmox VE solution, or are responsible for managing virtualized data
center environments.
Training content:
The course provides a mix of theory and practical work, helping participants build competence and confidence in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting the Proxmox VE platform.
• Understanding the architecture of Proxmox VE with a focus on a single server deployment.
• Installing and setting up Proxmox VE: system requirements, installation, updates, and network configuration.
• Exploring the management interfaces (web GUI, CLI).
• Configuring and managing networks in Proxmox VE: Bridging and bonding network interfaces, VLANs, software-defined networking.
• Storage management: Storage options in Proxmox VE with a focus on single server deployments.
• Virtual guest management: Creating, managing, and understanding the various options and possibilities for VMs and Linux OS containers (LXC).
• Migration to Proxmox VE from other hypervisors (V2V) and bare-metal machines (P2V) and recommended post-migration steps.
• Backup and restore strategies: Backing up guests with the out-of-the-box backup functionality, exploring the integration with the Proxmox Backup Server, retention management, and restore possibilities.
• Authentication and Permissions: Users, groups, authentication realms, and permission schemes.
• Integrated firewall
• Troubleshooting common issues
Outcomes:
At the end of this course, participants will possess a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered, including the appropriate use of VMs and LXC containers. They will gain insight into the various storage options for a single node setup. Participants will be able to set up and configure the integrated firewall, plan a backup and restore strategy, and create user accounts with dedicated permissions. With an understanding of the underlying technologies, participants will be able to perform basic troubleshooting.
The course also covers the available options for migrating existing workloads to Proxmox VE and strategies for optimizing guests within the virtual environment.
Course Objective:
Equip IT professionals with a solid understanding of deploying, managing, and optimizing virtual environments using Proxmox VE for single server deployments.
Recommended for:
This course is aimed at participants who have basic knowledge of virtualization concepts.
Duration:
The training course lasts for 14 hours. The total duration can be divided between 2 or several days.
How:
All trainings are conducted live (or live virtual) by certified instructors from Proxmox Server Solutions or an authorized Proxmox training partner.