# 1.0 Installation

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##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Materials / Pre-Setup:**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">USB Flash drive</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Machine with <span style="color: rgb(22, 145, 121);">[minimum requirements](https://wiki.raspberrypiclub.org/books/how-to-proxmox/page/what-is-proxmox)</span></span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">*To make a Proxmox Cluster - 2 minimum, but 3 machines are preferred (for fault tolerance and high availability)*</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Understand the schema of your network *(i.e. IP subnet, default gateway, etc.)*</span>

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##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Installing Proxmox**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Download<span style="color: rgb(22, 145, 121);"> [Proxmox Virtual Environment](https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview) </span>onto any system that you're working with</span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Create a bootable USB download using a USB Creation Tool (multiple approaches stated below) </span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(22, 145, 121);">[Rufus](https://rufus.ie/en/)</span> (Windows)</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ventoy (Windows, macOS, Linux)</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">UNetbootin (Windows, macOS, Linux) </span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**EXAMPLE USING RUFUS:**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXf-gLkB8XBYe2NBZAi3X98IQWei1HAe4CfuBn8bgn4Y_8ujl3h9E8hX3fJxmO52_GzUtDN-i7edaP8l3bWLVLKzkZmEnm1XZDotluj1qY8FiWiGA6AFptmyM9LLUQr7aeoGVyt5gw?key=-MBKtI5dZILP5P4s6ttGrhiH)**</span>

3. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Insert the newly created USB bootable into the machine that will act as a designated Proxmox server and proceed with installation as you would any other OS installation (may have to change BIOS settings to boot to USB first)</span>

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##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Installer Configurations**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Once you get to the Proxmox Installer, you'll be prompted with multiple things - examples/suggestions are given below:</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Choose "Install Proxmox VE (Terminal UI)"</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hostname (FQDN): \[PVE NAME\].local *(use different names if you're trying to cluster - doesn't matter what you name it)*</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">IP Address (CIDR): \[IP ADDRESS CIDR\] *(e.g. 10.0.0.100/16)*</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gateway Address: \[DEFAULT GATEWAY\] *(e.g. 10.0.0.1)*</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">DNS Server Address: \[DNS SERVER\] *(i.e. 10.0.0.1 or public DNS servers: Cloudflare - 8.8.8.8, Google - 1.1.1.1)*</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER CONFIGURATIONS:**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">![image.png](https://wiki.raspberrypiclub.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/scaled-1680-/Wa1image.png)</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">*In this Proxmox example, the node names follows a theme from the Alien franchise*</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">*Last Updated: 2/22/2025  
Contributors: Lilian, Vivian* </span>