Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.3, 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, has been released hypervisor. The size of the installation iso-image is 1.1 GB.
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:
- Synchronized with the Debian 11.5 package base. By default, the Linux kernel 5.15.74 is proposed, with release 5.19 optionally available. Updated QEMU 7.1, LXC 5.0.0, ZFS 2.1.6, Ceph 17.2.5 ("Quincy") and Ceph 16.2.10 ("Pacific").
- Added initial support for the Cluster Resource Scheduling (CRS), which searches for new nodes required for high availability, and uses the TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method to select the most optimal candidates, taking into account the requirements for memory and vCPU.
- The proxmox-offline-mirror utility has been implemented to create local mirrors of the Proxmox and Debian package repositories, which can be used to update systems on an internal network that does not have Internet access, or completely isolated systems (by placing a mirror on a USB drive).
- ZFS supports dRAID (Distributed Spare RAID) technology.
- The web interface now has the ability to bind tags to guest systems to simplify their search and grouping. Improved interface for viewing certificates. Provided the ability to add one local storage (zpool with the same name) to multiple nodes. Improved display of complex formats in api-viewer.
- Simplified binding of processor cores to virtual machines.
- Added new container templates for AlmaLinux 9, Alpine 3.16, Centos 9 Stream, Fedora 36, ββFedora 37, OpenSUSE 15.4, Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu 22.10. Updated templates for Gentoo and ArchLinux.
- Provided the ability to hot-plug USB devices to virtual machines. Added support for forwarding up to 14 USB devices to a virtual machine. By default, virtual machines use the qemu-xhci USB controller. Improved handling of forwarding PCIe devices to virtual machines.
- The Proxmox Mobile app has been updated to use the Flutter 3.0 framework and support Android 13.
Source: opennet.ru