Virtualization

Proxmox supports several storage protocols suchs as NFS, iSCSI, LVM, etc. and the procedure to add a NFS storage to Proxmox requires only few settings. If a NAS device is available in your infrastructure, it can be easily used as storage by exporting an NFS share. Prepare the NFS share If you have a NAS...

Compared to VMware, to create a Proxmox cluster you don't need a dedicated appliance to centralize the management of resources such as CPU, RAM, storage and networking. The cluster is at the node level and can be managed by any node since it is a multimaster cluster (no master-slave nodes). To ensure a consistent configuration across all cluster...

The Ceph Storage Cluster is a feature available on the Proxmox platform, used to implement a software-defined storage solution. Ceph is an embedded feature in Proxmox and is completely free to use. Prerequisites Before starting the installation of Ceph Storage Cluster, you need to create a Proxmox cluster by adding the nodes required for your configuration.Three...

VMware vSphere ESXi iSCSI multipathing is a critical storage connectivity feature that provides redundancy, load balancing, and improved performance for virtual machine storage. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover the fundamentals, prerequisites, configuration steps, best practices, and troubleshooting methods for successfully implementing iSCSI multipathing in ESXi environments. What is iSCSI...

This course is designed for IT administrators who face the challenges of deploying and managing multiple physical servers and applications. The solution to these challenges is to leverage the Hyper-V and container capabilities in Windows Server 2025. In this comprehensive course, titled "Windows Server 2025 Virtualization and Hyper-V," participants will learn how...

Proxmox has released Proxmox VE Server 9 Beta just a few days ago now at the time of this writing. To go along with that release, they have also dropped Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 Beta. Like Proxmox 9 Beta, Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 Beta is chocked full of new features...

On July 15, 2025, VMware officially released the security advisory VMSA-2025-0013, VMSA-2025-0013: VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41236, CVE-2025-41237, CVE-2025-41238, CVE-2025-41239) Vulnerability Overview 1. CVE-2025-41236: VMXNET3 integer overflow vulnerability. Vulnerability description: There is an integer overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter in VMware...

vCenter Server is a software application designed to help you manage your vSphere infrastructure from a single, centralized interface. It serves as the main control center for managing ESXi hosts and their virtual machines. You can install vCenter Server on a compatible version of Windows or opt for the Linux-based...

The Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) is the Proxmox native solution designed to protect your workloads in case of failures. Similar to the Proxmox hypervisor, PBS is an open-source solution that doesn't require any license to operate. Install Proxmox Backup Server Obtain the Proxmox Backup Server ISO from the official Proxmox website. As a best practice, the server should...

The vCenter Server backup is a crucial operation in a vSphere infrastructure since the vCenter Server provides core features such as HA, DRS, vDS, vSAN, and it must be protected accordingly. To guarantee the recovery of the vSphere infrastructure functionality in case of a failure, the vCenter Server backup operation must be...