Proxmox Post Install Steps

This is just a list of everything that I do every time that I install Proxmox. It is not mandatory to do each step.

As more features come out I will continue to update this post to include them.

Step 1 (Highly Recommended)

Run the following Post install Script

This will enable the non-subscription repositories as well as update the system.

Step 2 (Optional)

Deleting the local-lvm drive and regaining that storage.

Delete local-lvm manually from web interface under the following path Datacenter > Storage.

Next Run the following commands within the nodes shell.

lvremove /dev/pve/data
lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root
resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root

Check to make sure that the local storage has reclaimed all of the storage that was used for the local-lvm drive.

Step 3 (Highly Recommended)

Make sure IOMMU is enabled on ever node.

First go into the grub configuration on each node

nano /etc/default/grub

Next depending on your systems CPU you will do the following:

You will see a area in the file: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" after the quiet and in the quotation marks add the following if it is an Intel CPU system intel_iommu=on or amd_iommu=on if it is a AMD CPU system.

After that Save and exit and run the following command:

update-grub

Reboot your system once it is done.

To validate you can run the following commands:

dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU
dmesg | grep 'remapping'

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