Proxmox VE Administration Guide

You can browse the administration guide as a single-page HTML document.

You can also download the guide in the following formats:

Individual Chapters

Chapter

1. Introduction

2. Installing Proxmox VE

3. Host System Administration

4. Graphical User Interface

5. Cluster Manager

6. Proxmox Cluster File System (pmxcfs)

7. Proxmox VE Storage

8. Deploy Hyper-Converged Ceph Cluster

9. Storage Replication

10. QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines

11. Proxmox Container Toolkit

12. Software-Defined Network

13. Proxmox VE Firewall

14. User Management

15. High Availability

16. Backup and Restore

17. Notifications

25. Shell interface for the Proxmox VE API

26. Frequently Asked Questions

27. Bibliography

Proxmox VE Manual Pages

Command-line Interface

Name Title

ha-manager(1)

High Availability

pct(1)

Proxmox Container Toolkit

pveam(1)

Container Images

pveceph(1)

Deploy Hyper-Converged Ceph Cluster

pvecm(1)

Cluster Manager

pvenode(1)

Proxmox Node Management

pveperf(1)

Proxmox VE Benchmark Script

pvesh(1)

Shell interface for the Proxmox VE API

pvesm(1)

Proxmox VE Storage

pvesr(1)

Storage Replication

pvesubscription(1)

Subscription Management

pveum(1)

User Management

qm(1)

QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines

qmrestore(1)

Restore Virtual Machines

vzdump(1)

Backup and Restore

Service Daemons

Name Title

pmxcfs(8)

Proxmox Cluster File System (pmxcfs)

pve-firewall(8)

Proxmox VE Firewall

pve-ha-crm(8)

Cluster Resource Manager Daemon

pve-ha-lrm(8)

Local Resource Manager Daemon

pvedaemon(8)

Proxmox VE API Daemon

pveproxy(8)

Proxmox VE API Proxy Daemon

pvescheduler(8)

Proxmox VE Scheduler Daemon

pvestatd(8)

Proxmox VE Status Daemon

qmeventd(8)

PVE QEMU Event Daemon

spiceproxy(8)

SPICE Proxy Service

Configuration Options

Name Title

cpu-models.conf(5)

Custom CPU Model Configuration

datacenter.cfg(5)

Datacenter Configuration

pct.conf(5)

Container Configuration

qm.conf(5)

Virtual Machine Configuration

API Viewer

The API viewer is a tiny web application which allows you to inspect all available API calls.