Proxmox, known for developing products like Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway, has released the first stable version of its new distribution — Proxmox Datacenter Manager. This includes a user interface and tools for centralized management of multiple independent clusters based on Proxmox Virtual Environment. The server backend, command-line utilities, and the new web interface are written in Rust and distributed under the AGPLv3 license. The web interface is built using a custom widget set based on the Yew web framework. The size of the installation ISO image is 1.5 GB.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager allows you to inspect all connected nodes and clusters through a single web interface, managing complex and distributed infrastructures that scale from individual local installations to geographically separated datacenters. Among other features, it enables centralized execution of tasks like live migration. of virtual machines between different clusters. The backend and interface are optimized for managing a large number of nodes; for instance, in a test deployment, management of over 5,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines was demonstrated.
Main Features:
- The system environment is based on Debian 13.2, Linux kernel 6.17, and OpenZFS 2.3.4.
- Support for authentication through LDAP, Active Directory, and OpenID Connect.
- The ability to manage systems using Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Backup Server.
- The capability to create customizable dashboards, views, and state reports in the web interface, supporting filtering and sorting by hosts, resources, resource types, and associated tags. Selective access can be granted to staff for only the necessary dashboards without opening access to other parts of the interface and administrative features.
- A centralized system for collecting, aggregating, and visualizing metrics. A unified interface for assessing the overall status of all clusters and critical resource consumption such as CPU, RAM, and I/O. Visualization of key performance indicators and metrics to identify bottlenecks and potential issues early on. Local metric caching with the ability to view the last known state in cases of failures and network disruptions.
- The ability to search for resources with filtering by type (server, VM, container), status, and tags. Support for query language in the style of Elasticsearch and GitHub.
- A user privilege management system based on RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and a unified logging system to simplify audit and operation history tracking.
- Centralized management of the lifecycle of virtual machines and containers in the virtualization infrastructure. Perform starting, stopping, and configuring virtual machines, containers, and data storage through a single interface.
- A centralized mechanism for managing the installation of updates and tracking the relevance of software versions. Support for initiating direct installation of updates and patches through the Proxmox Datacenter Manager interface. Unified SSH access to all connected hosts from a single console.
- Initial integration of a software-defined networking (SDN) stack with inter-cluster networking based on EVPN (Ethernet VPN) and creation of virtual networks (VNet).
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