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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Proxmox VE and Advanced Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Cluster and Exploring the Proxmox GUI 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

The Proxmox HA simulator


Although Proxmox HA has become far easier to configure and manage, it is still a complex topic to grasp. With the use of software-based watchdogs, it is entirely possible to configure, test, and learn Proxmox HA in a virtualized environment before implementing it in a production cluster. There is also a simulator for Proxmox HA that we can use to see HA in action without setting up any clusters. The simulator allows us to see the HA configuration in action and see how the states change at different stages.

Configuring the Proxmox HA simulator

The Proxmox HA simulator is not shipped with the distribution and needs to be manually installed. Along with the simulator package, we also need xorg and xuath because the simulator requires X11 redirection, which is also known as X11 forwarding. We can use the following commands to install the packages:

# apt-get install pve-ha-simulator# apt-get install xorg# apt-get install xauth

We can access the simulator from both Linux and...

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