Difference between revisions of "Proxmox Configuration"

Revision as of 18:30, 11 December 2018

Required Proxmox Configuration

ProxCP requires Proxmox VE 5.2 or above

Proxmox clusters are not supported at this time
Ensure BIOS options are enabled to support KVM/QEMU/hardware virtualization
If you have more than 1 Proxmox node, it is expected that you have a shared storage location for LXC templates and KVM ISO files (such as NFS)
- ProxCP assumes that all LXC templates and KVM ISO files are available on all Proxmox nodes

Example NFS storage for LXC templates and KVM ISOs

If you want to enable VPS backups in ProxCP, ensure the "Max Backups" setting for the storage location in Proxmox is set correctly
If you want to enable per-VPS firewall management in ProxCP, ensure the "Firewall" option is enabled in Proxmox under Datacenter > Firewall > Options tab
- Global input policy and output policy should be ACCEPT

Recommended Proxmox Configuration

ProxCP requires Proxmox login credentials to be saved. It is highly recommended to create a new user and to not use the root user.
- This new user should use the "Proxmox VE authentication server" (pve) realm
- Once created, your new pve user should have the PVEAdmin role

Example PVE user with PVEAdmin role

If you have multiple Proxmox nodes and have backups enabled in ProxCP...
- Proxmox VMIDs need to be unique across your infrastructure. One way to do this is to assign VMID ranges to each Proxmox node by creating a small, fake VPS with the beginning of the VMID range.
  - Example: you have 3 Proxmox nodes (node1, node2, node3)
  - You assign a VMID range to each node as follows: node1 1000 - 2999, node2 3000 - 4999, node3 5000 - 6999
  - To enforce these ranges in Proxmox, node1 would have a small, fake VPS with VMID 1000, node2 would have the same thing with VMID 3000, and node3 would have the same thing with VMID 5000
  - This works because Proxmox determines the next VMID by incrementing the largest present VMID by 1
- This is required because Proxmox backups are saved and named according to VMID only

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 ** ProxCP assumes that all LXC templates and KVM ISO files are available on all Proxmox nodes
 [[File:Proxmox nfs.png|thumb|Example NFS storage for LXC templates and KVM ISOs]]
+* If you want to enable VPS backups in ProxCP, ensure the "Max Backups" setting for the storage location in Proxmox is set correctly
+* If you want to enable per-VPS firewall management in ProxCP, ensure the "Firewall" option is enabled in Proxmox under Datacenter > Firewall > Options tab
+** Global input policy and output policy should be ACCEPT
 == Recommended Proxmox Configuration ==
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+* ProxCP requires Proxmox login credentials to be saved. '''It is highly recommended to create a new user and to not use the root user'''.
+** This new user should use the "Proxmox VE authentication server" (pve) realm
+** Once created, your new pve user should have the PVEAdmin role
+[[File:Proxmox pveuser.png|thumb|Example PVE user with PVEAdmin role]]
+* If you have multiple Proxmox nodes and have backups enabled in ProxCP...
+** Proxmox VMIDs need to be unique across your infrastructure. One way to do this is to assign VMID ranges to each Proxmox node by creating a small, fake VPS with the beginning of the VMID range.
+*** Example: you have 3 Proxmox nodes (node1, node2, node3)
+*** You assign a VMID range to each node as follows: node1 1000 - 2999, node2 3000 - 4999, node3 5000 - 6999
+*** To enforce these ranges in Proxmox, node1 would have a small, fake VPS with VMID 1000, node2 would have the same thing with VMID 3000, and node3 would have the same thing with VMID 5000
+*** This works because Proxmox determines the next VMID by incrementing the largest present VMID by 1
+** This is required because Proxmox backups are saved and named according to VMID '''only'''