What you need for this book

This book is designed with a hands-on approach in mind. Therefore, access to a Proxmox cluster or having enough hardware to build a cluster will greatly enhance the value of this book. A minimum of two nodes will be sufficient to practice all the steps described herein.

You will also need to download Proxmox VE 3.4 ISO images from the official Proxmox site. To set up a FreeNAS storage system reader, you will also need to download the ISO image of the FreeNAS 9.3 stable release from the official FreeNAS site. We have used PuTTY to log in to a Proxmox node through SSH, so, a copy of the PuTTY program is also needed. You can use any other SSH programs of your choice. All three of these files can be downloaded from the following links:

To download Proxmox, visit http://proxmox.com/en/downloads/category/iso-images-pve.

To download FreeNAS, visit http://www.freenas.org/download-freenas-release.html.

To download Putty, visit http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html.