Proxmox Basics: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
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This video demonstrates a basic walkthrough of Proxmox. This includes the main dashboard, containers, VMs, backups, scripting, downloading ISOs, and installing the OS. I also talk about how Proxmox allocates resources and how to best configure your deployments using the resources you have. God rest tteck. Below is the link to the repo forked from his work: https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/ 0:00 Intro 1:53 Dashboard overview 3:00 Going over LXCs 6:35 What is Proxmox? 8:10 Templates (images) 9:43 VMs 11:15 Volumes 11:42 Resource allocation 15:28 Backing up to TrueNAS 18:52 Creating an LXC using the button 20:07 Proxmox VE Helper Scripts 22:25 Creating an LXC with a script 27:25 Changing resources for an LXC 30:00 Creating templates 30:45 Removing an LXC 31:08 Other scripts 34:15 Proxmox VE specific scripts 36:10 Creating custom VMs 39:30 Creating a Proxmox VM 41:50 Installing Proxmox 43:50 Outro Want to say thank you? https://buymeacoffee.com/serversathome
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