X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-docs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=sysadmin.adoc;h=dd43f731b09f9ab646c47fc2fa8f748936c09ef0;hp=741e3a2b4f837840a3c4c7d8fc345d52aa639be0;hb=HEAD;hpb=5eba07434fd010e7b96459da2a5bb676a62fe8b1 diff --git a/sysadmin.adoc b/sysadmin.adoc index 741e3a2..dd43f73 100644 --- a/sysadmin.adoc +++ b/sysadmin.adoc @@ -1,106 +1,89 @@ +[[chapter_system_administration]] Host System Administration ========================== -include::attributes.txt[] +ifndef::manvolnum[] +:pve-toplevel: +endif::manvolnum[] + +The following sections will focus on common virtualization tasks and explain the +{pve} specifics regarding the administration and management of the host machine. + +{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. + +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[]). -{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 provides a -comprehensive introduction to the Debian operating system (see -xref:Hertzog13[]). - -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. - -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. - -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. - -System requirements -------------------- - -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. +ifdef::wiki[] -{pve} can use local storage (DAS), SAN, NAS and also distributed -storage (Ceph RBD). For details see xref:chapter-storage[chapter storage]. +See Also +-------- -Minimum requirements, for evaluation -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +* link:/wiki/Package_Repositories[Package Repositories] -* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64) +* link:/wiki/Network_Configuration[Network Configuration] -* RAM: 1 GB RAM +* link:/wiki/System_Software_Updates[System Software Updates] -* Hard drive +* link:/wiki/Firmware_Updates[Firmware Updates] -* One NIC +* link:/wiki/Host_Bootloader[Host Bootloader] -Recommended system requirements -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +* link:/wiki/Time_Synchronization[Time Synchronization] -* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), Multi core CPU recommended +* link:/wiki/External_Metric_Server[External Metric Server] -* RAM: 8 GB is good, more is better +* link:/wiki/Disk_Health_Monitoring[Disk Health Monitoring] -* Hardware RAID with batteries protected write cache (``BBU'') or flash - based protection +* link:/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)[Logical Volume Manager (LVM)] -* Fast hard drives, best results with 15k rpm SAS, Raid10 +* link:/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux[ZFS on Linux] -* At least two NICs, depending on the used storage technology you need more +* link:/wiki/BTRFS[BTRFS] -ifdef::wiki[] +* link:/wiki/Certificate_Management[Certificate Management] -See Also --------- +* link:/wiki/Kernel_Samepage_Merging_(KSM)[Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)] -* link:/wiki/Getting_Help[Getting Help] +endif::wiki[] -* link:/wiki/Package_Repositories[Package Repositories] -* link:/wiki/Installation[Installation] +ifndef::wiki[] -* link:/wiki/Network_Configuration[Network Configuration] +include::pve-package-repos.adoc[] -* link:/wiki/System_Software_Updates[System Software Updates] +include::system-software-updates.adoc[] -* link:/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)[Logical Volume Manager (LVM)] +include::firmware-updates.adoc[] -* link:/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux[ZFS on Linux] +include::pve-network.adoc[] -endif::wiki[] +include::system-timesync.adoc[] +include::pve-external-metric-server.adoc[] -ifndef::wiki[] +include::pve-disk-health-monitoring.adoc[] -include::getting-help.adoc[] +include::local-lvm.adoc[] -include::pve-package-repos.adoc[] +include::local-zfs.adoc[] -include::pve-installation.adoc[] +include::local-btrfs.adoc[] -include::system-software-updates.adoc[] +include::pvenode.adoc[] -include::pve-network.adoc[] +include::certificate-management.adoc[] -include::local-lvm.adoc[] +include::system-booting.adoc[] -include::local-zfs.adoc[] +include::kernel-samepage-merging.adoc[] endif::wiki[]