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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from   Mastering Proxmox Master Proxmox VE to effectively implement server virtualization technology within your network

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980826
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Dive into the Virtual World with Proxmox FREE CHAPTER 2. Proxmox Under the Hood 3. Shared Storages with Proxmox 4. A Virtual Machine for a Virtual World 5. Network of Virtual Networks 6. Proxmox HA – Zero Downtime 7. High Availability Storage for High Availability Cluster 8. Proxmox Production Level Setup 9. Proxmox Troubleshooting 10. Putting It All Together Index

Chapter 3. Shared Storages with Proxmox

In simple terms, shared storage is a medium to store data for simultaneous access by multiple devices or nodes in a network. As server and desktop virtualizations become the norm, shared storage today is much more critical for a virtual environment.

In Chapter 1, Dive into the Virtual World with Proxmox, we set up our cluster with NFS file sharing using FreeNAS or any other operating system you may have chosen. Although a Proxmox cluster can fully function with Direct Attached Storage (DAS) or a local storage system in the same Proxmox node, shared storage system has many benefits in a production environment, such as increased manageability, seamless storage expansion, and redundancy just to name a few. In this chapter, we are going to look at the following topics:

  • Difference between local and shared storage
  • Virtual disk images supported by Proxmox
  • Storage types supported by Proxmox
  • Commercial and noncommercial shared storage options
  • FreeNAS...
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