#proxmox-ve
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How to Enable Email Notifications in Proxmox VE
A step-by-step guide to setting up email notifications in Proxmox VE, covering SMTP and sendmail targets, matchers, a working Gmail example, and common setup errors.
Building Multi-Node VXLAN Overlays with Proxmox VE SDN
How to design and deploy VXLAN zones in Proxmox VE SDN to build layer 2 overlay networks that span racks and sites without depending on physical switch VLAN provisioning.
How to Create Your First Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Never created a VM before? This step-by-step Proxmox VE tutorial walks you through the Create VM wizard tab by tab, explains every setting in plain English, and gets you from a blank ISO upload to a running virtual machine.
Tuning Corosync Link Priority and Token Timeouts for Proxmox VE Cluster Resilience
Proxmox VE corosync redundancy only works if knet actually prefers the right link. Here's how to set link priority correctly, read corosync-cfgtool output, and avoid tuning the token timeout blind.
Virtual Machine vs LXC Container in Proxmox VE: Which One Should You Use?
Proxmox gives you two ways to run a workload: Create VM or Create CT. Here's what actually happens under the hood with each one, a side-by-side comparison, and a simple way to decide.
How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in Proxmox VE
A beginner's walkthrough for turning on TOTP two-factor authentication in Proxmox VE, including recovery keys, realm-wide enforcement, and how to recover if you lock yourself out.
How to Set Up a VLAN-Aware Bridge in Proxmox VE
A beginner-friendly guide to VLANs in Proxmox VE — what a VLAN-aware bridge does, how to enable it, how to tag individual VMs, and the trunk port setting that trips up almost everyone the first time.
Disarming HA in Proxmox VE 9.2: Safe Cluster-Wide Maintenance Without Fencing
Proxmox VE 9.2 adds cluster-wide disarm-ha and arm-ha commands so you can do network maintenance on an HA cluster without triggering fencing. Here's how the feature works and how to use it safely.
Speeding Up Metadata-Heavy Workloads on Proxmox VE with ZFS Special Allocation Class Vdevs
Directory listings and PBS garbage collection crawling on an otherwise fast ZFS pool? A special allocation class vdev moves metadata off spinning disks and onto SSD without rebuilding the pool.