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Release of Proxmox VE 6.4, a distribution kit for organizing the work of virtual servers

The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4 has been published, 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 Hypervisor. The size of the installation iso image is 928 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).

In the new release:

  • Synchronization with the Debian 10.9 β€œBuster” package database has been completed. Updated Linux kernel 5.4 (optional 5.11), LXC 4.0, QEMU 5.12, OpenZFS 2.0.4.
  • Added the ability to use unified backups saved in one file to restore virtual machines and containers hosted on the Proxmox Backup Server. Added new utility proxmox-file-restore.
  • Added live mode for restoring backups of virtual machines stored on the Proxmox Backup Server (allowing the VM to be activated before the restoration is completed, which continues in the background).
  • Improved integration with the Ceph PG (placement group) automatic scaling mechanism. Support for Ceph Octopus 15.2.11 and Ceph Nautilus 14.2.20 storages has been implemented.
  • Added the ability to attach a virtual machine to a specific version of QEMU.
  • Improved cgroup v2 support for containers.
  • Added container templates based on Alpine Linux 3.13, Devuan 3, Fedora 34 and Ubuntu 21.04.
  • Added the ability to save monitoring metrics in InfluxDB 1.8 and 2.0 using the HTTP API.
  • The distribution installer has improved the configuration of ZFS partitions on legacy equipment without UEFI support.
  • Added notifications about the possibility of using CephFS, CIFS and NFS for storing backups.

Source: opennet.ru

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