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Proxmox VE is like a caretaker for your computer, allowing you to run multiple virtual ‘rooms’ (virtual machines or containers) on a single real computer. Imagine you only have one large refrigerator, but you want to keep different types of food separate. With Proxmox, you can divide the refrigerator into different compartments and place your virtual machines or containers there, each with their own software and data. This allows you to run multiple operating systems or applications on one server without interfering with each other.
A virtualization solution based on KVM/LXC, your complete open source platform for enterprise virtualization. With the central web interface, VMs, containers, highly available clusters, software-defined storage, networks and more can be managed.
Here it is a bit more detailed:
- What is virtualization? Proxmox VE is a virtualization platform. This means it allows you to run multiple virtual machines (VMs) or containers on a physical server.
- Virtual Machines (VMs): Think of a VM as a completely self-contained computer running on a different computer. Each VM has its own operating system (e.g. Windows, Linux), applications and resources.
- Containers: Containers are lighter than VMs and share the operating system of the host system. They are like separate areas in a house, all of which have the same address (host system), but are separated by walls (containers).
- Proxmox as caretaker: Proxmox is the software that manages these virtual environments. It provides a user-friendly web interface that allows you to create, manage, launch, stop, and monitor VMs and containers.
- Why Proxmox? Proxmox is open source, which means it can be used for free. It is a popular alternative to commercial virtualization solutions like VMware. Proxmox also provides support for container technologies such as LXC, enabling more efficient use of resources.
- Benefits:
- Cost efficiency: Since Proxmox is open source, there are no license fees.
- Flexibility: You can run different operating systems and applications on a single server.
- Resource conservation: Containers can handle resources more efficiently than VMs.
- Administration: The web interface makes it easy to manage and monitor your virtual environments.
- Disadvantages:
- Manual updates: Proxmox requires manual updates.
- Storage management: Storage management can be problematic, especially with shared storage between VMs.
- Backup solution: The backup functions could be improved.
Conclusion:
In summary: Proxmox VE A powerful tool to efficiently use your server by allowing you to run and manage multiple virtual environments. Together with the Proxmox Backup Server Solution and the Proxmox Mail Gateway This is a round thing.