Private cloud hands-on with Proxmox

- Creating your own private cloud is no longer out of reach…thanks to many free or inexpensive software solutions.…However, words like free and inexpensive…are quite misleading…because the expenses can increase very quickly…when you scale things up by adding more servers…and try to maintain…the software and hardware professionally.…However, free and open source solutions are excellent…for teaching and learning purposes.…

Our learning goal here is to get a good feel…for what it's like to run your own private cloud server…and it doesn't take too much to try out different solutions.…All you need is a computer you can completely wipe out…to install the cloud computing software of your choice.…The process of setting up your own private cloud…is not that different from building a public cloud.…The only major difference is who actually uses the system.…

If the server is dedicated to one organization,…it is private.…If you share the same server among multiple organizations,…then it's public.…The most important piece…of cloud computing software is hypervisor…