Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4, 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:
- Improvements in the web interface:
- Implemented the ability to enable a dark theme.
- In the resource tree, guests can now be sorted by name instead of just VMID.
- The web interface and API provide detailed information about the Ceph OSD (Object Storage Daemon).
- Added the ability to download task execution logs in the form of text files.
- Enhanced options for editing jobs related to backup.
- Added support for adding local storage types hosted on other cluster nodes.
- A node selection interface has been added to the Add Storage wizard for ZFS, LVM, and LVM-Thin storage.
- Automatic forwarding of HTTP connections to HTTPS is provided.
- Improved interface translation into Russian.
- Continued development of the cluster resource scheduler (CRS, Cluster Resource Scheduling), which searches for new nodes needed to ensure high availability. The new version adds the ability to automatically rebalance virtual machines and containers at startup, and not just during recovery.
- A CRM command has been added to the High Availability Manager (HA Manager) to manually put an active node into maintenance mode without requiring a reboot. In preparation for the implementation of a dynamic load planning system in the cluster, the resources (CPU, memory) of various HA services (virtual machines, containers) were unified.
- Added "content-dirs" option to storage to override content type in certain subdirectories (e.g. iso images, container templates, backups, guest disks, etc.).
- ACL calculation has been redesigned and performance of access control rules has been significantly improved on systems with very large user counts or large ACLs.
- Added the ability to disable notification of package updates.
- The installation ISO provides the ability to select a time zone during the installation process to simplify the synchronization of geographically separated hosts or clusters.
- Added support for riscv32 and riscv64 architectures in LXC containers.
- Updated system versions in container templates for amd64 architecture.
- Synchronized with the Debian 11.6 package base. By default, the Linux 5.15 kernel is proposed, with the 6.2 release optionally available. Updated QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, ZFS 2.1.9, Ceph Quincy 17.2.5, Ceph Pacific 16.2.11.
Source: opennet.ru