What is Proxmox VE?

An excerpt from their website here:

Proxmox VE is a complete open source server virtualization management software. It is based on KVM virtualization and container-based virtualization and manages KVM virtual machines, Linux containers (LXC), storage, virtualized networks, and HA clusters.

For a thorough list of features, check out their PDF Datasheet here

Why do we care?

Outline:

• Hypervisors
• KVM
• LXC and OpenVZ Containers
• Ceph storage cluster management integrated directly into UI (RBD usage for VMs)
• Gluster support

How are we implementing it?

Installation from ISO:

Select installation method:

Accept license agreement:

Select storage:

There are some additional options when you click "options"...

Select country and time zone:

Set root password and email:

Set hostname and configure network interfaces:

Wait...

Installation should be finished!