#proxmox ve
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Blog posts
Privileged vs Unprivileged LXC Containers in Proxmox VE: Understanding the Security Tradeoffs
Every Proxmox container is created privileged or unprivileged, and that one checkbox decides how much of your host a container escape could reach. Here's what the two modes actually do at the kernel level, and how to choose and convert between them.
How to Manage Proxmox VE with Ansible: Automating VM and LXC Provisioning
A practical guide to provisioning and configuring Proxmox VE VMs and LXC containers with Ansible, using the current community.proxmox collection, API tokens, dynamic inventory, and idempotent playbooks.
How to Manage Proxmox VE with Terraform: A Complete Infrastructure-as-Code Guide
Stop clicking through the GUI to build the same VM twice. Here's how to use the bpg/proxmox Terraform provider to declaratively provision VMs and LXC containers, manage state safely, and import machines you already have.
How to Configure HugePages for Proxmox VE Virtual Machines (Static and Transparent)
Reduce TLB overhead and get predictable memory latency for databases and DPDK workloads by reserving static HugePages in Proxmox VE, configuring NUMA-aware VMs, and understanding why HugePages and memory ballooning can't be used together.
How to Update Proxmox VE Safely (Without Breaking Your Host)
New to Proxmox and not sure how updates work? This beginner guide covers the enterprise vs no-subscription repositories, the right apt commands, when a reboot is actually needed, and the mistakes that leave a node half-upgraded.
How Memory Ballooning Works in Proxmox VE (And When to Disable It)
A deep dive into how the virtio-balloon device lets Proxmox VE dynamically resize VM memory, how to configure it via the GUI and qm.conf, and when you should turn it off for databases, PCI passthrough, and SLA-bound workloads.
How to Pass Through an NVMe SSD to a VM in Proxmox VE (PCIe and Raw Disk Methods)
Give a VM direct, low-overhead access to a physical NVMe drive using PCIe (VFIO) passthrough or raw disk passthrough in Proxmox VE, including IOMMU setup, driver binding, and the hardware quirks that trip people up.
How to Set Up Proxmox Datacenter Manager (PDM) for Multi-Cluster Management
Proxmox Datacenter Manager gives you one dashboard and live migration across independent Proxmox VE clusters. Here's how to install it, connect your clusters with a properly scoped API token, and avoid the setup mistakes that block most first attempts.
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.
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