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 see: Prepare Installation Media.

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, 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 Installation for more details about the options of the installation wizard.

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

The installer supports mouse and keyboard. The tab key as well as hot keys can be used.

Tutorial legend: Click->I Agree would be pressing a button. IP address:< your host IP> describes an input field's label to enter.

# Boot loader is Keyboard only. Just press 'Enter' to start the installation or use arrow keys for menu navigation.
Enter

End user license Agreement ( EULA)

Click -> I agree

Target disk

# For the base system
# you can add other disks or shared storages after the installation

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 installation 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 or your DNS for Proxmox host name resolution. 
# The Installer will try to use DHCP for automatic address configuration during install. 
# Make sure to configure your DHCP server to exclude a block of address used by Proxmox VE.
# or reserve the address for the PVE host statically (via MAC)
Hostname (FQDN) : <host.domain.TLD>
IP Address CIDR : < something static >/<netmask>
Gateway         : < default >
DNS Server      : < default >

Click -> Next

Confirm

You'll see an overview of the settings you choose, verify them to ensure all is OK.

# Once you click the system will start the installation
Click -> Install

(The installer 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

Cluster Manager

Video Tutorials

• Proxmox VE Youtube channel