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Release of Proxmox VE 6.0, a distribution kit for organizing the work of virtual servers

Took place Release Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.0, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. Installation size iso image 770 Mb.

Proxmox VE provides the means to deploy a turnkey, web-based industrial grade virtual server system for managing hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines. The distribution has built-in tools for organizing virtual environment backups and clustering support available out of the box, including the ability to migrate virtual environments from one node to another without stopping work. Among the features of the web-interface: support for secure VNC-console; access control to all available objects (VM, storage, nodes, etc.) based on roles; support for various authentication mechanisms (MS ADS, LDAP, Linux PAM, Proxmox VE authentication).

Π’ new release:

  • Switched to the Debian 10.0 "Buster" package base. Linux kernel updated to version 5.0 based on packages from Ubuntu 19.04 with ZFS support;
  • Cluster communication stack Corosync updated to release 3.0.2 using as transport Kronosnet (knet), defaulting to unicast and supplying a new network configuration web widget;
  • New versions of QEMU 4.0, LXC 3.1, ZFS 0.8.1, Ceph 14.2.x are involved;
  • Improved graphical interface for Ceph administration;
  • Added support for data encryption on ZFS partitions. Now you can install a ZFS root partition on systems with UEFI and NVMe devices directly from the installer;
  • Added support for live migration of guest systems bound to local drives in the GUI for QEMU;
  • Improved firewall performance in cluster configurations;
  • Added the ability to define your own Cloudinit configurations;
  • Implemented support for backup at the level of entire pools, without a separate enumeration of guest systems and automatic inclusion of backup for new guest systems added to the pool;
  • A new block of user settings and a session end menu has been added to the GUI, the interface for viewing logs has been redesigned, additional information about the state of guest systems (migration, backup, snapshot, blocking) has been displayed in the overview tree;
  • Implemented automatic cleaning of old packages with the Linux kernel;
  • Provided automatic rotation of the authentication key every 24 hours.

Source: opennet.ru

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