About

The project

Proxmox Community is a practical, open manual about Proxmox VE 9, Proxmox Backup Server 4 and Proxmox Datacenter Manager, written for people who want to learn Proxmox VE by doing.

The manual is a sequence of 53 connected labs, from preparing the environment to running clusters, storage, networking and backups. All the guides work on the same infrastructure (Proxmox VE servers, a domain controller, a NAS, a switch with VLANs, a router and a network-services server) and document the configurations, screenshots and results of the tests they describe, including the errors met along the way and the steps taken to fix them. Software versions and the characteristics of the environment are part of the exercise: if you repeat a test on a different system, some outputs and results may differ.

The project is designed to grow: besides the lab path, anyone can propose new guides, fixes and translations. See Contribute.

Who maintains it

The project is maintained by NextGuard together with its contributors, and published by the Next-Guard organization on GitHub.

Reports, questions and proposals are welcome as issues or pull requests in the project repository.

Licenses

• Content (text, images, diagrams): Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). You may copy, adapt and redistribute it, also commercially, as long as you credit the source and keep the same license.
• Code (scripts and configuration files published in the files folder, code snippets): MIT license.

Trademarks

Proxmox® is a registered trademark of Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. This project is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

Other names and trademarks mentioned (for example Debian, Ceph, TrueNAS, MikroTik, Microsoft Windows, VMware ESXi) belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe the products.

The official Proxmox VE documentation remains the reference: the labs link to the relevant official pages in their References section.