GPO – make a domain user local administrator of a computer

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a domain user local administrator of a computer or server using Group Policy (GPO). In a previous tutorial, I explain how to do this using restricted groups, which involved creating an Active Directory group, putting the user in that group and then using the group policy, …

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Proxmox: create a private network with NAT

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to create a private network on Proxmox and configure NAT so that the LXC/CT containers and virtual computers in this network have access to the Internet. Using NAT in this situation will bring out the VM and CT to the Internet with the IP address of …

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Proxmox: supervision with Zabbix

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to monitor a Proxmox server with Zabbix. Supervision of Proxmox with Zabbix is done through the Proxmox API, which also makes it possible to report information on the VMs and CT which operates on the Hypervisor. Supervision is done by importing a model into Zabbix; it …

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Proxmox: force deletion of a virtual machine

In this tutorial, I will explain how to delete a virtual machine from the command line that cannot be deleted through the GUI. To perform a test I mounted a CIFS storage where I added a virtual machine, once the test was done I deleted the storage in Proxmox without removing the VM. When I …

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Proxmox: migrate a virtual machine into two servers

In this tutorial, we will see how to move / migrate a virtual machine between two Proxmox servers. In order to be able to move a virtual machine between two Proxmox servers, the servers must be members of the same cluster (Datacenter). In this tutorial, we will move VM 103 which is located on server …

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Guacamole: delegate authentication to Keycloak with OpenID

Presentation In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to configure Guacamole to use Keycloak with OpenID to authenticate users. Using Keycloak with Guacamole will give us additional features such as: With Keycloak and OpenID, there are two ways to manage users in Guacamole: In this tutorial, I’ll cover both. Concerning the environment Guacamole and …

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Proxmox: change the storage of a virtual disk

In this tutorial, we will see how to change the location of a virtual disk of a virtual machine or an LXC container. To illustrate this tutorial, we will change the storage location of the virtual disk of VM 103. As we can see, the disk is on local-vm storage. If we look in the …

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Proxmox: create an LXC container

In this tutorial, we will see how to create an LXC container on Proxmox. Overview of LXC LXC which allows container management on Linux. Like any containerization system, LXC containers share resources with the host that hosts them here Promox. LXC has the advantage of being much lighter than a virtual machine but having the …

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Proxmox: create a virtual machine

In this tutorial, I will show how to create a virtual computer (VM) from the Proxmox administration web interface. Create a virtual machine on Proxmox From the Web interface, go to the Proxmox server where you want to create the virtual computer and click on the Create VM 1 button. Enter the name 1 of …

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Proxmox: replication of VMs between 2 Proxmox servers

In this tutorial, we will see how to set up the replication of a virtual machine or an LXD container between two Proxmox servers. Overview of Replication Proxmox allows you to set up the replication of virtual machine disks between two Proxmox servers which are members of the same cluster (Datacenter). Replication is carried out …

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