To effectively follow the course, it is recommended to have the following skills:
- Basic knowledge of virtualization (concepts such as hypervisor, VM, snapshots, etc.)
- Experience in Linux system administration (preferably Debian-based)
- Familiarity with TCP/IP networking, firewall management, and basic security concepts
- At least a basic understanding of Proxmox VE or other virtualization environments
- General knowledge of storage (RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, etc.)
This in-depth technical course is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills to manage virtualized infrastructure based on Proxmox VE at an advanced level, with a focus on storage, backup, high availability, security, and monitoring. Through theoretical lessons and numerous practical exercises, participants will learn to:
- Manage local and remote storage, leveraging ZFS for advanced features and integrating Ceph for distributed storage scenarios.
- Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies using snapshots, replication, restore, and Proxmox Backup Server.
- Design and manage high availability clusters, enabling live VM migration and load balancing.
- Apply best practices for strengthening security, configure firewalls and protections for VMs and containers.
- Monitor performance and logs with integrable tools like Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana, for full visibility into the infrastructure.
- Develop real-world use cases in academic and corporate environments, including DevOps environments, production service hosting, and HPC clusters.
The course is highly practical and hands-on, with sessions that guide participants from initial configuration to the simulation of failover scenarios.
Storage and Backup in Proxmox Storage Management
Local and remote storage
Using ZFS for advanced storage
Integration with Ceph for distributed storage
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Backup strategies in Proxmox Snapshot, Replication, and Restore
Configuration of Proxmox Backup Server
Cluster and High Availability
Introduction to Proxmox clusters
Creation and management of an HA (High Availability) cluster Live migration of VMs and load balancing
Security and Monitoring – Hardening and Security
Security best practices in virtualized environments
Firewall configuration and access protection VM and container isolation and protection
Monitoring Tools
Logging and resource monitoring
Integration with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana Performance analysis and troubleshooting
Use Cases and Applications in Academic and Business Environments
Virtualization for university IT labs Test and development environments for DevOps
Hosting of services and applications in production HPC clusters for distributed computing
Hands-on Exercises
Complete installation and configuration of a Proxmox environment
Creation and management of virtual machines and containers
Configuration of a Proxmox cluster with HA and distributed storage
Simulation of backup, restore, and failover management