release , a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of serving as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The installation size is 770 MB.
Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully functional industrial-grade virtual server system, managed through a web interface designed for handling hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines. The distribution includes built-in tools for organizing backups of virtual environments and offers out-of-the-box clustering support, including the ability to migrate virtual environments from one node to another without downtime. Features of the web interface include: support for secure VNC console; role-based access management to all available objects (VM, storage, nodes, etc.); and support for various authentication mechanisms (MS ADS, LDAP, Linux PAM, Proxmox VE authentication).
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- The transition has been made to the Debian 10.0 "Buster" base system. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.0 based on packages from Ubuntu 19.04 with ZFS support;
- Cluster communication stack has been updated to release 3.0.2 using (knet), employing unicast by default and providing a new web widget for network configuration;
- New versions of QEMU 4.0, LXC 3.1, ZFS 0.8.1, Ceph 14.2.x have been introduced;
- The graphical interface for Ceph administration has been enhanced;
- Support for data encryption in ZFS partitions has been added. It is now possible to install the ZFS root partition on UEFI systems and NVMe devices directly from the installer;
- The GUI for QEMU has added support for live migration of guest systems tied to local disks;
- Firewall performance has been improved in cluster configurations;
- Users can define their own Cloudinit configurations;
- Support for backup at the pool level, without individually listing guest systems and automatically enabling backups for newly added guest systems in the pool has been implemented;
- A new user settings block and a session termination menu have been added to the GUI, the log viewing interface has been redesigned, and additional information on the status of guest systems (migration, backup, snapshot, lock) is now displayed in the overview tree;
- Automatic cleanup of old packages with the Linux kernel has been implemented;
- Automatic rotation of the authentication key every 24 hours has been ensured.
Source: opennet.ru
