The course 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 course objective is to equip IT professionals with a solid understanding of deploying, managing, and optimizing virtual environments using Proxmox VE for single server deployments.

At the end of this course, participants will possess a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered, including the appropriate use of VMs and LXC containers. They will gain insight into the various storage options for a single node setup.

Participants will be able to set up and configure the integrated firewall, plan a backup and restore strategy, and create user accounts with dedicated permissions.

With an understanding of the underlying technologies, participants will be able to perform basic troubleshooting. The course also covers the available options for migrating existing workloads to Proxmox VE and strategies for optimizing guests within the virtual environment.

This training course is recommended for and aimed at IT professionals, system engineers, server administrators, and Proxmox partners who need to know how to deploy the Proxmox VE solution, or are responsible for managing virtualized data center environments.

Contact us if you have any questions about this training course, or if you are not sure if this is for you.