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Customizable Post-Install Script

Post-Install · Customizable~15 minView script

Cherry-pick exactly which optimizations to apply to a Proxmox VE host. ProxMenux groups ~30 individual tools into 10 categories, each with its own checklist dialog. Same engine as Automated, but with full control over what gets applied.

When to pick Customizable

Choose this path when you already know which tweaks you want on the host — or which you definitely do not want. The script presents a checklist per category so you can pre-select, deselect or mix-and-match optimizations. Every item can be applied again later (it is idempotent) or reverted from Uninstall Optimizations.

How it compares to Automated

Customizable is a superset of the Automated script. It covers the same 13 baseline optimizations plus a long list of opt-in ones that Automated intentionally skips — things that are useful only on specific hardware (AMD fixes), specific hosting (OVH RTM), or specific workloads (IOMMU/VFIO, Ceph repo, High Availability, Fastfetch, Figurine, ZFS ARC tuning, pigz, ZFS auto-snapshot, vzdump speed limits, Open vSwitch, TCP BBR…).

The 10 categories

The Customizable script groups optimizations into 10 categories. Each category has its own checklist dialog and its own documentation page — open one of the cards below for the per-option rationale, defaults and verification steps.

Basic Settings
Repositories, system upgrade, timezone, locale, common utilities.
System
Journald, logrotate, kernel limits, memory tuning, kernel panic, fast reboots.
Virtualization
Guest agent auto-install, IOMMU/VFIO enablement for PCI passthrough.
Network
APT over IPv4, network sysctl tuning, Open vSwitch, TCP BBR, persistent interface names.
Storage
ZFS ARC sizing, ZFS auto-snapshot, vzdump backup speed limits.
Security
Disable portmapper/rpcbind to reduce the attack surface.
Customization
Bashrc colors & aliases, MOTD banner, subscription-notice removal.
Monitoring
OVH Real-Time Monitoring (only on detected OVH servers).
Performance
Parallel gzip (pigz) for faster compression in backups and transfers.
Optional
AMD CPU fixes, Fastfetch, Figurine, Ceph repo, High Availability, Log2RAM.

Mix Automated and Customizable

A common pattern: run Automated first to lock in the sensible baseline, then open Customizable and pick only the opt-in tools you care about (for example, IOMMU on a host that will do GPU passthrough). Changes are tracked independently; the Uninstall menu shows everything you have applied regardless of which path added it.

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