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Guides, deep dives and product news on automating Proxmox VE at scale.
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Common Mistakes New Proxmox VE Users Make (And How to Avoid Them)
From deleting local-lvm by accident to locking yourself out with the firewall, these are the beginner mistakes that trip up almost every new Proxmox VE admin — and how to avoid or fix each one.
CPU Pinning and NUMA Tuning in Proxmox VE: A Practical Guide to vCPU Affinity and Topology
Map your host's NUMA topology, pin vCPUs to physical cores with affinity, and bind VM memory to the right NUMA node — a hands-on guide to deterministic, low-latency performance tuning in Proxmox VE.
How to Access Proxmox VE Remotely and Securely (Without Exposing Port 8006)
Learn the safe way to reach your Proxmox VE web interface from outside your home network: SSH tunneling for quick access, a full Tailscale VPN setup, and locking down pveproxy so port 8006 never touches the open internet.
How to Remove a Node From a Proxmox VE Cluster (Safely, Without Breaking Quorum)
Decommissioning hardware or cleaning up after a dead node? Here's the full, correct order of operations for removing a node from a Proxmox VE cluster: draining workloads, tearing down Ceph and replication jobs, running pvecm delnode, recovering from quorum loss, and cleaning up everything the command leaves behind.
How to Add iSCSI Storage in Proxmox VE (With LVM on Top for VM Disks)
Connecting Proxmox VE to a SAN over iSCSI is only half the job — a raw LUN can hold just one VM disk. This guide shows how to add the iSCSI target and layer LVM on top so you get real shared storage for VM disks across a cluster.
Proxmox VE Disk Image Formats Explained: Raw vs qcow2 vs VMDK
Raw, qcow2, and vmdk look like an arbitrary dropdown when you add a VM disk in Proxmox VE, but each one trades off snapshots, thin provisioning, and I/O overhead differently. Here is what each format actually does, which storage backends support them, and how to convert between them without guesswork.
How to Run Docker Inside an LXC Container on Proxmox VE
Docker's overlay2 driver, unprivileged containers, and ZFS storage don't get along by default. Here's the working Proxmox VE 9.2 configuration - nesting, keyctl, and fuse-overlayfs - plus the backup caveats most guides skip.
How to Change the Root Password in Proxmox VE (GUI, Shell, and pveum)
Learn three ways to change the root password on a Proxmox VE host: the web GUI Password button, the Linux passwd command, and the pveum CLI tool — plus what to do if it does not seem to take effect.
How to Fix High RAM Usage in Proxmox VE (And What's Actually Normal)
free -h showing 90% used and panicking? Learn why ZFS ARC and KSM make Proxmox VE memory usage look scary, how to tell real pressure from normal caching, and what to actually fix.