#proxmox
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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.
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.
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 Email Notifications in Proxmox VE for Backup and System Alerts
Set up Proxmox VE's notification system so failed backups, storage warnings, and cluster issues email you automatically, instead of finding out weeks later.
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 Resize a Virtual Disk in Proxmox VE (Without Losing Data)
Your Proxmox VM's disk is full and you don't want to rebuild it. Here's how to grow a virtual disk safely in Proxmox VE 9.2, then extend the partition and filesystem inside Linux or Windows guests.
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.
Setting Up a Corosync QDevice for Two-Node Proxmox VE Cluster Quorum
A two-node Proxmox VE cluster loses quorum the moment one node reboots. Here's why the vote math breaks down and how to fix it permanently with an external corosync QDevice as a tie-breaker.
What Is a Proxmox Cluster? (And Do You Actually Need One?)
Clustering sounds like something only data centers need, but it's really just several Proxmox nodes agreeing to share one view. Here's what Corosync and quorum actually mean, and when you genuinely need a cluster versus when you don't.