1.0 Installation

USB Flash drive
Machine with minimum requirements
- To make a Proxmox Cluster - 2 minimum, but 3 machines are preferred (for fault tolerance and high availability)
Understand the schema of your network (i.e. IP subnet, default gateway, etc.)

Download Proxmox Virtual Environment onto any system that you're working with
Create a bootable USB download using a USB Creation Tool (multiple approaches stated below)
- Rufus (Windows)
- Ventoy (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- UNetbootin (Windows, macOS, Linux)

EXAMPLE USING RUFUS:

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)

*PAT= placeholder name

Once you get to the Proxmox Installer, you'll be prompted with multiple things - examples/suggestions are given below:

Choose "Install Proxmox VE (Terminal UI)"
Hostname (FQDN): PAT.local (use different names if you're trying to cluster - doesn't matter what you name it)
IP Address (CIDR): x.x.x.x/y (e.g. 10.10.0.100/16)
Gateway Address: x.x.x.x.1
DNS Server Address: x.x.x.1 (public DNS servers: Cloudflare - 8.8.8.8, Google - 1.1.1.1)

EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER CONFIGURATIONS:

In this Proxmox example, the node names follows a theme from the Alien franchise

Last Updated: 2/20/2025
BY: Lilian & Vivian