See how Proxmox VE runs your machines, one mechanism at a time.

Debian, KVM, LXC, pmxcfs, the API

Two kinds of guests, side by side

Linked clones and first-boot config

Corosync votes and /etc/pve

Fencing, watchdogs, recovery

Moving RAM while the guest runs

How a packet leaves a VM

VLAN, QinQ, VXLAN, EVPN

Datacenter, node and guest rules

Dir, LVM-thin, ZFS, Ceph, NFS…

vdevs, RAIDZ, ARC, replication

OSDs, PGs, CRUSH and recovery

vzdump modes, chunks, dedup

Tokens, ACLs, Terraform

Where CCM and CSI plug in