sysadmin.adoc

   1 [[chapter_system_administration]]
   2 Host System Administration
   3 ==========================
   4 ifndef::manvolnum[]
   5 :pve-toplevel:
   6 endif::manvolnum[]
   7
   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.
  10
  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 its 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.
  17
  18 For other topics not included in the following sections, please refer to the
  19 Debian documentation. The
  20 https://debian-handbook.info/get[Debian
  21 Administrator\'s Handbook] is available online, and provides a comprehensive
  22 introduction to the Debian operating system (see xref:Hertzog13[]).
  23
  24 ifdef::wiki[]
  25
  26 See Also
  27 --------
  28
  29 * link:/wiki/Package_Repositories[Package Repositories]
  30
  31 * link:/wiki/Network_Configuration[Network Configuration]
  32
  33 * link:/wiki/System_Software_Updates[System Software Updates]
  34
  35 * link:/wiki/Firmware_Updates[Firmware Updates]
  36
  37 * link:/wiki/Host_Bootloader[Host Bootloader]
  38
  39 * link:/wiki/Time_Synchronization[Time Synchronization]
  40
  41 * link:/wiki/External_Metric_Server[External Metric Server]
  42
  43 * link:/wiki/Disk_Health_Monitoring[Disk Health Monitoring]
  44
  45 * link:/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)[Logical Volume Manager (LVM)]
  46
  47 * link:/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux[ZFS on Linux]
  48
  49 * link:/wiki/BTRFS[BTRFS]
  50
  51 * link:/wiki/Certificate_Management[Certificate Management]
  52
  53 * link:/wiki/Kernel_Samepage_Merging_(KSM)[Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)]
  54
  55 endif::wiki[]
  56
  57
  58 ifndef::wiki[]
  59
  60 include::pve-package-repos.adoc[]
  61
  62 include::system-software-updates.adoc[]
  63
  64 include::firmware-updates.adoc[]
  65
  66 include::pve-network.adoc[]
  67
  68 include::system-timesync.adoc[]
  69
  70 include::pve-external-metric-server.adoc[]
  71
  72 include::pve-disk-health-monitoring.adoc[]
  73
  74 include::local-lvm.adoc[]
  75
  76 include::local-zfs.adoc[]
  77
  78 include::local-btrfs.adoc[]
  79
  80 include::pvenode.adoc[]
  81
  82 include::certificate-management.adoc[]
  83
  84 include::system-booting.adoc[]
  85
  86 include::kernel-samepage-merging.adoc[]
  87
  88 endif::wiki[]
  89
  90
  91 ////
  92 TODO:
  93
  94 Working with 'systemd'
  95 ----------------------
  96
  97 Journal and syslog
  98 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  99
 100 TODO: explain persistent journal...
 101
 102 ////