The first 2-day course "Proxmox VE Deployment and Management" provides a mix of theory and practical work, helping participants build competence and confidence in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting the Proxmox VE platform:

1. Understanding the architecture of Proxmox VE with a focus on a single server deployment
2. Installing and setting up Proxmox VE: system requirements, installation, updates, and network configuration
3. Exploring the management interfaces (web GUI, CLI)
4. Configuring and managing networks in Proxmox VE: Bridging and bonding network interfaces, VLANs, software-defined networking
5. Storage management: Storage options in Proxmox VE with a focus on single server deployments
6. Virtual guest management: Creating, managing, and understanding the various options and possibilities for VMs and Linux OS containers (LXC)
7. Migration to Proxmox VE from other hypervisors (V2V) and bare-metal machines (P2V) and recommended post-migration steps
8. Backup and restore strategies: Backing up guests with the out-of-the-box backup functionality, exploring the integration with the Proxmox Backup Server, retention management, and restore possibilities
9. Authentication and Permissions: Users, groups, authentication realms, and permission schemes
10. Integrated firewall
11. Troubleshooting common issues

The second 2-day training course "Proxmox VE Clustering and Shared Storage" consists of both theory and lab exercises to give participants a deep understanding, in addition to hands-on experience.

Several modules and practical lab exercises will cover deployment, setup, and configuration:

1. Architecture and components of a Proxmox VE cluster: Requirements, best practices
2. Exploring the Proxmox Cluster File System (pmxcfs) and Corosync
3. Cluster networking and redundancy, software-defined networking (SDN) and VLANs
4. Storage management with shared storage options
5. Deploying Ceph: Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Ceph RBD for guest virtual disk storage, CephFS for clustered file storage, maintenance tasks, and best practices
6. Migration of guests between nodes
7. ZFS for asynchronous guest disk replication in a cluster
8. High availability (HA) for VMs and containers
9. Failure scenarios with exercises for HA and Ceph
10. Considerations for a minimal 2 node setup with an external tiebreaker (QDevice)
11. Automate tasks using the Proxmox REST API or CLI tools
12. Troubleshooting common issues

Howest is a Proxmox Authorized Training Partner and offers the official Proxmox certification courses.