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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from   Mastering Proxmox Build virtualized environments using the Proxmox VE hypervisor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397605
Length 494 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Preface 1. Understanding Proxmox VE and Advanced Installation 2. Creating a Cluster and Exploring the Proxmox GUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Proxmox under the Hood 4. Storage Systems 5. Installing and Configuring Ceph 6. KVM Virtual Machines 7. LXC Virtual Machines 8. Network of Virtual Networks 9. The Proxmox VE Firewall 10. Proxmox High Availability 11. Monitoring the Proxmox Cluster 12. Proxmox Production-Level Setup 13. Back Up and Restore Virtual Machines 14. Updating/Upgrading Proxmox 15. Proxmox Troubleshooting 16. Rescuing Proxmox

Virtual machine replication


Virtual machine replication is a brand new feature that has been added from the Proxmox VE 5.0 release. This is a very useful feature for a single-node Proxmox environment where VM disk images reside locally on the same computer node the VMs actually run from. With this option, VMs can be replicated to a different node in real time should the primary node go down for any number of reasons. In such a scenario, the second node with a replica of the VMs can be brought online, thus minimizing downtime significantly.

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It is very important to note here that this replication will only work when the VM disk image is stored on a local ZFS storage.

The storage must be attached to a Proxmox cluster using the ZFS storage plugin, as shown in the following screenshot:

The replication simply will not work when the disk image is on any other storage. Even if the disk image is stored on a ZFS storage with NFS share, replication will not work. In such a scenario, when trying to...

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