Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.1, 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 1.2 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:
- Synchronization with the Debian 12.2 package database has been completed. The Linux kernel has been updated to release 6.5. The new releases of QEMU 8.1.2, LXC 5.0.2 and OpenZFS 2.2.0 (with the transfer of fixes from the 2.2.1 branch) are involved.
- A package for creating software-defined networks (SDN, Software-Defined Networking) has been added to the basic delivery, in which network management is separated from the data transmission layer and is configured programmatically. Using SDN in Proxmox VE, you can create multi-tenant virtualized zones and networks (VNets), deployed at the data center level and managed directly through the Web interface. It supports the creation of both isolated virtual private networks for individual cluster nodes and complex overlay networks spanning multiple clusters.
- Added support for verified booting in UEFI Secure Boot mode, which ensures that only verified components with correct digital signatures are used when booting. For UEFI Secure Boot, a shim bootloader is provided, certified by a digital signature that is accepted by most UEFI hardware devices.
- A flexible notification system is proposed, supporting notification forwarding based on specified matching rules, allowing the selection of a delivery method depending on the type of event associated with the notification. Various notification delivery methods are supported, including the local Postfix mail server, external SMTP servers with authentication, and servers Gotify messaging delivery.
- Added support for creating repositories based on Ceph 18.2.0 “Reef” and Ceph 17.2.7 “Quincy” releases (the Ceph version used is selected during the installation process).
Source: opennet.ru
