2 days (16 hours total)
Day 1 – Advanced Virtualization & Networking
1. Advanced Cluster Architecture
Short: Internal cluster mechanics and reliability.
You cover quorum logic, corosync layers, best-practice node counts, link redundancy, and failure scenarios.
2. High Availability Deep Dive
Short: How HA really works behind the curtain.
Resource fencing, watchdog behavior, failover policies, and analyzing HA logs.
3. Advanced Storage Integration
Short: Storage backends beyond the defaults.
Ceph internals, ZFS tuning, NFS/SMB performance tuning, multipath, iSCSI target design, and storage benchmarking.
4. Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Short: Complex multi-tenant networking.
VXLAN, VLAN-aware bridges, firewall zones, rate-limits, and routing inside Proxmox SDN.
5. Advanced Backups & Replication
Short: Efficient, fast, safe data protection.
PBS deep dive, datastore tuning, verify performance, retention strategies, and cross-site replication.
Day 2 – Automation, Scaling & Special Platforms
6. API, CLI Automation & Scripting
Short: Automating everything.
pvesh, API tokens, automation flow, bulk VM ops, idempotent scripts, and secure API usage.
7. Proxmox in Enterprise Environments
Short: Architecting for large scale.
Multi-site design, WAN clusters, backup segregation, node role assignment, and hardware recommendations.
8. Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
Short: Finding and eliminating bottlenecks.
CPU scheduling, NUMA awareness, ballooning tuning, I/O problems, network RX/TX issues, and log interpretation.
9. LXC Advanced Concepts
Short: Containers without limits.
Unprivileged mapping, nesting, GPU passthrough, filesystem overrides, soft and hard limits.
10. GPU/PCIe Passthrough
Short: For AI, ML, high-end graphics.
IOMMU groups, VFIO settings, BIOS quirks, multiple GPU mapping, and troubleshooting passthrough failures.
11. Advanced Ceph Operations
Short: Deep Ceph admin.
OSD placement groups tuning, crushmap editing, failure testing, rebalancing strategies, and monitoring.
12. Disaster Recovery & Multi-Site Design
Short: Planning for catastrophe.
Cross-cluster backups, failover site design, DNS automation, data center abstraction, and documented runbooks.
13. Security Hardening
Short: Make the cluster bulletproof.
Access models, token separation, firewall deep rules, certificate rotation, updates strategy, and audit logging.