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Project owners
Bjrn Pehrson
Sven Jonsson
Amos Nungu
Project coach
Hans Eriksson
Team members
Anand Kannan
Biniam Goshu Mekonnen
Boris Ristov
Christina Sidiropoulou
Ekaterina Garbaruk
Manxing Du
Shabnam Sadat Jalalinia
Contact
anandk@kth.se
biniamgm@kth.se
ristov@kth.se
csid@kth.se
garbaruk@kth.se
manxing@kth.se
ssja@kth.se
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Version history
Version
1.2
1.1
Release date
12/28/2010
12/27/2010
1.0
11/19/2010
Changes
Document is reviewed
The document was revised, details
about main features of Proxmox
and the virtual machines in the
CareNet network were added
First version of the document was
created
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Author(s)
Boris Ristov
Anand Kannan
Shabnam Sadat Jalalinia
Anand Kannan
Shabnam Sadat Jalalinia
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Table of contents
1.
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1.
1.2.
Scope of document.................................................................................................................. 4
1.3.
2.
Installation ....................................................................................................................................... 4
3.
4.
3.1.
Configuration ........................................................................................................................... 5
3.2.
Network ................................................................................................................................... 6
4.2.
5.
6.
7.
References ....................................................................................................................................... 8
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1. Introduction
Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is an open-source virtualization platform which is used
for running virtual machines. It has backup, restore and live migration as the most important
features.
1.1.
Purpose of document
The purpose of this document is to give information on how to use the Proxmox virtualization
platform for running virtual machines.
1.2.
Scope of document
This document mainly covers the Proxmox virtual environment in the CareNet network.
1.3.
Audience of document
This document is aimed at the CareNet technical team that is responsible for the network
management.
2. Installation
The complete operating system (Debian Lenny 64), Backup/Restore tools, Proxmox VE Kernel with
OpenVZ and KVM support, and web based management tools are installed through Proxmox VE
installation and the hard drive is partitioned with LVM2.
Here are the steps to install the Proxmox VE:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
3. Virtual Machines
In order to create virtual machines go to VM Manager Virtual Machines Create. There
you will see the following options where the offered and default values of them are given in front of
each item:
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3.1.
Configuration
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3.2.
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Network
We use the bridged networking mode in our Proxmox server. The model is e1000 and the bridge is
vmbr0.
Under Ethernet Devices configure eth0 to vmbr0. In the Domain server we bridge tap0 and eth0
interfaces to br0 and in others it is eth0 bridging.
Network Type: Virtual Network (vnet)
IP Address: IP address which has to be assigned to the VM
DNS domain: carenet-se.se
First DNS Server: 192.16.126.66
Second DNS Server: 192.16.124.50
The backup procedure in Proxmox is done using the VZDump utility (more information can be found
in the [ISP-005] Backup Configurations document).
In order to restore a VM the .tar file should be copied to where we want to restore the VM.
VZRestore is used to restore OpenVZ containers and to restore KVM machines qmrestore is used.
4.2.
Live migration
Live migration of virtual machines in Proxmox migrates from one physical machine to another and
there should be at least two Proxmox VE servers. [2]
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6. Video Tutorials
Video tutorial on Proxmox VE installation [3]:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_installation_(Video)
Here you can find a list of all the video tutorials related to Proxmox VE [4]:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Category:Video_Tutorials
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7. References
[1] Proxmox Wiki. (11/28/2010). Installation. [Online]. Viewed 12/28/2010. Available:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Installation
[2] Proxmox Wiki. (09/12/2010). Backup Restore Live Migration. [Online]. Viewed 12/28/2010.
Available: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_-_Restore_-_Live_Migration
[3] Proxmox Wiki. (11/12/2008). Proxmox VE installation (Video). [Online]. Viewed 12/28/2010.
Available: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_installation_(Video)
[4] Proxmox Wiki. (11/13/2008). Video tutorials. [Online]. Viewed 12/28/2010. Available:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Category:Video_Tutorials
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