Some thoughts on Proxmox and some linux partitioning

Proxmox turned out to be a nice virtualization option. Аt first glance it seems to me that the resources thanks to open-vz are accumulated very well.

After you install you can access the virtual infrastructure here:

https://<ip>:8006

One other thing is that I had to add another partition to the virtual environment

List all hard drives:
lsblk

sudo parted /dev/sdb <- your device here

mklabel gpt
mkpart ext3 2048s -1s

print

quit

sudo partprobe -s /dev/sdb

sudo mke2fs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 -L "label"  

sudo tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/sdb1

sudo mkdir /media/partition

sudo chown root:root /media/partition

sudo chmod 777 /media/partition

add an entry in fstab

 /dev/sdb1 /media/partition ext3 defaults 0 0


and then sudo mount -a to refresh fstab.

One other thing is that the PC I installed it on did not have 64 bit virtual support, which generally is bad - not to say stronger words. Anyways I had to use templates on the proxmox because for some reason I was not able to install Ubuntu Server actually even with the template. Turnkey which is Ubuntu based was installed!? Anyway it is 32 bit and doesn't need 64 bit virtualization, but as it seems there was some issue so I was forced to install a CentOS although I wanted my environment to be as homogeneous as possible.

One other notable thing is the networking - it seems some templates pass the dhcp from my router and that the templates are configured to accept those and some as CentOS template had to be set? I set my network settings at a gateway level - so this a bit annoyed me. But you can set your networking settings through the web interface and I did not know that :D

So just dig in the gui you will find the network settings - don't do this. I did it the hard way:
ifconfig eth0 <ip> netmask <mask> broadcast <broadcast> 
route add default gw <gw ip>


Don't forget to set the DNS.

Conclusion: It's Ok to be used for 32-bit Linux based systems with the default templates. 

References:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Turnkey_Linux_Templates

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/8139-trouble-with-opening-a-console-to-an-openvz-container

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/10213-Network-problem

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/9913-Proxmox-v2-1-1-TASK-ERROR-No-accelerator-found!

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OpenVZ_Console

http://www.tecmint.com/ifconfig-command-examples/
http://www.ubuntux.org/edit-fstab-to-mount-partition-at-startup