Complete the setup wizard

Overview

• The setup wizard runs in your browser before you log in — it opens automatically the first time you visit the appliance's web address.
• It walks you through four things: activating your licence, creating your admin account, connecting your first Proxmox VE cluster, and setting that cluster's quotas and networking.
• When you finish, the appliance provisions itself (this can take a few minutes) and returns you to the sign-in page.

Before you begin

• You have installed the appliance and opened its web address — see How to install VMease (click here)
• Your VMease Licence Key.
• For your first cluster: a Proxmox VE host IP address and its root password, reachable from the appliance.
• If you use a Proxmox Backup Server (PBS): its root password (or you can turn backups off).

Activate your licence

1. On the Activation step, enter your Licence Key.
2. Select Next.

Expected result: the wizard moves on to Account Information.

Create your admin account

1. On the Account step, enter your Company Name — this names your root account.
2. Enter the Admin Email, then set and confirm the Admin Password.
3. The password must be at least 12 characters and include an uppercase letter, a number, and a special character.
4. Select Next.

Expected result: your administrator login is created — you will use this email and password to sign in later. On a VMease appliance the network step is pre-filled and read-only, so the wizard goes straight to connecting your cluster.

Connect your first cluster

1. On the Cluster step, enter a Site Name for this location.
2. Under the Proxmox VE cluster, enter the Host IP Address and Host Root Password of your Proxmox host.
3. Leave Enable Backups on and enter your Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) root password, or turn Enable Backups off if you are not using one.
4. Select Scan Cluster.

Expected result: VMease connects to the host and discovers the cluster — you can watch the scan progress — then continues to a confirmation screen. Review it and continue.

Set compute and storage quotas

1. On the Compute step, set the power-on limits for vCPU and RAM, or tick Infinite for no limit.
2. On the Storage step, keep the storage devices you want to use and set each pool's size in GB.
3. Mark one device with Send Firewall Usage Here (required to finish).

Expected result: the root quotas for this cluster are set.

Configure networking and finish

1. On the Networking step, select the VM bridge NIC(s) to use and give each a friendly name (the default is Guest Traffic).
2. On the Check step, review everything.
3. To add more clusters, select Configure Another Cluster; otherwise select Finish Setup.

Expected result: setup is submitted and the appliance finishes provisioning — this can take a few minutes.

Sign in

1. When provisioning completes, the wizard returns you to the sign-in page.
2. Sign in with the Admin Email and Password you created on the Account step.

Expected result: you are signed in to the VMease WebUI. For the sign-in details, see Logging in (click here).

Next steps

• Create your first VM — storage pool, network, and VM (click here)
• How VMease works — why actions run in the background via the Task Manager (click here)