Let's Install Proxmox 8.0!

[@KingsOfNerdonia]

Hot tip: If the Proxmox server is connected to the internet (because of system updates, it usually is), the more efficient way of getting ISOs onto the local storage is to paste the URL in to a form and download direct from the internet into the ISO folder. How to do? 8:57 - Copy the URL from ISO-file by right click on "download now"-link and select "copy link address" from the context menu, 9:39 - select "Download from URL" from the ISO images category, paste the URL you've copied before into the URL form and click on query, the system will create a file name, press download. The system will download the ISO file direct onto Proxmox without download to another computer and reuploading again. Very nice feature, I wish Unraid will it become one day too.

[@RespecWamen]

I've been using proxmox in my homelab and at work for a couple of years now, and I find this video to be extremely welcoming to new users. Great work Jeff!

[@mikehensley78]

Ventoy is a great ISO manager. I use it. Once you write ventoy to the USB stick you just copy/pasta your ISOs onto the USB drive where ever you want. It'll find your isos and put them into a nice list.

[@CraftComputing]

What's a Ventoy? 😜

[@abufinzio]

@@CraftComputinga very cool software 😁

[@mikehensley78]

@@CraftComputing Google it... you will like it.

[@mikehensley78]

I found it while trying to create a windows USB stick from a linux machine once. Make a ventoy drive, drop the ISOs on there. done. boot. profit.

[@tmaris]

Oh wow. Some people really do miss sarcasm

[@100PercentJake]

Proxmox with virtualized TrueNAS is exactly how my homelab is configured. Aside from TrueNAS I have VMs for PiHole, Unifi Controller, HomeBridge, HomeAssistant, and a random Windows VM because reasons.

[@CraftComputing]

| Random Windows VM | Gotta download those Linux ISOs somehow.

[@transatlant1c]

Yarrrrr

[@OsX86H3AvY]

I had TrueNAS Scale inside of Proxmox but I've been just using Ubuntu for samba and Plex for years now and kinda don't want to go to TrueNAS...maybe in the future I will with ZFS tho will see....and yea I had a Win Server 2022 Active Directory forest in my lab just with a few Win10 and a few Win11 VMs so that I could learn AD only to realize AD kinda sucks anyway....oooff

[@Codazoa]

I had to move my pihole, nginx proxy, and VPN to a separate low power device so when I messed with my proxmox server I would still have reverse proxy and DNS available

[@zeero4ever]

@@CraftComputing And use your tax software...

[@manicmarauder]

This is an awesome breakdown on the install, especially with the extra info on biso / cpu types / networking. Lots of videos will tell you to 'just pick this' but won't tell you *why*, and learning that is awesome.

[@marc3793]

I think a video on Proxmox passthrough would be great. Passing through GPUs, but also things like Intel QuickSync. And iGPU sharing.

[@FuzzyKaos]

lol its not that easy.

[@rahulchandra152]

GPU passthrough is easy, but Igpu passthrough is very dependent on how your motherboard is layed out. For example, Igpu passthrough is completely broken on 500 series intel

[@WMartinNI]

Pci and usb pass through is very easy, it's just handled from the hardware tab on the vm. You can even pass through individual hard drives rather than an entire pci controller. My nas is just a zfs volume in a vm (it was originally a bare metal server for everything that I migrated into a vm) and you can pass through individual disks from the command line, even from an hba

[@andrewf1283]

A video on passthrough would be great, as someone who's thinking about going to Proxmox it'd be really informative

[@gyulamasa6512]

@@WMartinNI Yes, but for example SMART is not passed through... ANd as I saw, you cannot start a SMART test in the Proxmox disk manager tab, only the results are shown (however I am also new to this so it is most likely, I did not find the way how to do it)

[@biggothkitty]

A standalone video on virtual networking would be a great addition. It's a huge hurdle for new users. It definitely was for me anyways.

[@tsimblist]

I had already upgraded my Proxmox cluster to 8.0, but I decided to watch this video to see if I had missed something. Sure enough, new CPU types. I have a VM with Windows Insider Preview running on the Canary Channel. It had recently stopped taking updates because the CPU was not supported. I had given up on it and shut it down. Tried what I learned from this video and my VM is supported again! Thanks Jeff!

[@AidenPryde3025]

Asmedia controller.

[@davidkamaunu7887]

I know. ASS-media controller

[@zeero4ever]

They are cheap. That's their thing 🙂

[@LA-MJ]

Pls explain the reaction

[@davidkamaunu7887]

@@LA-MJ ? What is to be explained?

[@AidenPryde3025]

@@LA-MJ Asmedia makes low quality controllers. My personal experience is they disconnect often in the external drive configuration. I had a motherboard from 2012 and it had two SATA controllers on it... an Intel and Asmedia controller. The Asmedia controller failed after 2 years, the Intel one works fine to this day.

[@cameronfrye5514]

Love your sense of humor, especially when covering deeper subjects.

[@TheInternalNet]

Long time subscriber. This is really exciting. Ive seen you grew in the past few years and I learn so much from you. Teaching more virtualization and other enterprise technologies is going to be amazing. Thank you.

[@travisaugustine7264]

I liked your explanation of why you would choose a specific CPU type. I have been choosing Host as my option for a long time, but I hadn't considered how that might affect things down the line when/if I need to migrate the VM to another machine down the road. Something to consider for sure.

[@MrSlm1982]

I don't watch your videos all the time... but when i do, i forget how much i appreciate your humor. Remembering why i subscribed in the first place.

[@RobFisherUK]

When discovering a new KZbin channel, you're not sure at first how well informed it is. Your explanation of CPU core, memory and disk space sharing convinced me this channel is the real deal: other videos gloss over this stuff. You're also packing the information densely: this is not wasting my time. My mental model of how this stuff works is getting more accurate rapidly. Thanks especially for the bridge explanation. I have a bare metal server with management interfaces on one VLAN and user facing stuff on another VLAN and subnet, and I'm going to want to replicate this when I make it virtual. You've got me started. But a video going over network setups in detail with examples would be welcome. If you've already made one I'll find it shortly!

[@tim3172]

13:45 TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It's for firmware-level encryption which is necessary for OS's like Windows 11. Tamper Protection Module isn't a thing. You might be thinking of a Chassis Intrusion Detector?

[@CraftComputing]

I was researching copyright and DMCA issues lately, so Tamper Protection Measure was on my mind :-D

[@MikelManitius]

For someone who is experienced in virtualization but new to Proxmox, this is truly an excellent video because of the level of detail that you go to. Thank you!

[@stuartwilson2277]

Thanks so much for the breakdown of each of the items in the VM creation wizard. You made it crystal clear as to what each of the setting means and represents. Well done and thanks so much. Love your content

[@pierreb4319]

If your homelab only consists of a single PC, you should simply use CPU type 'host'. The generic CPU type are only relevant if you plan on doing live migration of your VMs from one machine to another that is not 100% identical (as in the same CPU).

[@jttech44]

Glad you got that box all sorted out Jeff, it really does look great. Also, I've taken the Ventoy-pill for all my bootable iso needs. Really, really handy, and so far I haven't found anything it won't boot. I really wish proxmox would allow for at least initial DHCP, that way on a server with multiple nic's, it'd give you an available IP on the nic you have plugged in. That's bit me before. Also, it's me, I forgot the password I typed 5 seconds ago, can confirm, was boned. Very good, no BS tutorial though man. I really appreciate you making these. I don't necessarily need 100% of them, but man is it nice to have a quick reference if I need it. One small note I'd have is, while you can allocate more threads than you can simultaneously execute to a virtual machine, best practice is to not do that as there's a performance penalty of 10% or so with multithreaded workloads that exceed the number of threads available in the hypervisor. In practice, I've found this to be the case but usually just a few percent. If you do a 'deeper dive' video on this, it'd likely be good to touch on how to read the linux 0.01/0.10/1.0 load averages, the newbies always get confused with that. p.s. don't sleep on the turnkey LXC's, they're very, very handy in the homelab for spinning something up to test it out, and turnkeylinux does at least a quasi good job with their config defaults, so even if you want to use something exotic to run SAMBA or whatever, it's nice to have them as a reference.

[@mikehensley78]

+1 for Ventoy. I love it.

[@FrontLineNerd]

I’ve been running a 9 osd Ceph cluster on a 4 node PM cluster for about 3 months now. (3 nodes in HA). So far ceph clustering has been extremely awesome. I very much see why they’re including it now. After 3 months I can’t recommend it enough. Stores VMs and lxc’s beautifully. Very fast and reliable. And the ceph fs holds ISO’s. It’s the best setup I’ve ever run however it’s requiring me to upgrade switches. Ceph clusters are very chatty and I’m seeing dropped frames in my Win vm through my gigabit switch. Great explanation in this video btw. Clear and easy to understand.

[@EreniK19]

Man I love your content, I would like to see you do a video about Private networking for Isolated Homelabs. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wish you nothing but the best.

[@3k3k3]

I'm gonna watch this, build a server. Play around with it. Try to use it, lose confidence. And go back to something else.. As always, thank you Jeff. Looking forward to watching this.

[@GirlOnAQuest]

lol!

[@Fail.Better]

I relate to this a little too much, haha.

[@buchanpeter]

Build one with 2 small cheap graphics cards. Make 2 VM's and use parsec to access them. I have a physical computer that has Parsec installed. I use a Raspberry Pi 3 hooked up to my tv in my bedroom. Where i can connect with parsec and game with a xbox controller.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Not with this attitude, you won't

[@fridjonvilhjalmsson2883]

A company I worked for for about seventeen years did have a monstrous system of physical servers when I started there as a developer but over time this was condensed down to just a few racks by VM Ware. I did use the free version of VM Ware both at work and in my home lab and it was really great firing up a virtual just for some specific task and then shut them down and create another if necessary. Since I retired, I haven't had much call for a VM but it is still a fascinating technology. Until today, I hadn't heard of Proxmox and it sounds very interesting particularly after watching this video which I found extremely well put together and presented. Now I've got the bug again so I think I've found some use for the box under my desk.

[@colegstewart]

I don't "like" videos often but this one earned it. This is exactly how to cover this topic. Perfect level of info provided, especially re: the divvying of resources bit.

[@threepe0]

20 seconds in... I'm curious why people choose to run Truenas on top of Proxmox. It seems like SCALE on its own would be a cleaner solution, no? Why mess with all the pass-through stuff on your NAS? I'll figure it out, researching now, but it would really help to get some quick background on the philosophy of the project early on.

[@blu37hund3r]

Thanks so much for describing most of those individual settings in detail! I've searched a lot but this seems to be the only video i found doing so for Proxmox 8 and actually describing WHY to choose which setting.

[@gsahookah599]

This is an exceptionally well written and presented tutorial. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. I clicked the 'bell' so as not to miss your future Proxmox VM content. Well done mate!

[@CraftComputing]

Thanks!

[@JohnCarter04]

Jeff, thank you so much for renewing this whole concept. I've been struggling getting Proxmox+TrueNAS+docker containers setup in a way that's easy to create and maintain. Would love to see how to setup an all in one video touching on how to setup Docker on Proxmox, or if LXC containers could be used instead of, since that's the default.

[@biveksingh8297]

+1

[@MRPtech]

I've been running proxmox home server for about a year now and still ... i learned new things watching this video Thank you !

[@barneybarney3982]

Kinda expected some basic stuff that should be done after proxmox install, like adding non subscription repo. Personally i go for "host" on cpu selection and had no issues migrating vms to other machines, but it was only linux vms, that probably would run fine on Pentium 4 instruction set...

[@Darkk6969]

Linux and FreeBSD will have no issues switching different CPUs. Windows, well...being Windows it don't want to play. 😁

[@JarkkoTuovinen-jo4ei]

Heres my request / idea for a future video tutorial. I would like to see a video about attaching 2 or 3 sets of keyboards, mice and monitors to a single pc such as Intel Nuc 12. So that 2 or 3 family members could share one computer. Would this be possible without dedicated graphics card for each user or not? The main operating system could be proxmos or a gnu/linux distribution such as linux mint. For a split for two users I am guessing kvm/qemu on split screen would work - But whats the method suggested by you?

[@philharris9631]

You absolute darling! You actually cleared up the misconception that *I* was under about how cores and threads are handled by VMs ... I had presumed that you had to fit all your VMs into the total number of threads that your CPU has available... That's it - I now love you forever! 😀

[@dawolfsdenyo]

Thank you for addressing the bad info out there from others on the ability to overprovision CPU and RAM resources. It is a pet peeve of mine when I watch these, or read guides, and they tell you to never overprovision. Overprovisioning has been a thing for the industry since virtually (see what I did there) the start. In nearly all cases, not every VM is going to use 100% of the given resources. To not overprovision is to just waste resources.

[@michaelkane6797]

I really appreciate the way you present this stuff! Looking forward to seeing this one grow.

[@WMartinNI]

Great video as usual. For anyone wondering - once you have set up the server you actually can use it with a dhcp lease by editing the network interface config file directly, at least I've done it in version 7

[@LA-MJ]

If you have one server in the cluster, maybe

[@WMartinNI]

@@LA-MJ I've never run more than once server to be fair. I assign static ips at my dhcp server so it is a static ip for all intents and purposes, it's just set up as dhcp on the server itself.

[@brianfritz575]

Glad you enjoyed the beer. A little inebriation is a wonderful thing! I learned some thing from your overview of Proxmox as well.

[@NoorElBahrain]

I have recently installed proxmox on a minipc to start my home lab journey. I would love to see how to interact with VMs the best way possible without using the browser noVNC client. Great video. Thank a lot.

[@rrschmid]

well done, exactly what I was looking for... as an old VCP certified tech this was exactly what I needed to line up my knowledge with where proxmox was putting it all.

[@GapYouIn2]

Love the vibes and sarcasm. I am a VCP looking at proxmox for the first time after running vmware for 15 years. I tried KVM back around 2012 and ran it successfully for about 5 years before moving those machines to vmware as well. With all the stuff going on with broadcom and my lack of faith in hyper-v, i figured it was time to broaden the horizons again. Glad to see that much of this is very similar to vmware. Looking forward to the cluster video (once i find it). thanks for posting!

[@itssoaztek4592]

I am new to Proxmox. Fantastic tutorial. Excellent from start to finish. You really deserved that beer!

[@rarekid740]

Jeff I've been watching your videos for a while following hardware and cool projects, I have just built my own home server and this video was exactly what I needed, thank you!

[@AthanasiosRorris]

I have lot of experience with VMware and Windows server products, and I always wanted to learn about Proxmox and xcp-ng but I didn't want to spend time to learn it from scratch and analyze all technologies. Most of the people in my work circle just go either cloud, local with MS or VMware or hybrid, so I didn't have someone to explain me proxmox in 15-20 minutes. My next questions are how to create a RAID array consisting from multiple disks with different size (ZFS I guess?), backup and replication in Proxmox and a tutorial about the promising xcp-ng. Keep up the good work.

[@edb75001]

Do a release where you use Terraform to create and manage your VMs. Definitely makes things easier, after the initial setup (which can be difficult for beginners).

[@transatlant1c]

Has the proxmox provider for terraform improved? Last I checked it was a bit barren, but interested to check it out again

[@gipilot1]

Glad you enjoyed the beer! Easily one of my top three beers in my best of the best list. Sadly the Original Brewer that made the beer has passed away and what is out there is all that is left. Fun fact the barrel used was a "William Larue Weller" that previously held maple syrup, if you know, you know. To make it more interesting, I believe you have an OG bottle unbarrel aged to show how good the base product is. Cheers!

[@iddeusuario]

It would be nice to see a Virtualized TrueNas Environment and in your opinion the best configuration for it.

[@bjackman16502]

I've mainly stuck with ESXi (Vmware Hypervisor) on my home network; but would like to see a tutorial on virtualizing OPNSense in Proxmox.

[@livemadseason]

I tried many different solutions while setting up Home Assistant, and I can only say: "this is the way". Proxmox is the best, but Debian, not ubuntu would be my first choice for VM running docker etc. On top of everything, this video adds much more details I was aware of, highly recommended, thanks!

[@sherrilltechnology]

Hello Jeff I am about to make the change from VMware ESXI 6.7 to ProxMox 8.1, I am waiting on hard drives and my second CPU cooler to arrive for my Dell R710 (I know it is an old server) I am going to virtualize my Firewall which I am using Sophos Home Firewall, I am probably going to have a video on how to setup the entire system, but mainly the WAN and LAN passthrough for the Sophos Firewall as I will have 2 of them running in HA, I love your content and thanks so much for the explanation of all of the hard drive interface types!

[@businessdragoon7164]

New on Proxmox, and one of the things I struggle hard is on GPU passthrough, love the content

[@omgacat520]

Great video. I followed along and dealt with issues as they arose, but this was a great resource to reference when setting up for the first time as a complete beginner. Thanks for the help!

[@BeansEnjoyer911]

Okay we have the server, running proxmox, running Ubuntu in vm. But I don’t think we covered actually doing anything yet with the storage drives? Like how you would set up a network share, if you’d use samba, how you’d make it secure. This would all be great!

[@danielmunoz4383]

Great Video! Would love to get some instruction on how to add an NFS share to Proxmox server. I have a large NAS device that currently contains all of my isos for an esx host. Considering what's going on with VMWare I am looking for an alternative hypervisor. Thanks again for the tutorial!

[@JobberE69]

Just when I was about to start my journey with Proxmox... you drop this amazing vid. Really useful, I'll come back once I'm battleling with the server, can't wait for the upcoming parts!

[@PunisherSA5000]

So many posts, blogs and articles dis the Virtualisation of a Software NAS. You are the first one I have seen to give it creds were everyone else mocks it for stability etc are all VM NAS builds as sound as applied to baremetal builds??? Have you run into any issues with TRUENAS? Maybe a video on possible problems and recover solutions and any differences between OMV, TRUENAS, UNRAID, XPENOLOGY etc :)

[@fitlikeaglove7396]

A really cool Proxmox build I'm looking forward to building soon is mini PC based. The pricing on the Mini PC is very affordable You can find AMD 8 core with 32GB of ram with 1TB SSD for ~400 Buy 3 of them and you have a super power efficient 24c/48t cluster for sub 1500. The only way I know of linking everything would be via NIC/networking. But would be really cool to find a way to to do it via 40G USB / Thunderbolt.

[@chromerims]

Wendell at Level1 hinted that he had been working on releasing a video about this. Specifically, go to minute 6:24 of his July 27, 2023 video covering the Minisforum's UM790 Pro mini pc. Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.

[@chromerims]

Wendell's video "What the NUC Kind of Cluster is This???" was released today, Aug. 31.

[@lukemillermakes]

Love it! As you deep dive into virtualization, I'd love to see some exploration of virtual routing--especially vlans for isolated IoT networks and the like. Keep up the great work.

[@alzeNL]

Very enjoyable - i struggled with getting proxmox to boot from USB, sorted that using belina etcher, which worked great. I was able to follow your video clearly and easily, i've never used proxmox, and I'm really glad to add to my knowledge. Love the beer as well - you make it sound delicious !!!

[@haydenmaines5905]

This video could not have come at a better time! I am literally setting up the Proxmox installation today (day 3 of video upload) and shopping around for an HBA for vortualizing TrueNAS

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

Thank you. You go a little fast for my old brain, but the first couple minutes helped me clear up a couple of things about proxmox. For the first time I'm moving away from bare metal systems.

[@paul454]

I know I'm a bit late, but hopefully you can cover my issue. I have a 3-node Proxmox cluster. One of my nodes is running a Home Assistant VM. I am using USB passthrough for my Zigbee/Matter dongle. I would like to be able to set things up so that dongle is shared across all nodes... So when the machine gets migrated by HA (or manually) the dongle is still present in the VM. I *think* this can be done but I've never done it before.

[@ADB-zf5zr]

@CraftComputing What I want to do is to create an image of my existing Linux OS install, then install Proxmox, and then mount that existing Linux OS install within Proxmox. How do I do this.? . Later on, I also want to try out this with my Main/Gaming PC running W10, with the hope that this gives me some nice flexibility, plus being able to replace the (shockingly awful and inefficient) RAID array on this machine with ZFS, but that is on no-way the priority, first of all I want to get my Proxmox Server up and running with an existing Linux OS install.

[@ArjenSingels]

I've been told that one should never virtualize trueNAS/nas software. But i wasn't given a good explanation of why. Do you agree with that statement? Or Is it simply a case of keeping a few things in mind when doing NAS virtualization?

[@DarthDweeb]

I am really looking forward to all your upcoming proxmox videos. I have been using your proxmox for a couple of years now, but I'm always eager to learn more.

[@DarkDretter]

This vid just covers more information then my teachers at my IT-school gave me in 4 weeks! All the information about the CPU-Types and cores were super helpful to understand, how virtualisation works. Since i am good with networking, it was a nice refresh for me. But what i am curious about is, what do u think about building a virtuall firewall on this proxmox server to build up a secure vm-network around the vms?

[@xGame4Fun]

Hey, super nice video. Might you share which case you're using for the home server in the video?

[@chromerims]

Incredibly excellent video 👍 I have watched a lot of your videos. They're all clear and crisp but this one especially hits the enunciations and inflections brightly and vividly. Great content. Can't wait for your future, related virtualization videos. Big thank you. Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

[@tomstaunton1804]

Been a networking hobbyist for a long time, but this is the video that finally inspired me to move my server from win 11 to proxmox. I may be a photographer by day, but a hypervisor and some vms *could* speed up my workloads, and that's all that matters lol

[@fanaticdavid]

Thank you for this tutorial, Jeff. I finally took my first steps into Proxmox about a month ago after buying a second Intel NUC. Now I have both of them running in a Proxmox cluster. I was running Ubuntu Server bare metal previously. Anyways, I really appreciated the breakdown of the different options during the VM creation wizard. It was nice to have both confirmation on the things I did right and suggestions on the things to do differently next time.

[@bopal93]

Loved the explanation of Linux bridge. Great video. Would love to see "storage" in proxmox and lxc / vms, like cifs disk volumes etc

[@joshhardin666]

whatever it is, linode isn't paying you enough for that EPIC funny sponsor spot :D

[@montecorbit8280]

At 3:59 Future expansion.... I saw the build of this server.... You mentioned you want the X16 slot reserved for a 10Gbs network card in the future. I seem to remember there is some sort of breakout cable that would plug into an x16 slot and allow you to bifurcate slot. It may not work in this particular build, but could you done that and kept your 10Gbs future plus any other bifurcations you need? Wood proxmox allow that?? It might be an idea to keep simmering in the back of your mind when you have a larger chassis to work with.... Now I will go finish your video.... Hope your day is excellent!!

[@zeero4ever]

bifuration has to be supported by your firmware, and most consumer boards do not

[@montecorbit8280]

@@zeero4ever I was seeing it mention what a little bit all in regards to consumer boards....it things to be more of a dream or newer boards than older ones.

[@harlequin516_yt]

This is the best and most in depth tutorial I have seen so far! Would love if you could cover masquerading and DHCP for my Virtual Bridge, as I could not get it working despite following so many examples online and the offical documentation.

[@pju28]

Hi, could you please make a tutorial how to make an SSL for Proxmox so there is no "error" message on HTTPS?

[@physicsguy666]

This was super helpful and informative... but I noticed that my system time in proxmox is wrong... It looks like Chrony doesn't have any sources? I'm pretty new to debian, does anyone have suggestions?...

[@bdhaliwal24]

I’ve been running Proxmox for a year and I learned something new. Thanks Jeff

[@alvydasjokubauskas2587]

To install proxmox, what I did: reset bios to default. Than There press the "e" key to edit a boot entry (e.g., the Graphical one, used advanced debug one) Use the arrow keys to navigate to the line that starts with linux, move to the right where the quiet parameter is, delete that (so we maybe get a bit more info) and add "nomodeset". Also remove "quiet" not silent parameter. Than press ctrl+D if it gets stuck try again ctrl+D to continue. I used ext4 instead of zfs because I was using only 1 nvme, and my nvme is not industrial one.

[@BeansEnjoyer911]

Hey! Was going to buy a couple pint glasses off your store front but the shipping was going to be over 20 dollars for 20 dollars for of pint glasses. (Central US) Is there any plans for a free shipping event or maybe a “spend X for free shipping” option? Seems a bit sad to burn so much just on USPS

[@noelvaillant7626]

Debian allows encrypted lvm out of the box. Proxmox installer offers no help with encryption. However, proxmox has documentation on how to install it on top of normal debian bookworm. So it should be possible to create a promox install where all your storage devices are encrypted luks device. I d love to see a video on that.

[@MsWielkim]

Great! Please continiue your wonderfull work. Can't wait for installation of TrueNas and Windows

[@onedjscream]

Dude great video! If you don't mind a quick comment... please stop switching away from the screen so much. I think for new users it would be much better if we could look around the UI to get use to it while you talk. Thanks for the conent!

[@ytQrash]

I appreciate the creation of this video series, but I need a Part 0 video, one that explains, not what a VM is, but why it/they is/are needed. Why can't a home server run applications and host storage directly within the server OS? Why are VMs better? A Part 0 on "server basics" would make the rest of the series understandable to a greater audience instead of being a step-by-step series of instructions to follow.

[@JamesGreen-gv4yn]

Very nice overview! I would like to mention the ability to set the CPU to 'host', which will automatically set the client to use the same CPU the host has. As for migrating between hosts, I like to keep all my clustered host systems installed on identical hardware, so this works great for me.

I believe the option "host" equivalent to "cpu-core-passthrough"

[@sparksnmagic8695]

While your knowledge is miles deep, my knowledge is about a quarter inch, LOL. I have Truenas Scale up and running. All internal computers see and can use it. I have tried and failed to use Tailscale to see my disk array from outside. I can login to Truenas GUI from outside. So, here is the question... Should I start over with Proxmox first as a base and then Ubuntu VM and then Truenas as a VM Then load Tailscale into Ubuntu?

[@MaxVoltageMiningCrypto]

Always with the appropriate amount of dry humor! Love it. I don't know what I don't know, but I do have a ProxMox server with 4 VMs. Still learning, so I look forward to seeing your future videos especially your content around VLAN techniques and strategies.

[@mediis]

The problem I had with this kind of setup is what happens when one of your pass through disks die? It's nearly impossible ( I couldn't find a way ) to link the failed TrueNas disk to the failed proxmox disk. Luckily for me it failed hard and I could hear which one was bad. But when I replaced the disk, nothing recognized the new disk. TrueNas was still seeing the oild disk. I had to wipe the whole thing and just turn the entire thing into a TrueNas box, and when the next disk failed, I was able to find which one rather easily.

[@zeero4ever]

If you pass through the whole controller card, you should be able to see all drive meta data (serial number, ...). Also SATA hot plug should work then. I think your described problem comes from passing through the single disks via the VM config file.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

He (and most tutorial) recommend to pass through the whole card, not the disks. That said he has sata activity leds so he can see what disk is not working. When you are writing a test file to the array you should see all drive activity leds blink or show activity. The dead or disconnected drive will not show activity. This is the true power of sata activity leds. If you pass through disks you are passing through THAT specific disk so if you remove it and replace it with a new one you have to remove the pass through and add a new one for the new drive. If you are passing through disks use the /dev/disk/by-id/xxxxxxx instead of the /dev/sdX so it's specific and the name contains the drive's serial number (so you can quickly see what pass through is the one for the "old " drive you just removed and have in your hands)

[@TheOirishhAmerican]

After realizing I can install proxmox on a dell micro for a docker container + ubuntu + scrypted and then run windows vm's separately I'm sold!

[@mika38006]

I'm sure someone has mentioned it but Ventoy is game changing for booting, just drop your images on your drive and go! You can still use it as your regular thumb drive :)

[@zanewebb1853]

My first foray with proxmox has been less than fun, I migrated from esxi, first few days were great then my truenas vm started doing some weird stuff, like randomly rebooting, seriously considering fgoing back to esxi

[@zanewebb1853]

I haven't gone back to esxi, I trashed the truenas VM,

[@Bauanga]

Thank you for the informative video! I would be interested to know how to virtualize OPNSence in Proxmox and create a WLAN bridge to connect my VMs/LXCs virtually to OPNSence. Also, a video on virtualizing TrueNas would be interesting, especially with the option to make the TrueNas managed storage available to my VMs/LXCs again. Thanks a lot for your great work!

[@MichaelBullutKE]

I mainly work with HP Proliant servers & configure either RAID 1 or 5 depending on the goals/needs of the project. I wanted to ask if there's any danger in using the entire hard disk capacity like in VMWare ESXi deployments when installing the Proxmox operating system? Or can I reserve one hard disk slot for the O.S. & use the rest (configured with RAID) for the installation & configuration of virtual machines?

[@daveb-bx1hh]

Fantastic Vid, any chance we will see you working on any of your home lab?

[@daveb-bx1hh]

OK - no bold or italicized text - missed the key word of question so I repleat: see you working ANSIBLE on any of your home lab?

[@DangoNetwork]

Good video. One correction: TPM= Trusted Platform Module. it does not protect tampering.

[@CraftComputing]

Should I pin a comment or add an asterisk?

[@DangoNetwork]

@@CraftComputing Add an asterisk is a better option IMO. People normally don't read comments. I know that's a bit more work.

[@zombie_pigdragon]

This is true, but I will point out that when using true antitamper mechanisms, they can use the TPM, even if that's not a "standard" use case for it.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@CraftComputing make a full blown apology video

[@zeero4ever]

@@marcogenovesi8570 A wild Steve appears...

[@yychummer]

This is one of the best tutorials of proxmox I have found, thanks.

[@colinbrewer9249]

The last 3:30 of this video was perfect. You need a beer review channel. The Proxmox stuff was good too. I may give it a whirl some day.

[@letlaka8812]

Hi guys, at work i have been tasked with setting up a lab environment for testing. the server uses a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7420 @ 2.13GHz, it's a very old server. I wanted to know which cpu type do i select when i create the VM? TIA.

[@aliglota]

Very informative video! I'd love to see a home NAS setup walkthrough in ProxMox, explaining different options and common doubts that arise during its configuration.

[@johtib]

Why not use the "host" CPU type, if you're not going to migrate your VMs?

[@Jasenz]

Your timing with this was spot on im just about to setup v8 on a test box

[@davidg5898]

Great "how to get up and running" tutorial. The only thing I'd add, since you showed the advanced options and mentioned ballooning, is that if you turn ballooning off for a resource then you *do* have to treat that resource like a doled out pie slice. It isn't a major issue for drive space -- you'll just get disk size warnings/errors when trying to create the virtual drives -- but can be a serious stability/resource problem with RAM. One example: you have 16GB of physical RAM and create 2 VMs that each use 8GB non-ballooning RAM. If you run them simultaneously, your system _will_ crash at some point. Because you neglected to leave any RAM for Proxmox itself (it needs a min of around 2GB to run stably). Ask me how I know. 😬 But, as you said, unless you have a situation where you need to guarantee a certain amount of RAM to a specific VM, it makes sense to just leave the RAM as ballooning and let Proxmox manage it.

[@tedelamater]

You mentioned private networking for isolated homelabs as a possible topic. I think it would be cool if you did, would like to learn about vlans in proxmox.