• Proxmox VE Providers
  • Adding a Proxmox Provider

Proxmox VE Providers

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease.

Adding a Proxmox Provider

After initial installation and creation of a ManageIQ environment, add a Proxmox provider to the appliance.

1. Browse to menu: Compute > Infrastructure > Providers.

2. Click Configuration, then click (Add a New Infrastructure Provider).

3. Select Proxmox from the Type list.

4. Enter the Name of the provider to add. The Name is how the device is labeled in the console.

5. Select the appropriate Zone for the provider. By default, the zone is set to default.

6. Under Endpoints in the Default tab, configure the following:
   • Select Verify or Do not verify for SSL Verification to specify whether to authenticate securely to the provider using SSL. This will default to Verify

   • Enter the Host Name or IP address(IPv4 or IPv6) of the provider.

     Important:

     The Hostname must be a unique fully qualified domain name.

   • Enter the API Port if your provider uses a non-standard port for access. This will default to 8006

   • Enter the user name in the Username field.

   • Enter the password in the Password field.

   • Click Validate to confirm ManageIQ can connect to the Proxmox provider.
7. Click Add to finish adding the Proxmox provider.