NAME

datacenter.cfg - Proxmox VE Datacenter Configuration

SYNOPSYS

/etc/pve/datacenter.cfg

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg is a configuration file for Proxmox VE. It contains cluster wide default values used by all nodes.

File Format

The file uses a simple colon separated key/value format. Each line has the following format:

OPTION: value

Blank lines in the file are ignored, and lines starting with a # character are treated as comments and are also ignored.

Options

console: (applet | html5 | vv)

Select the default Console viewer. You can either use the builtin java applet (VNC), an external virt-viewer comtatible application (SPICE), or an HTML5 based viewer (noVNC).

email_from: string

Specify email address to send notification from (default is root@$hostname)

fencing: (both | hardware | watchdog) (default=watchdog)

Set the fencing mode of the HA cluster. Hardware mode needs a valid configuration of fence devices in /etc/pve/ha/fence.cfg. With both all two modes are used.

Warning hardware and both are EXPERIMENTAL & WIP
http_proxy: http://.*

Specify external http proxy which is used for downloads (example: http://username:password@host:port/)

keyboard: (da | de | de-ch | en-gb | en-us | es | fi | fr | fr-be | fr-ca | fr-ch | hu | is | it | ja | lt | mk | nl | no | pl | pt | pt-br | sl | sv | tr)

Default keybord layout for vnc server.

language: (de | en)

Default GUI language.

max_workers: integer (1 - N)

Defines how many workers (per node) are maximal started on actions like stopall VMs or task from the ha-manager.

migration_unsecure: boolean

Migration is secure using SSH tunnel by default. For secure private networks you can disable it to speed up migration.

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