The Proxmox VE 9 is one of the powerful alternatives for virtualization solutions like VMware VSphere and Microsoft HyperV, it's free and open source, you can implement clusters and high availability without using any additional licenses or fees.

The course has been updated on Feb 27, 2026 to include the new release changes, the lectures were also re-organized to be divided into shorter videos instead of long-lectures according to students feedback.

In this course you learn how to create a high available data center using Proxmox VE, high availability and shared storage solutions, in this course you will learn how to manage firewall, users and permissions and how to configure networking and bonding, all the following topics will be covered in this course:

Introduction and Installation

• Installing Proxmox VE from ISO

Web Interface

• Web Interface GUI

• Creating Your First VM

• Virtual Machine Options

QEMU/KVM and LXC Containers

• Virtual Machines and Containers

• Creating Your First Container

• RAM and Disk Advanced Configurations

• Advanced RAM Configurations

• Advanced Disk Options and Caching Types

• Emulated and Paravirtualized Devices

Network Concepts and Management

• Network Configurations

• Network Bonding

Storage Management

• Editing Storage Contents and Uploading ISOs

• Adding New Storgaes

Proxmox VE Firewall

• Enabling Firewall and Creating Rules

• Security Groups

• IP Aliases

• IP Sets

• Firewall Logging

• Firewall Services and Commands

• FTP Rules

• Integration with Suricata IPS

• Common Ports 

  Backup and Restore

• Backup Schedule and Modes

• Snapshots, Cloning and Templates

Users Administration

• Users and Authentication Realms

• Permission Management

• Privileges 

• Objects and Paths

• Pools, VM Permissions and Groups

Proxmox Cluster

•  Creating 3 Nodes Cluster

• Quorum

• Cluster Filesystem

High Availability

• Introduction to HA and Shared Storage

• Ceph Installation and Configurations

• Activating High Availability

• Adding and Removing OSDs

• GlusterFS Shared Storage 

• ZFS Shared Storage and Replication

• Storage for ISO and Templates

Proxmox VE Services

Command Line Interface

• Common Commands

• Configuring PVE From Files

Proxmox VE API and Billing Automation  (brief)

Eventually, this will be a continuous course I am going to add any additional topics I think they are important, and any topics requested by students.

So, if you think that this course can be improved by adding any topics, then please let me know.