+[[chapter_system_administration]]
Host System Administration
==========================
+ifndef::manvolnum[]
+:pve-toplevel:
+endif::manvolnum[]
-{pve} is based on the famous https://www.debian.org/[Debian] Linux
-distribution. That means that you have access to the whole world of
-Debian packages, and the base system is well documented. The
-https://debian-handbook.info/download/stable/debian-handbook.pdf[Debian
-Administrator\'s Handbook] is available online, and provide a
-comprehensive introduction to the Debian operating system (see
-xref:Hertzog13[]).
+The following sections will focus on common virtualization tasks and explain the
+{pve} specifics regarding the administration and management of the host machine.
-A standard {pve} installation uses the default repositories from
-Debian, so you get bug fixes and security updates through that
-channel. In addition, we provide our own package repository to roll
-out all {pve} related packages. This includes updates to some
-Debian packages when necessary.
+{pve} is based on https://www.debian.org/[Debian GNU/Linux] with additional
+repositories to provide the {pve} related packages. This means that the full
+range of Debian packages is available including security updates and bug fixes.
+{pve} provides its own Linux kernel based on the Ubuntu kernel. It has all the
+necessary virtualization and container features enabled and includes
+https://zfsonlinux.org[ZFS] and several extra hardware drivers.
-We also deliver a specially optimized Linux kernel, where we enable all
-required virtualization and container features. That kernel includes
-drivers for http://zfsonlinux.org/[ZFS], and several hardware drivers.
-For example, we ship Intel network card drivers to support their
-newest hardware.
+For other topics not included in the following sections, please refer to the
+Debian documentation. The
+https://debian-handbook.info/get[Debian
+Administrator\'s Handbook] is available online, and provides a comprehensive
+introduction to the Debian operating system (see xref:Hertzog13[]).
-The following sections will concentrate on virtualization related
-topics. They either explains things which are different on {pve}, or
-tasks which are commonly used on {pve}. For other topics, please refer
-to the standard Debian documentation.
+ifdef::wiki[]
-System requirements
--------------------
+See Also
+--------
-For production servers, high quality server equipment is needed. Keep
-in mind, if you run 10 Virtual Servers on one machine and you then
-experience a hardware failure, 10 services are lost. {pve}
-supports clustering, this means that multiple {pve} installations
-can be centrally managed thanks to the included cluster functionality.
+* link:/wiki/Package_Repositories[Package Repositories]
-{pve} can use local storage (DAS), SAN, NAS and also distributed
-storage (Ceph RBD). For details see xref:chapter-storage[chapter storage].
+* link:/wiki/Network_Configuration[Network Configuration]
-Minimum requirements, for evaluation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* link:/wiki/System_Software_Updates[System Software Updates]
-* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)
+* link:/wiki/Firmware_Updates[Firmware Updates]
-* RAM: 1 GB RAM
+* link:/wiki/Host_Bootloader[Host Bootloader]
-* Hard drive
+* link:/wiki/Time_Synchronization[Time Synchronization]
-* One NIC
+* link:/wiki/External_Metric_Server[External Metric Server]
-Recommended system requirements
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* link:/wiki/Disk_Health_Monitoring[Disk Health Monitoring]
-* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), Multi core CPU recommended
+* link:/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)[Logical Volume Manager (LVM)]
-* RAM: 8 GB is good, more is better
+* link:/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux[ZFS on Linux]
-* Hardware RAID with batteries protected write cache (BBU) or flash
- based protection
+* link:/wiki/BTRFS[BTRFS]
-* Fast hard drives, best results with 15k rpm SAS, Raid10
+* link:/wiki/Certificate_Management[Certificate Management]
-* At least two NIC´s, depending on the used storage technology you need more
+* link:/wiki/Kernel_Samepage_Merging_(KSM)[Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)]
+endif::wiki[]
-include::getting-help.adoc[]
-include::pve-package-repos.adoc[]
+ifndef::wiki[]
-include::pve-installation.adoc[]
+include::pve-package-repos.adoc[]
include::system-software-updates.adoc[]
+include::firmware-updates.adoc[]
+
+include::pve-network.adoc[]
-Network Configuration
----------------------
+include::system-timesync.adoc[]
-Basic network setup.
+include::pve-external-metric-server.adoc[]
-image::images/cluster-nwdiag.svg[{pve} Cluster Network]
+include::pve-disk-health-monitoring.adoc[]
-image::images/node-nwdiag.svg[{pve} Default Network Setup]
+include::local-lvm.adoc[]
+include::local-zfs.adoc[]
-Local Storage
--------------
+include::local-btrfs.adoc[]
-Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+include::pvenode.adoc[]
-TODO: info about LVM.
+include::certificate-management.adoc[]
+include::system-booting.adoc[]
-ZFS on Linux
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
+include::kernel-samepage-merging.adoc[]
-TODO: info about ZFS.
+endif::wiki[]
+////
+TODO:
+
Working with 'systemd'
----------------------
TODO: explain persistent journal...
-
-
-
-
-
-
+////
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