Proxmox 10 tweaks you need to know

Many are experimenting with Proxmox in their home lab and even in production environments. We take a look at the top 10 Proxmox tweaks in 2024 that you may want to implement.

Introduction to setup - 0:00
Implementing no subscription updates - 0:48
VLAN-enabling the default bridge - 1:34
Clustering - 2:15
Ceph storage - 3:10
Configuring HA for VMs - 4:11
LetsEncrypt certificates - 4:50
Configuring two-factor authentication - 5:40
Setup Proxmox server monitoring with InfluxDB - 6:26
Configuring Proxmox Software Defined Networking (SDN) - 7:05
Setup the new VMware ESXi Import tool - 7:57
Wrapping up the 10 tweaks for Proxmox - 8:42

[Glatze]

Very good tips Brandon! Thank´s a lot for your time and work.

[christopherpeterson]

Main br0 should be management, then setup br1 as a vlan aware bridge for your vm's.

[ryanmalone]

Very useful. Just installed Proxmox and was already reading some of the exact documentation you referred to and a few items I was wondering about.

[johnvanwinkle]

Thank you for these tips! Great video! Keep up the good work!

[goodcitizen]

Also do the "Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts"

[accesser]

I've just moved my Intel NUC HOMELAB off ESXI, onto Proxmox, I'm loving having something fresh and new to play with.
Perhaps a good topic to cover might be how local storage works inside Proxmox vs ESXI, the concepts are quite different , it took me a few reinstalls to get the local SSD/MVME storage right

[Trains-With-Shane]

I use Netdata to monitor my proxmox rather than using InfluxDB and Grafana. When I tested InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafama, telegraf, chronograf, etc. etc. Netdata won out as far as what used the least amount of compute and storage. I was trying to keep this host as lean as possible.

[donireland]

I was hoping you'd show HOW to implement these tips -- not just tell me I SHOULD.

[JasonsLabVideos]

Brandon :). thanks so much for this, i'm just diving into Proxmox on my Protectli VP6650 box and its pretty sweet. I will have to link your video in my video i make !! Thanks again sir !

[JohnSmith-yzuh]

I've never enabled vlan aware in the bridge, just added the vlan tag in the VM options. It did work

[mansourq]

You are doing a great job bro, thank you so much and keep up ...LIKED as always

[gerry]

I like this vid. Good information on proxmox.

[mrpopsko]

hey awesome job on the video and great tips, it really helps i've found to flesh out a use case scenario for each of them or just explain how things are better with {x} over {y} solution

edit: at the end you asked if any of us did anything different to you, i'd like to put out there that SR-IOV on a nic is really useful in building out performant VMs. I made the switch some year ago when I went 10gb and its been really nice giving each VM a proper nic rather than some software implementation.

[AndersonAraujo]

The best and fastest way I found to migrate, at least from xen or xcp, is to create the vm in proxmox with disk capacities in zfs storage, get the disk path and via ssh using a fast hash and active compression stream via dd to destination disk. in xen I use vdi-export and vms with 50gb is done in just a few minutes

[xphiles]

moved all my esxi vms to proxmox and shut down esxi...running on an HP Elite Desk with 64GB of ram vs a Proliant G8 with 192GB, cant wait to see my next power bill. i tried that esxi import tool but got errors on all but 1 vm when attempting to import. I found it easier to just use the ovftool to do the import and did it on the rest of the vms without issue. Other than having to install the virtio driver on a couple and enable ide for Centos based VMs

[bettdiaz]

awesome tips! I will check your ceph video. QQ(and maybe video material)... I have proxmox in a cheap desktop pc. The included NVME(no brand) died as de to hardware errors and I used it as boot and storage for the vm/containers disks. I also have some hdd's connected by sata, as I was using them in ZFS for a NAS(container with samba). Any recommendation on how to manage the storage in the future to prevent a hardware failure? Maybe server certified disks? Or a way to backup the main storage for proxmox to have a fast recovery? Thanks!

[eoeoeovideos]

Any idea How to automatize the setup of creating a VM from WHMCS? To take IP pool

[klzgh]

the sdn configuracion i don't understand. its like a i have a vnic predefined with a vlan?

[kafadek]

Thanks for this. Although my forst step would be pls but a subscription if you can. We dont want another broadcom acquisition here.

[KAROGRP]

The thing is, I'm not using Proxmox at home in a lab at all. My boss thinks it's great though!