Proxmox Post-Install Configuration

Introduction

Proxmox installation and configuration could seem easy, while there might be some services you don’t actually need to have enabled and this actually might save you some resources.

Proxmox Installation

Installing Proxmox is fairly easy and straightforward, there’s only a few things I’d point out for better usage experience.

Your E-mail

I’d strongly suggest you to put your real E-mail in here while installing Proxmox, because later on, you can configure E-mail notifications for your homelab services and this will come handy, instead of having to replace it when you need it.

Static IP

One another recommendation would be to assign your Proxmox instance a static IP. Most routers easily allow you to assign a static IP to a certain MAC address so that it won’t be assigned to anyone via DHCP in case your Proxmox instance releases the IP.

Post-Install Configuration

Grab yourself a Post-Install Script and execute it in your node’s shell.

Going Through The Post-Install Script

Most of the stuff you’re going to go through is obvious, things like updating packages or disabling subscription nag when you log-in to your Proxmox instance. But there are also some caveats I’d like to go through.

Disabling Enterprise Repository

Most likely, you’re gonna be running Proxmox community-edition, so you don’t need the Enterprise repository to be enabled.

High Availability

Just as the script tells you, if you’re gonna be using only a single node of Proxmox, e.g single server, you don’t need High Availability to be enabled and disabling it will save your system’s resources.

The End

Other steps related to the script are pretty much obvious choice, so we’re done here.

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