ProxCP Admin - KVM

KVM ISOs

Before creating a new KVM service, you must add one or more KVM ISOs to ProxCP.

To add a KVM ISO, click ADMIN > Manage KVM ISOs. In the Friendly Name field, enter a name for the ISO such as "CentOS 7". In the volume ID field, enter the volume ID of the ISO file. The format for this is {storage_name}:iso/{file_name}. For example, if the KVM ISO was stored in the "local-lvm" Proxmox storage, the volume ID would be local-lvm:iso/centos.iso.

ProxCP assumes that all KVM ISOs are available on all added Proxmox nodes.

KVM Templates

There is documentation regarding KVM templates here: ProxCP KVM Templates

On the admin side of things, you need to tell ProxCP about the templates on the ADMIN > Manage KVM Templates page.

• Friendly Name: the friendly name to identify this template, such as "CentOS 7"
• VMID: the VMID of the template in Proxmox
• Template Type: whether the template is Linux or Windows. This setting determines if cloud-init is used or not among other VPS configuration options
• Node: which node(s) is/are this template available on? Unlike ISOs and LXC templates, KVM templates do not need to be available on all Proxmox nodes

KVM Creation

ADMIN > Manage KVM

• User ID: which user should this service be assigned to? You can find user IDs on the ADMIN > Manage Users page
• Billing Account ID: what is the billing ID of this server? Generally, this should be synced with a service/account/billing ID from a billing platform like Hostbill, WHMCS, or Blesta but it can be any unique number
• Pool ID: name of the Proxmox pool that should be created and used for this VPS. This can be in any format, but we recommend "client_{client_id}_{service_id}" such as "client_104_2"
• Node: which Proxmox node should this VPS be placed on?
• KVM Hostname: the arbitrary hostname of this VPS
• Operating System Installation Type: whether to use an ISO file or a template for installation
• Operating System: choose an ISO file or KVM template to use
• Operating System Type: the KVM ISO/template type
• KVM NIC Driver: which NIC driver to use for the VPS
• KVM Storage Driver: which storage driver to use for the VPS
• IPv4: the IPv4 address assigned to this VPS
• IPv4 Gateway: the IPv4 gateway that should be used
• IPv4 Netmask: the IPv4 netmask that should be used
• KVM CPU Cores: how many CPU cores should this VPS have?
• KVM CPU Type: which CPU type should this VPS use?
• KVM RAM: how much RAM should this VPS have?
• KVM Storage Location: where should the virtual disk for this VPS be located?
• KVM Storage Size: how big should the virtual disk for this VPS be?
• KVM Bandwidth Limit: how much bandwidth should this VPS get each month?