Initial Proxmox installer GUI:
1. If you can, mirrored boot is a good idea. I have been using ZFS RAID 1 in PVE 3.4
2. On the network settings screen on the installer pick something other than pve.x.x as your host name. If you leave defaults, it will get confusing later
3. Ensure you will have a way to resolve hostnames in your setup. Proxmox likes this
Upon first boot:
1. Login via SSH/ console and get the right packages setup. By default Proxmox will try to use the enterprise repos. To do this first add the no subscription sources:
Then remove the enterprise source:
2. update and upgrade
1. If you can, mirrored boot is a good idea. I have been using ZFS RAID 1 in PVE 3.4
2. On the network settings screen on the installer pick something other than pve.x.x as your host name. If you leave defaults, it will get confusing later
3. Ensure you will have a way to resolve hostnames in your setup. Proxmox likes this
Upon first boot:
1. Login via SSH/ console and get the right packages setup. By default Proxmox will try to use the enterprise repos. To do this first add the no subscription sources:
Code:
# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
add:
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian wheezy pve-no-subscription
Code:
# nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list
comment out (add a # symbol in front) of this line:
# deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian wheezy pve-enterprise
Code:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y