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Guides, deep dives and product news on automating Proxmox VE at scale.
How to Deploy a Hyper-Converged Ceph Cluster in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Setup Guide)
Turn the local disks in your Proxmox VE nodes into one shared, self-healing storage pool. Install Ceph, create monitors, managers, and OSDs, build a pool, and wire it up as VM storage.
How to Monitor Proxmox VE with InfluxDB and Grafana (External Metric Server Setup)
Proxmox VE's built-in graphs only get you so far past one node. Here's how to push its metrics into InfluxDB and build real Grafana dashboards with long retention and alerting.
How to Upgrade Proxmox VE 8 to Proxmox VE 9 (Complete Step-by-Step Guide)
A complete, safe walkthrough for upgrading a Proxmox VE 8.x host or cluster to Proxmox VE 9, covering pre-upgrade checks, repository migration to Trixie, Ceph and HA considerations, and post-upgrade verification.
How to Fix "VM Won't Start" Errors in Proxmox VE (Common Causes and Fixes)
Your Proxmox VM won't boot and the task log is full of jargon? Here's how to actually read that error, find out what's really wrong, and get the VM running again.
How to Configure LDAP and Active Directory Authentication in Proxmox VE
Stop managing separate Proxmox passwords for every user. Learn how to connect Proxmox VE to an existing LDAP or Active Directory server, sync users and groups, and map directory groups to Proxmox roles, with GUI steps, pveum CLI commands, and troubleshooting for common bind and sync errors.
How to Migrate VMs from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE Using the Import Wizard
Leaving VMware ESXi? Here's how to use Proxmox VE's built-in Import Wizard to pull VMs directly off an ESXi host, what Live-Import really risks, and the VirtIO/BIOS cleanup steps you'll need afterward.
How to Create ZFS Storage in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Turn spare disks into self-healing storage. This beginner guide shows how to build a ZFS pool in Proxmox VE using the GUI or CLI, then add it as usable storage for VMs and containers.
How to Set Up USB Device Passthrough for VMs and LXC Containers in Proxmox VE
A practical guide to passing USB devices — dongles, serial adapters, webcams, and security keys — into Proxmox VE virtual machines and LXC containers, covering vendor/ID and physical-port binding, cluster-wide Resource Mappings, and the modern pct device-passthrough workflow for unprivileged containers.
How to Delete a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE (Safely, Without Losing Data)
Cleaning up old test VMs? Here's how to safely delete a virtual machine in Proxmox VE using the web GUI and the qm destroy command, plus how to avoid wiping disks or backups you actually wanted to keep.