Proxmox VE Installation Lab

IP Addressing

You will be assigning static IPs to your systems in this lab. Please use these settings: All VMs:

• Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
• Default Gateway: 172.17.xx.1
• DNS Server 172.17.139.11

System	IP
Pod 1 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 1 VM B	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 2 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 2 VM B	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 3 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 3 VM B	172.17.xx.xx

System	IP
Pod 4 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 4 VM B	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 5 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 5 VM B	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 6 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 6 VM B	172.17.xx.xx

System	IP
Pod 7 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 7 VM B	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 8 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 8 VM B	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 9 VM A	172.17.xx.xx
Pod 9 VM B	172.17.xx.xx

Instructions

1. You will be installing a Proxmox VE server on two VMs assigned to you (so do all these steps, unless otherwise indicated, on each computer). If you are unsure about how to do something try checking the Proxmox Wiki site first.
   • NOTE: Be sure to use a unique hostname on each Proxmox server, otherwise you will have issues connecting them together in a future lab.
2. Two VMs have been provided for you which you will be installing ProxMox VE on, each has:
   • 24GB RAM
   • 300GB Hard Drive
   • 2 CPUs
   • Enabled VTi/VTx Virtualization for the processors
3. VMs are located on the https://netlab-ihcc.campus.ihitc.net server system, be sure you are connected to the ITCnet VPN before attempting to access this system
4. Locate the Proxmox VE installer ISO file and ensure it is loaded from the datastore into the CD drive of each of your VMs
5. Start the Proxmox VE installation (on both VMs) making note of these options:
   • Set the Country to United States and Timezone to America/Chicago
   • Record the administrative password for future use
   • Set the IP address for each Proxmox system using table above
   • Make sure the hostname is different on each Proxmox VE server and ends with .itc2300.campus.ihitc.net
     • It is recommended you set the name to "pod1proxmoxA.itc2300.ihitc.net" (change as needed for your pod number and VM A/B)
6. Once installation is finished use a web browser on your host system to access the Proxmox VE server's web interface as the root user (username root) and password set during the installation
7. Add a second user account to Proxmox VE and set it up with administrative access. Set the second account up as a Proxmox VE Authentication Server realm account meaning it will only be available in Proxmox and not on the underlying Linux system.
   • NOTE: You may want to read up about objects and paths for user accounts in Proxmox you will need to set a path for the account in order to get administrative permissions working. This is a bit trickier to get right than it may seem at first.
8. Log out of the root account and in using the secondary account you just created
9. Connect to your PodX-Win10 VM and use that to upload Windows 10 and Linux Mint ISO files to the Proxmox VE server using the web interface
   • You may have problems uploading the ISO files with the Edge browser so you may want to install Firefox or Chrome if you have issues uploading
10. The ISO files can be found on the Windows SMB share "\\san1.campus.ihitc.net\Student Files\ITC2300" which you can access from your PodX-Win10 VM
11. Try creating a Windows 10 and Linux Mint VM (one in each of your Proxmox VE servers) and complete the installation (use KVM as the VM type)
    • NOTE: Choose that you don't have a product key when installing Windows, we'll just use the trial version of Windows 10 Education
12. Safely shut down your Windows and Linux Mint guest systems
13. Safely shutdown your Proxmox VE servers
14. Safely shutdown your PodX-Win10 VM