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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

by Wasim Ahmed
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing for hotplug

In this section, we are going to see how to configure the hotplugging option in Proxmox virtual machines. Using the hotplugging feature, we can add and remove devices or resources on a VM without restarting or power-cycling it. As of Proxmox 5.0, we can use the hotplug option for the following resources:

  • Disk
  • Network interface
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • USB

As of Proxmox 5.0, we can only increase CPU and memory but cannot decrease it. Both the disk and network interface can be equally hotplugged and unplugged. The following table shows which device types are supported on different operating systems:

Device

Kernel

Hotplug/unplug

OS

Disk

All

Both

All versions of Linux/Windows

NIC

All

Both

All versions of ...

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