Quick installation

Introduction

This is a quick installation guide for Proxmox VE.

• For installing from scratch see the Downloads wiki
• For upgrading 6.x to 7.0, see Upgrade from Proxmox VE 6.x to 7.x
• For upgrading 5.x to 6.0, see Upgrade from 5.x to 6.0
• For upgrading older releases, see Upgrade Guides for older Releases

Additionally, we also provide a "how-to" for installation on Debian 10 Buster or Debian 11 Bullseye.

Get the ISO

Download the ISO image and move it to a USB media, see Install from USB Stick. Or just burn a CD.

Minimum requirements, for evaluation

• CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard (for KVM Full Virtualization support)
• RAM: 1 GB RAM
• Hard drive
• One NIC
• CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)
• Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard for KVM full virtualization support
• RAM: 1 GB RAM, plus additional RAM needed for guests
• Hard drive with at least 16 GiB of space, plus additional space needed for guests
• One network card (NIC)

For more details and recommendations see System Requirements.

Start the installation

• See Debugging Installation#Boot options for custom partition settings.The installer supports partitions greater 2 TB (using GUID Partition Table, GPT).

The Gui installer supports mouse and keyboard. The tab key as well as hot keys can be used. Click->I Agree is a button press. IP address:< your host Ip> is a label with an option.

# Comments 
Click->I Agree
# Pick an open address on your network.
Ipaddress: 192.168.0.100

#Boot loader is Keyboard only. Just press 'Enter' to start the installation 
Enter

End user license Agreement ( EULA)

Click -> I agree

Target disk

# Local disks are fine for demo and small systems.
# Shared storage is a best practice for a Cluster.

Click -> Next

Location and Time Zone selection

# It's best to have all systems set to the same time zone.  
Country   :< Your Country >
Time zone :< Your time zone >
Keyboard  :< Your Keyboard > 

Click -> Next

Administration Password and Email Address

With a basic install like this, the Web GUI will face the Internet. A Firewall and strong passwords are recommended.

# The email address is used to report the recovery of High Availability services, important package update news, backup notifications (configurable) and other important events.
Password : < Something Strong >
Confirm  : < Something Strong >
E-Mail   : < your email address >

Click -> Next

Network Configuration

# FQDN is Required for email server and public facing Web GUI.
# A plain host name will have issues when clustering.
# The clusters use etc hosts for Proxmox host name resolution. 
# The Installer will pull a dhcp address during install. 
# Do not put your host in the middle of your pool of address. 
# Make sure to configure your dhcp server to exclude a block of address used by proxmox.
Hostname (FQDN) : <host.domain.TLD>
IP Address      : < something static >
Netmask         : < default >
Gateway         : < default >
DNS Server      : < default >

Click -> Next

( The installer will will run with a progress bar)

Installation Successful!

Click ->reboot

Web GUI

From another machine, use your browser and accept the self signed cert used for the Web GUI.

https://192.168.0.xx:8006

Update your Proxmox VE Server to latest available version

In order to get new features and all security updates and bugfixes you should always update a new ISO install to the latest available packages via GUI updater or via CLI (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade)

For more details about our update services, see Package repositories

Web-based Management

Central_Web-based_Management

Proxmox VE Cluster

Proxmox_VE_2.0_Cluster

Video Tutorials

• Proxmox VE Youtube channel