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Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Updating Proxmox through the GUI


In this section, we will see how to update a Proxmox node through the GUI. Proxmox checks for daily updates and displays relevant packages for which updates are available based on subscription levels. The update menu in the Proxmox GUI can be accessed by selecting the node and clicking on the Update tabbed menu. The following screenshot shows the available update packages for our example node pm4-1:

In the preceding screenshot, we can see that the node pm4-1 has 74 updates available. The update feature shows the name of the package, the current version installed, the new available version, and the description of the package. To start the update or upgrade process, we simply need to click on Upgrade. It will open the node shell on the default console, such as noVNC, and will start the update process. Depending on the packages being updated, it may be necessary to act on some prompts. The following screenshot shows a typical prompt waiting for a response during...

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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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