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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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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

Network configuration file


We are now going to a look at how a Proxmox network configuration file works and how we can modify it to adapt to different networking environments. This configuration file is stored at /etc/network/interfaces. Network configuration can be modified both from the GUI and the CLI. Any changes made from the GUI are saved temporarily in /etc/network/interfaces.new. The changes get transferred to /etc/network/interface only after reboot. You can also directly edit the interfaces file at /etc/network/ and activate or deactivate components with #ifup <name> or #ifdown <name> without needing to reboot. All virtual bridges must be configured on all the Proxmox nodes in the cluster. If there is a lot of bridge configurations in the interface file, simply copy them to all nodes and modify only the physical interfaces on each node. The following screenshot is the GUI representation of the configuration file for node pmxvm01:

The following code is how the configuration...

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