Proxmox

Proxmox è una compagnia commerciale che offre prodotti specializzati basati su Debian GNU/Linux, in particolare Proxmox Virtual Environment e Proxmox Mail Gateway. Proxmox Virtual Environment è una piattaforma open-source di virtualizzazione  mentre Proxmox Mail Gateway è un gateway per mail con anti-spam e anti-virus features. I prodotti sono gratuiti e si paga solo il supporto.

Versione 6.2

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

• Based on Debian Buster (10.4)
• Ceph Nautilus (14.2.9)
• Kernel 5.4 LTS
• LXC 4.0
• Qemu 5.0
• ZFS 0.8.3

• Web interface
  • Allow to deploy DNS based Let’s Encrypt (ACME) certificates
  • Allow admins to see the full granted permission/privilege tree for a user
  • Add experimental Software Defined Network (SDN) GUI and documentation, based on modern mainline Linux Kernel network technology
  • Allow to collapse the Notes sub-panel in the guest summary panels. One can do this permanently or automatically if empty through the user settings.
  • Add ‘Creation Date’ column for storage content, allowing one, for example, to comfortably find backups from a certain date
  • Add device node creation to Container feature selection
  • Full support for up to 8 corosync links
  • Automatic guest console reload on VM/CT startup
  • Add Arabic translation
  • Allow seamlessly changing the language, without logging out and logging in again

• Container
  • LXC 4.0.2 and lxcfs 4.0.3 with initial full cgroupv2 support by Proxmox VE
  • Improve support for modern systemd based Containers
  • Improve default settings to support hundreds to thousands* of parallel running Containers per node (* thousands only with simple distributions like Alpine Linux)
  • Allow creating templates on directory-based storage

• Backup/Restore
  • Support for the highly efficient and fast Zstandard (zstd) compression

• Improvements to the HA stack
  • Allow to destroy virtual guests under HA control when purge is set

• QEMU
  • Fixed EFI disk behavior on block-based storage (see known issues)
  • VirtIO Random Number Generator (RNG) support for VMs
  • Custom CPU types with user-defined flags and QEMU/KVM settings
  • Improved machine type versioning and compatibility checks
  • Various stability fixes, especially for backups and IO-Threads
  • Migration:
    • Enable support for Live-Migration with replicated disks
    • Allow specifying target storage for offline mode
    • Allow specifying multiple source-target storage pairs (for now, CLI only)
    • Improve behavior with unused disks
    • Secure live-migration with local disks

• General improvements for virtual guests
  • Handle ZFS volumes with non-standard mount point correctly

• Cluster
  • Improve lock contention during high frequency config modifications
  • Add versioning for cluster join
  • Enable full support for up to 8 corosync links

• Ceph
  • Easier uninstall process, better informing which actions need to be taken.

• Storage
  • Storage migration: introduce allow-rename option and return new volume ID if a volume with the same ID is already allocated on the target storage
  • Support the ‘snippet’ content type for GlusterFS storage
  • Bandwidth limitations are now also available for SAMBA/CIFS based storage
  • Handle ZFS volumes with non-standard mount point correctly
  • Improve metadata calculation when creating a new LVM-Thin pool
  • Improve parsing of NVMe wearout metrics

• User and permission management
  • LDAP Sync users and groups automatically into Proxmox VE
  • LDAP mode LDAP+STARTTLS
  • Allow to add and manage authentication realms through the ‘pveum’ CLI tool
  • Full support and integration for API Tokens
    • Shared or separated privileges
    • Token lifetime
    • Revoke it anytime without impacting your user login

• Documentation
  • Update hypervisor migration guide in the wiki
  • Reducing number of Ceph placement groups is possible
  • Improve layout, use a left-side based table-of-content

• Various improvements
  • Firewall: make config parsing more robust and improve ICMP-type filtering

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• ISO (862MB): http://download.proxmox.com/iso/proxmox-ve_6.2-1.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://www.proxmox.com/

Screenshot

proxmox 4.2

Conclusioni

Il supporto commerciale inizia a partire da 64,90€.