Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE has no tile of its own: it is the Debian tile, version PVE 9. Where the web interface is, the subscription notice, and the addresses your virtual machines need.
Proxmox VE turns the dedicated server into a hypervisor: KVM virtual machines and LXC containers, managed from a web interface, on a Debian base. It is the usual answer when one physical machine has to carry several independent systems.
There is no Proxmox tile in the reinstall grid. Looking for one and not finding it is the single most common way to conclude, wrongly, that we do not offer it.
Install it from the panel
In the client area, open your server, then Reinstall the server. Pick the Debian tile, open its version list and choose the one you want, then fill in the partitioning, the software RAID, the hostname and the password below the grid. The form itself is described in reinstalling your OS.
The version to pick in that list is PVE 9. That entry installs Proxmox VE, not a plain Debian.
Careful
A reinstall erases every drive in the machine. There is no undo and we keep no copy: take your backups off the server first.
Reaching the interface
The machine comes back with Proxmox installed and its web interface on port 8006:
https://<your-ip>:8006Log in as root, with the password from the reinstall form, on the Linux PAM realm. The certificate is self-signed at this stage, so the browser warns once.
Note
Port 8006 is the web interface, not SSH. If it does not answer, check that nothing on the machine is filtering it before assuming the install failed, and watch the boot on the console.
The subscription notice
Proxmox warns at every login that there is no subscription. That is a notice, not a limitation: the installed version is complete. A subscription buys the enterprise repository and Proxmox support, and is bought from Proxmox.
If apt update fails on the enterprise repository, that is the same thing seen from the shell: the repository requires a subscription. Either attach one, or use the no-subscription repository instead.
Addresses for your virtual machines
Proxmox bridges the guests onto vmbr0. Each guest that has to be reachable from the outside needs an address of its own, and those are additional IP addresses on your service.
Say so when you request them: addresses meant for virtual machines are not set up the same way as a second address on the host itself.
Storage
A default install gives you local for ISO images, templates and backups, and local-lvm for the disks of the guests. Both live on the same physical drives, so a software RAID chosen at reinstall time is what protects them. Backups of the guests belong somewhere other than the machine running them.
Good to know
Upload your own installer images from the Proxmox interface itself, under local then ISO Images. The panel's own ISO Upload tab is for installing the host, not the guests.
Where to go next
- First connection: your own user, SSH keys, password logins off.
- IP addresses: configuring the additional addresses on the fresh system.
- The console: watching the install, and getting in when the network does not answer.
Reviewed on September 15, 2026