Book 5

Hypervisors: Proxmox & VMware

Virtual machines, clusters, and enterprise virtualization

Free · Digital Textbook

Type-1 hypervisors, Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, networking, storage, snapshots, and VMs vs containers.

  • 9 chapters
  • ~5 hours
  • Hands-on exercises in every chapter
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Table of Contents

Chapters

Read in order the first time — later chapters reference the lab company introduced in Chapter 1.

  1. 01 Welcome to Book 5 Why virtualize and where Proxmox vs VMware fits. 8 min
  2. 02 Why Virtualize? Consolidation, snapshots, dev/staging, HA intro. 22 min
  3. 03 Type 1 vs Type 2 Hypervisors ESXi/Proxmox vs VirtualBox — production vs laptop. 20 min
  4. 04 Proxmox VE Fundamentals Nodes, VMs, LXC, web UI, storage pools. 35 min
  5. 05 VMware ESXi Overview vSphere, vCenter, licensing, when enterprises choose it. 28 min
  6. 06 VM Networking & Storage Bridges, VLAN tags, local vs SAN/NFS. 30 min
  7. 07 Backups & Snapshots Crash-consistent vs app-aware, 3-2-1 rule. 25 min
  8. 08 Containers vs VMs When Docker wins, when full VM wins. 22 min
  9. 09 Capstone: VM Layout for Workshop Co. Prod, staging, DB split — Proxmox plan. 40 min