Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video I take a look at over-provisioning in Proxmox. Over-provisioning is when more resourves are assigned to VMs than exist on a host. In this video I go over different resources that can be over provisioned like CPU, Memory, Disk and Network and show how to setup over provisioning for the resource and how to know if your over-provisioning too much for a given resource.

00:00 Intro
00:34 What is Over-provisioning
04:56 CPU
10:20 Memory
15:40 Disk IO
20:03 Disk Space
27:22 Network
28:36 Conclusion