Don’t run Proxmox without these settings!

In this video, I will share my essential best practices and configuration settings for Proxmox, a powerful hypervisor platform. I'll walk you through crucial settings for any new Proxmox installation and tips for setting up new virtual machines, aiming to enhance the robustness, security, and performance of your setups. Join me as we delve into keeping your Proxmox server updated, configuring storage, and managing backups.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
02:25 Configure Updates
05:19 Notifications
06:36 Trusted TLS Certificates
12:19 Storage Options
14:39 Setup Backup Jobs
17:37 Enable PCI Passthrough
19:34 VM best-practices
23:46 VM templates

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[heldmar]

Hey Christian! First of all great channel, and thanks for such great videos! I am a Proxmox user for more than 8 years now, and most of the things you summarized in this video are really a must do. One thing I would recommend is setting up a VM in Proxmox, and connect primers to the Proxmox server and pass them through, if your VM is Linux for example, you can share those printers using CUPS and you will have the printers easily available for any device within your network without the need to even install them or configure it. I have done it, and I am able to print from Linux desktop, Windows desktop, Mac desktop, iPhones and iPads by simply using network printer, no driver hassle or ant other shannanigans! I hope this helps and also you can use this idea for your environment. Cheers!

[maxherman]

Please keep doing these videos! When I eventually switch from ESXi to Proxmox, these will be INVALUABLE!

[patrickdee]

I'll very likely watch all of your Proxmox videos this was higher quality content than I expected since I use them for many years

[aeonremnant]

Great to see more Proxmox videos. Ever since VMWare did VMware things Proxmox is now the obvious answer.

[Darkk]

Awesome video! Quick tip to keep things organized for VMs and CTs is make use of resource pools. I have few pools but most common are Production, non-production and testing. I use them to create different backup jobs so it don't waste alot of time backing up CTs/VMs when it only needs to be backed up few times a week or weekly. Plus when you create new CTs/VMs you can specify which pool to put it under.

[gaidin]

Great timing for the release of this video....I needed this checklist very much. Thank you!

[Merec]

Nice to have all those tips, I instantly added some of those to my proxmox environment.
One addition: I've read, that you should select the CPU type "host" instead of the default selected "x86-64-v2-AES" when creating a VM. It simply performs better.

[RyanMartin-cf]

Easily the best home server educator on the web. Keep up the great work, Love your Channel.

[mikeshorey]

Thanks for the video! This made me go back and visit my email notification settings that I had set up in a sort of hacky way since VE 7 something. Thought I'd give the notifications configuration via gui another shot based off this video and it worked so thanks! I'd much rather have the settings configured in the GUI than some manually hand-jammed postfix configs. Makes it much easier to remember what I did and how things are configured this way!

[Mandolorian]

Great video Christian and nice intro! thank you for all the tips.

[NicolajLock]

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your videos. You are excellent at explaining the topics you cover.

[RickSlone]

Thanks for the great video! Its always good to have solid standard practices for systems

[nickswebtsv]

Finally fixed my broken notifications for my backups. Thank you.

[kenpark]

Great info Christian. You've got a new subscriber. Thanks for the video!

[MarcNoel-xe]

That was an awesome video and you are an excellent communicator. I am new to Proxmox but your approach really simplified things for me. Many thanks!

[romayojr]

love your content, christian! thanks for another helpful video.

[ricardog]

Excellent as always. Didn't think certificates would be so easy 👍

[willrunfun]

Saved video to my Homelab Resources playlist. Good stuff.

[trailactor]

A great video as always. Speaking about backup options i have always been struggling on finding a good description on how to backup the host itself and not just the VMs. Pretty regularly some minor tweaks are required to be made in the host which is usually an effort that should be re-done on system drive failure scenario.

[dean.kannenberg]

Great Video again. Thanks for that great one. Some of these settings was new to me and look really beneficial :)