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Published inMay 2016
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Wasim Ahmed
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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Configuring Proxmox HA


All configurations of Proxmox HA can be done from the GUI. Thanks to the new version of HA in Proxmox. The HA feature is available by navigating to Datacenter | HA. This is the menu where we will perform all HA-related configurations and management. The following screenshot shows the Proxmox HA management interface:

As we can see, in the preceding screenshot, the HA interface has four submenus.

Status menu

This menu shows the Status of the HA configuration. There are no management options in this menu. A clean installed Proxmox cluster will show only one line item for a healthy quorum. Once the new member nodes are added to the HA configuration, this status menu will show the running states of all the nodes and the virtual machines that have HA enabled.

Groups menu

This menu is to used create and manage different groups of Proxmox for HA. The most relevant use of groups is some software solutions, or infrastructure VMs should always be running together for continuous functionality...

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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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