Lesson 1
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Introduction to Proxmox VE
Overview of Proxmox Virtual Environment and its capabilities.
What is Proxmox VE?
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers on a single platform.
Key Features
- KVM Virtualization - Full virtualization for any OS
- LXC Containers - Lightweight Linux containers
- Web UI - Complete management interface
- Clustering - Multi-node high availability
- Storage - ZFS, Ceph, NFS, iSCSI support
- Backup - Built-in backup and restore
Why Proxmox?
- Free and open-source (optional paid support)
- No license limits on features
- Enterprise-grade capabilities
- Active community
- REST API for automation