Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

A virtual network

The virtual network diagram represents how Proxmox can handle a setup with multiple departments. All the connections between servers and users' virtual machines happen virtually without a physical network device. Using virtual bridges and vNICs, both the administrative and accounting departments can coexist on the same Proxmox cluster. Since all computing happens in the hypervisor, end users can have thin workstations to minimize cost significantly. Users can connect to their virtual machines with remote protocols, such as SPICE, VNC, or RDP.

Thin workstations or clients are very underpowered, cheap, and basic computers for the end user, providing just the essentials to connect to dedicated server resources. Since all processing ...