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 of networks that include Proxmox VE guests and hosts.

Throughout, we'll (strive to) maintain coherent focus on the Proxmox VE's networking model and the possibilities that model opens up for us. We'll cover...