How to Install Proxmox VE with Screenshots

Proxmox VE is a complete open-source server virtualization management solution. It is based on KVM virtualization and container based virtualization and manages virtual machines, storage, virtualized networks, and HA Clustering.

The enterprise-class features and the intuitive web interface are designed to help you increase the use of your existing resources and reduce hardware cost and administrating time - in business as well as home use. You can easily virtualize even the most demanding Linux and Windows application workloads.

Install Proxmox VE

First download the iso image from the official website. Once the download is finished follow each step of this guide in order to get a successful installation on your server or computer. You can either make a bootable usb stick or burn the iso to a cd/dvd.

Remember that recommended hardware system requirements:

• Dual or Quad Socket Server (Quad/Six/Hexa Core CPUs')
• CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)
• Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard (for KVM Full Virtualization support)
• 8 GB RAM is good, more is better (grab as much as possible)
• Hardware RAID with batteries protected write cache (BBU) or flash protection
• Fast hard drives, best results with 15k rpm SAS, Raid10
• Two Gbit NIC (for bonding), additional NIC´s depending on the preferred storage technology and cluster setup
• Fencing hardware (only needed for HA)

Proxmox Virtual Environment

Select Install Proxmox VE and then press Enter.

Proxmox Booting

Wait a second until the End User License Agreement (EULA) page displayed.

Proxmox EULA

Now in the EULA page, you can read until bottom page, after that you can press I agree to the next step. In the next page, you will prompt to select target harddisk, I am using a VMware harddisk for the proxmox installation.

Proxmox Target Hardisk

You can click Options for make a change to your selected harddisk, but here I will use the entire harddisk for proxmox installation, then press Next.

Insert your Country, time zone, and keyboard layout, and then press Next.

Proxmox Location and Time Zone selection

In this page you must insert the password for the default root account and then confirm the password, also insert your email address, then press Next.

Proxmox Administration Password and Email Address

Insert Hostname for the proxmox machine, I use my subdomain pve.tuxcyber.com for this.

IP Address: 192.168.200.82  (my local network)

Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: 192.168.200.254 (same with DNS Server)

Press Next to the next step.

Proxmox Network Configuration

Wait a minute, installing proxmox on process.

Proxmox Installation Progress

Installation Successful!

Press Reboot to finish the installation, and reboot the machine.

Proxmox Installation Successful

Remove the cd/dvd and then press Enter.

Proxmox Reboot

Proxmox login screen will be displayed.

Proxmox Terminal Login

OK, you have been finished installation Proxmox VE 3.4 on your server or computer, here I will show you how to remote or access Proxmox administration page from client, here I use Windows client.

Because proxmox using a SSL, you must type https, no http. https://192.168.200.82:8006

Proxmox use 8006 for the port number, so add the port number after the IP address or domain.

If you have a domain/subdomain already pointed to the IP, you can use it, here I use my subdomain pve.tuxcyber.com so the full url is https://pve.tuxcyber.com:8006 and I use chrome for the browser.

You will warned because the ssl cert is invalid, press Advanced and then Processed to pve.tuxcyber.com (unsafe).

Proxmox Warning

The Administration login screen appears.

Insert root for Username, and the password you have set at the installation before. Then press Login.

Proxmox Web Login

Because I do not have a subscription, the warning appears, just press OK.

Proxmox Subscription

Finally, this is Proxmox Administration Page.

Proxmox Administration Page Conclusion

Installation of Proxmox is much like other Linux distribution, because it is based on Debian Linux. After this, you can create VM inside Proxmox machine, Container, and other feature of that. I use proxmox for the small service already, chat, snmp monitoring, ftp, etc.