Proxmox Simple SDN Quick Setup and Troubleshooting

Proxmox Simple SDN Quick Setup and Troubleshooting - get a simple SDN zone up and running quickly. This video is part of a Proxmox PVE Nested Virtualization home lab series, where we will be building out a lab environment to test Proxmox no subscription features and functionality. Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, many customers are looking elsewhere for their virtualisation requirements. This video shows how to setup Simple SDN zones, both with and without SDN, what the difference between these is and connectivity troubleshooting. Before setting up an SDN zone, you need to install the software features into Proxmox - this video explains how to do so: https://youtu.be/CT_MB-q-eOM Chapters in this video: 00:00 - Intro 00:10 - How the SDN fits into a network 02:01 - Defining the Simple SDN Zone 02:59 - Creating the VNET 04:01 - Creating the Subnet with DHCP enabled 05:09 - Applying the changes 05:16 - Assigning VMS to the SDN network 06:33 - Troubleshooting SDN DHCP Assignment 08:51 - DHCP requests ignored in system log 09:49 - Static IP address shows Layer 3 networking is 0K 11:22 - How NOT to find a dnsmasq setting (ctrl-w not supported) 12:25 - Finding the dnsmasq dhcp-authoritative 13:03 - Reboot completed and DHCP working 14:08 - Source NAT VMS and what connectivity looks like inside and outside the SDN 17:59 - Cannot ping into a source NAT network - does not work by design 19:55 - Proxmox host can route into source NAT network 20:50 - Creating a second VNET and subnet without source NAT 21:53 - Deploy a cloud init machine to the second VNET 23:42 - Testing network routing behaviour without source NAT - not routable 25:24 - Adding static route into SDN on windows host 28:41 - Testing between VNETs and Subnets 29:37 - Adding static route to the router 30:52 - Non source-NAT routing working 31:24 - Outro More videos to follow with some of the different SDNs. Follow @HouseofLogicBlog or visit https://www.houseoflogic.co.uk for more tutorials and articles.