Proxmox VE from the admin guide: permissions, the firewall, storage replication and ZFS disk care

Skills you'll practise

• Choose the right authentication realm and grant permissions to groups on the narrowest path, using built-in roles
• Work out a user's effective permission on an object from propagation, user-versus-group entries and NoAccess
• Create a privilege-separated API token with only the access an integration needs
• Enable the Proxmox VE firewall at datacenter, node and VM level without losing management access
• Set up and troubleshoot storage replication, and recover a replicated guest when its node has failed
• Replace a failed disk in a ZFS boot mirror and size the ARC using the admin guide's rule

Course outline

1. 1.Proxmox VE permissions, firewall and replicationVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Users, roles, permission paths and API tokensLesson · 24 min
3. 3.The Proxmox VE firewallLesson · 20 min
4. 4.Replication, failed nodes and ZFS disksLesson · 21 min
5. 5.Proxmox VE from the admin guide: permissions, the firewall, storage replication and ZFS disk care: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
6. 6.Final exam12 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Proxmox VE Administration Guide: User Management (users, realms, roles, permissions, API tokens)
• Proxmox VE Administration Guide: Proxmox VE Firewall
• Proxmox VE Administration Guide: Storage Replication (pvesr)
• Proxmox VE Administration Guide: Host System Administration (ZFS on Linux, failed devices, ARC)