Learning Proxmox VE

Chapter 6. Networking with Proxmox VE

In Chapter 5, Managing Virtual Disks, we looked at one of the most flexible, and therefore complex components of virtualization: secondary storage. That flexibility and concomitant complexity is because we were attentive to performance and tuning I/O throughput to do the best we can in the face of the overhead implicit in this kind of virtualization.

This chapter gives the same attention to another opportunity to optimize I/O throughput: the vNIC configuration of the virtual machine.

Since vNIC optimization involves coordinating fewer moving parts, we're going to use this opportunity to address networking with Proxmox VE in a broader context—beyond just the optimization of the virtual machine, and to the design ...