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Learning Proxmox VE

You're reading from   Learning Proxmox VE Unleash the power of Proxmox VE by setting up a dedicated virtual environment to serve both containers and virtual machines

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783981786
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hardware requirements and recommendations for Proxmox VE


Before starting installation activity, be sure your hardware at least meets PVE's minimum hardware requirements.

The official wiki provides recommended specifications for both evaluation and production scenarios (https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/requirements).

However, the For evaluation specifications are a bit vague and quite restrictive; they are intended for testing only. You'll find that following them will provide what one needs to become familiar with the installation process and the web-based administration interface. You may even try to run a single, minimal virtual machine and container. If your goals and objectives are more substantive, however, you're very likely to become frustrated very quickly with these specs.

The following is the configuration recommended by the Proxmox VE wiki page (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Installation#Minimum_requirements.2C_for_evaluation) for very basic testing of PVE (release 4.1):

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