Proxmox Hypervisor

What Is It?

Proxmox delivers powerful, enterprise-grade solutions with full access to all functionality for everyone - highly reliable and secure. The software-defined and open platforms are easy to deploy, manage and budget for.

  • Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete open-source platform for enterprise virtualization. With the built-in web interface you can easily manage VMs and containers, software-defined storage and networking, high-availability clustering, and multiple out-of-the-box tools using a single solution.

  • Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. The open-source solution supports incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption.

  • Proxmox Mail Gateway is an open-source email security solution that protects your mail server against all email threats from the moment they emerge. The full featured mail proxy can be easily deployed between the firewall and your internal mail server in just a few minutes.

Official Resources

Website

Documentation

Life Cycle Support

Installation

Proxmox Virtual Environment

Note

Proxmox VE is a bare-metal installer, please be aware that the complete server is used and existing data on the selected disks will be removed.

  1. Download the Virtual Environment installation ISO

  2. Burn the ISO to a USB or CD/DVD

  3. Boot your machine from the USB or CD/DVD created in step 2

  4. Follow the installation process and configure your environment as needed.

Proxmox Backup Server

Note

Proxmox Backup Server is a bare-metal installer, please be aware that the complete server is used and existing data on the selected disks will be removed.

  1. Download the Backup Server installation ISO

  2. Burn the ISO to a USB or CD/DVD

  3. Boot your machine from the USB or CD/DVD created in step 2

  4. Follow the installation process and configure your environment as needed in the UI.

Proxmox Mail Gateway

Note

Proxmox Mail Gateway is a bare-metal installer, please be aware that the complete server is used and existing data on the selected disks will be removed.

  1. Download the Mail Server installation ISO

  2. Burn the ISO to a USB or CD/DVD

  3. Boot your machine from the USB or CD/DVD created in step 2

  4. Follow the installation process and configure your environment as needed in the UI.

Additional Resources

Proxmox documentation for subscription and no-subscription, as well as Ceph can be found at the Proxmox repositories page