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Installing Proxmox VE on Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers

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12 May 2025
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Abstract

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a comprehensive, open-source server platform for enterprise virtualization, built to address the performance and scalability demands of modern IT environments. When deployed on Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure, it delivers tight integration of the KVM hypervisor for running Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs), alongside Linux OS Containers (LXC) for lightweight container-based workloads. It also includes built-in software-defined storage via Ceph and virtualized networking capabilities consolidated within a single management framework.


The integrated, web-based user interface provides centralized control, allowing administrators to manage compute resources, configure high availability (HA) resources, and perform backup and disaster recovery operations with ease.


Lenovo ThinkSystem servers enhance Proxmox VE deployments through Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC), which delivers integrated out-of-band hardware-level management features such as remote power control, remote control & administration, advanced monitoring & alerting, and OS watchdog functionality. This enables a complete, end-to-end solution from bare-metal to full virtualization management.

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