Table Of ContentMastering Proxmox
Master Proxmox VE to effectively implement server
virtualization technology within your network
Wasim Ahmed
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mastering Proxmox
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Credits
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Wasim Ahmed Neha Bhatnagar
Reviewers Proofreaders
Rocco Alfonzetti Jr. Simran Bhogal
Alessio Bravi Amy Johnson
Oleg Butovich Linda Morris
Daniel Lench
Indexers
Razique Mahroua
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About the Author
Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the
IT world. He was introduced to computers in the year 1992 and never looked back.
Wasim has deep knowledge and understanding of network virtualization, big data
storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of an IT support and
cloud service provider company based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies
and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from
the experience he gained through learning and serving continually. Wasim strives on
finding the most effective solution at the most competitive price point. He hand-built
over a dozen enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and Ceph
storage system.
Wasim is notoriously known not to simply accept a technology based on its
description alone, but put them through rigorous tests to check their validity.
Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of
continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
I would like to thank all the staff at Proxmox for their support
and dedication to the hypervisor community. I would also like to
thank Packt Publishing for their vision of moving forward for this
one-of-a-kind book on Proxmox and their support throughout the
journey of making of this book.
About the Reviewers
Rocco Alfonzetti Jr. is an IT consultant for small businesses and has specialized
in Linux and open source solutions for the last 15 years. Currently, he works for
a software development company as an e-mail security expert. He lives in rural
Connecticut with his wife and three children, and in his spare time, he enjoys
beekeeping, raising chickens, and gardening.
Alessio Bravi has been playing with bits since he was five. He started programming
at the age of six and soon focused his attention towards network administration and
IT systems security in the best growing-up period of the Internet.
When he was 19, he founded IntSec.NET, and started working as CTO and Network
and Security Administrator for Italian Internet service providers (ISPs/W-ISPs) and
as an IT security consultant for many companies in Europe.
Alessio works only with Unix-like operating systems and is specialized in IT
security analysis, network engineering and administration, autonomous systems
BGP routing, IPv4 and IPv6 routing and switching, operating system virtualization,
and data center management.
His personal blog can be found at http://blog.bravi.org/, where he writes
some technical articles to share IT hints with the digital world. More technical
skills and personal details about Alessio can be found on his LinkedIn© profile
page at http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessiobravi.
Oleg Butovich is a freelance senior software developer with a passion for
virtualization technologies. He has over 15 years of experience in the industry.
He has worked on booking systems, trading platforms, laser image generators,
digital media systems, medical and life science imaging systems, automatic
inspection systems, and embedded systems.
Daniel Lench is a self-proclaimed "fixer of all things". He is drawn to challenges,
both physical and theoretical. His background includes acting as an artisan at a state
museum, a production manager at a high-volume cabinet shop, AutoCAD expert for
civil engineering firms and government agencies, and almost two decades of being
professionally involved in the IT industry. In 2008, the challenge was to keep files
in sync between multiple computers in real time. Since then he has been focused on
finding the best answer. The NoFolder Project is an open source, real-time, private
cloud-based backup, file synchronization, and collaboration service that is self hosted
and administered in small business and enterprise settings. NoFolder addressed
the policy and privacy concerns over using third-party services to store and share
data. The project is for those concerned about data, the collaboration with it, and
the preservation of it. The company maintains offices in the U.S. and the U.K. with
additional resources in Sweden, Austria, and South Africa. Daniel is the founder
as well as the CEO for NoFolder Ltd.
I would like to thank Rocco for introducing Proxmox to me. I would
also like to thank Heather for the wonderful adventure.
Razique Mahroua is a technical consultant on High Availability systems
as well as a technical writer. Currently involved in several open source projects,
such as OpenStack and KVM, he has written about various technical topics for
IBM and Amazon.
His experience ranges from cloud solutions, implementations (IaaS and PaaS),
and by-products such as data clustering to network High Availability and data
integrity. He currently assists several companies looking for best practices
around cloud solutions.
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To my dear wife, Brigitta, whose love, constant support, and unshakeable faith in me
has allowed me to do what I do best, while she took care of the rest.
–Wasim Ahmed
