At this stage, this network card has no IP address and is not really used by the Proxmox VE host. We assume that the IP address you have set for your proxmox ve host is located in the Management network Lan.īecause your system has an additional network interface, this one is listed as well in the system configuration>network page. The network brige can be compared to the “virtual switch” concept that’s used by VMware Products. If you have some experience with Proxmox Ve, you know that one of the network card will be used to create the network bridge (vmbr0). This is basically how your network interfaces have been configured so far by the Proxmox Ve setup.
You should see something similar to the following screenshot below. Setup your Proxmox Ve Infrastructure – Part 2 : Īfter your initial configuration, Go to the system Configuration (in the left menu, click system). You can use the following links to perform the initial setup of your Proxmox VE We will be using the following ip scheme for this example.Īs a first step, you will simply perform the installation of your Proxmox VE as usual. The production network will be configured with 2 different VLANs ( Vlan 20 and Vlan 30). We will call this network “Production network”. The remaining network card will be dedicated to the virtual machines traffic (see drawing above). The management network will be simply the network where the Proxmox VE Host will be located. One of the network card will be dedicated to the the “management network”. In our scenario, we will have to configure a ProxMox VE host equipped with 2 network Cards (eth0 and eth1). The following drawing provides a quick overview of the infrastructure that will be used to perform our tests. The switch should support Vland and you might need to create Trunks as well Note : In this post, we do not cover the configuration of your switch. This post will be a little bit fussy because it’s really a kind of “quick and dirty post” The scenario hasn’t been fully tested but this should be working. Because I have a limited hardware here and because I’m currently travelling, I’ll try to provide with this post a basic configuration walkthrough. Recently, I’ve received a request to provide some additional information about VLAN configuration and ProxMox VE.