1 [[chapter_system_administration]]
2 Host System Administration
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8 The following sections will focus on common virtualization tasks and explain the
9 {pve} specifics regarding the administration and management of the host machine.
11 {pve} is based on https://www.debian.org/[Debian GNU/Linux] with additional
12 repositories to provide the {pve} related packages. This means that the full
13 range of Debian packages is available including security updates and bug fixes.
14 {pve} provides it's own Linux kernel based on the Ubuntu kernel. It has all the
15 necessary virtualization and container features enabled and includes
16 https://zfsonlinux.org[ZFS] and several extra hardware drivers.
18 For other topics not included in the following sections, please refer to the
19 Debian documentation. The
20 https://debian-handbook.info/download/stable/debian-handbook.pdf[Debian
21 Administrator\'s Handbook] is available online, and provides a comprehensive
22 introduction to the Debian operating system (see xref:Hertzog13[]).
29 * link:/wiki/Package_Repositories[Package Repositories]
31 * link:/wiki/Network_Configuration[Network Configuration]
33 * link:/wiki/System_Software_Updates[System Software Updates]
35 * link:/wiki/External_Metric_Server[External Metric Server]
37 * link:/wiki/Disk_Health_Monitoring[Disk Health Monitoring]
39 * link:/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)[Logical Volume Manager (LVM)]
41 * link:/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux[ZFS on Linux]
43 * link:/wiki/Certificate_Management[Certificate Management]
49 include::pve-package-repos.adoc[]
51 include::system-software-updates.adoc[]
53 include::pve-network.adoc[]
55 include::system-timesync.adoc[]
57 include::pve-external-metric-server.adoc[]
59 include::pve-disk-health-monitoring.adoc[]
61 include::local-lvm.adoc[]
63 include::local-zfs.adoc[]
65 include::pvenode.adoc[]
67 include::certificate-management.adoc[]
69 include::system-booting.adoc[]
77 Working with 'systemd'
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83 TODO: explain persistent journal...