Proxmox: Installation and Configuration 2023

In this video I show you how to start your Proxmox journey. I explain the basics, guiding you through installation and detailing my recommendations. I show you how to import previous virtual machines, and how to create new ones, and some quality of life techniques for optimising your Proxmox usage.

00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Why Proxmox?
02:45 - Installing Proxmox
03:50 - Raidz config and why
05:21 - Network configuration
06:33 - Proxmox dashboard
09:18 - Migrating existing VM to Proxmox
11:27 - Creating a VM from existing virtual harddrive
13:45 - Creating a NEW VM in Proxmox (with extended options walkthrough)
14:37 - Uploading ISOs to Proxmox
19:36 - Starting your new VM
20:30 - Next video = Firewalls!

[TheComsicCurator]

Hey Jim,

Do you have a video explaining, and showing how to create networks in Proxomox?

[Michllo]

Thanks for all the homelab videos - they helped me a lot! One of the things i'm now trying to figure out is how to make the Proxmox UI available with Traefik. Does any of your videos describe how to set that up?

[medivix]

Thanks for your nice vidéos.
I still have a question about Proxmox, what would be better on a dedicated machine : Proxmox VE install or Debian 12 install with Proxmox installed over... ?

[brewland]

Installed Proxmox bare-metal using a Ryzen 4600G CPU. Going through the Ubuntu Server guide again now to get docker up and running again. I only have a single NVMe in that rig, so I chose basic zfs, non raid.

I had issues installing VM's once Proxmox was up and running in Hyper-V on my my main rig which has a Ryzen 5950X CPU. The error I received in the bottom Tasks section in Proxmox using Hyper-V was the following: "TASK ERROR: KVM virtualisation configured, but not available. Either disable in VM configuration or enable in BIOS."

Strange error considering Hyper-V itself requires virtualization to be enabled in the BIOS.

[viggyprabhu]

How are able to achieve High Availability on a two node cluster? I heard at min. 3 nodes are needed for voting to work properly. Are there some settings which can help in case ok two node setup?

[tonyrambler]

Hi Jim, once ProxMox is installed, can an OS in a VM (such as a Debian install) be booted into without the Proxmox GUI or does it always have to run exclusively in the ProxMox console? Thanks!

[kiimaro]

I know this is like a year later so hopefully you'll see this message, but what would your recommendation be if I only have 2 PC's (1 gaming/personal, 1 homelab) and I want to have all storage on the homelab. I had issues trying to make it work with proxmox for ubuntu (so basically just docker) and HA but it could've just been me messing up aswell.

[TheStevenWhiting]

Does Proxmox have a client like VMWare Workstation? Where you can install it on windows and then run VMs on it?

[InsaiyanTech]

are you using a HBA card? i heard it was needed to get one if i want to put truenas on proxmox or you think i should do a baremetal Nas or just virtualize everything? im trying to follow your series to the T to get my homelab setup i noticed you did a firewall series but no router one should i have 3 different machines 1 for firewall 1 for Nas and then 1 for proxmox?

[InsaiyanTech]

Quick question i only have 2 pcs 1 my Game one and the other was going to be a Nas but i want it to be BareMetal so I'm trying to get a cheap pc for my router/firewall/Proxmox now what pc would be the one you run docker? on that's where I'm confused in the series. Im trying to figure out what pc and docker should i put like My torrent stuff on or can you run multiple dockers? like one in truenas and one in proxmox? im still new to the docker stuff but im trying to set this up soon just wating for a pc for a firewall

[boomsoundfactory]

What if you cannot receive the login info ? What’s the issue there ? I have my up address to put into my browser but it does NOT work. Please help

[AkshayKattukandathil]

when you said login using the credentials you created i thought you meant the email and password that was created. But root was the login username that worked after installation just fyi

[chinphamxuan]

Hello,

I installed Proxmox and can log in through the local IP address as well as via the reverse proxy server. I use Docker on another PC and point to the Proxmox server through the Docker jc21/nginx-proxy-manager.

I encounter an issue when trying to access the Console of the virtual machines (via NPM) with the error 'Failed to connect to server.' I think it might be related to the certificate.

Is there any way to resolve my issue?

Thank you

[ralphetienne]

Hey Jim, after starting the virtual machine and clicking “try or install ubuntu” the installation never start. The console just stays blank. Can you help me with this issue?

[peterfodor]

What do you think of Harvester? Is this something which can be good for Homelab and Kubernetes with Rancher? I am curious about your opinion Proxmox vs Harvester (with Rancher)

[evanmarshall]

Ahhhh man. You switching from hyper-v to Proxmox?? I thought you were gonna be the answer to my hyper-v homelab solution... You said in a previous video that you were going to fix the stutter with GPU passthrough for unbuntu desktop on hyper-v. You ever make that video?

[dktol]

Hard to read - maybe lower the resolution or increase the font size.

[livtown]

Is there a good guide on how to use IOMMU?

[mikescott]

Parking trying to install it tonight on a Dell PowerEdge T340. Stuck loading initial ramdisk, I can install ESXi, Wintel other linux distros, XCP, but not Proxmox..

[u]

Why doesn't Proxmox VMguests not have sound?