Proxmox Virtual Environment, or Proxmox VE, open source server virtualization environment.
The release of the new version of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4, which is a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux intended for 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 the Citrix hypervisor.
Proxmox VE provides the means to implement a virtual server system turnkey web-based industrial-grade software to manage hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines.
The distribution has built-in tools for organizing backups of virtual environments 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).
Main new features of Proxmox VE 7.4
In this new version that is presented, various web interface improvements, of which it stands out that the ability to enable a dark theme, In addition to that in the resource tree, the guests can now be sorted by name instead of just VMID.
Another change that stands out is that the web interface and API provide detailed information about Ceph OSD (Object Storage Daemon), as well as adding the ability to download task execution logs in the form of text files.
In addition to this, it is also noted that the new version arrives in sync with the base Debian 11.6 package. By default, the Linux kernel 5.15, with version 6.2 optionally available. Updated QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, ZFS 2.1.9, Ceph Quincy 17.2.5, Ceph Pacific 16.2.11.
Also highlighted in Proxmox VE 7.4 is the continued development of the cluster resource scheduler (CRS, Cluster Resource Scheduling), which looks for the new nodes needed to ensure high availability. The new version adds the ability to automatically rebalance virtual machines and containers at startup stage, and not just during recovery.
Added a CRM command to the High Availability Manager to manually put an active node into maintenance mode without requiring a reboot. In preparation for the implementation of a dynamic load scheduling system in the cluster, the resources (CPU, memory) of various HA services (virtual machines, containers) were unified.
Added the "content-dirs" option to the repository to override the content-type in certain subdirectories (for example, iso images, container templates, backups, guest disks, etc.).
The ACL calculation has been redesigned and the performance of access control rules on systems with a large number of users or large ACLs has been significantly improved.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- 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 facilitate synchronization of geographically separated hosts or clusters.
- Added support for riscv32 and riscv64 architectures in LXC containers (requires installation of qemu-user-static and binfmt-support packages).
- Updated system versions in container templates for the amd64 architecture.
- Improved options for editing backup related jobs.
- Added support for adding local storage types hosted on other cluster nodes.
- Added a node selection interface to the Add Storage wizard for ZFS, LVM, and LVM-Thin storage.
- Automatic forwarding of HTTP to HTTPS connections is provided.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it About this new version of the distribution, you can check the details in the announcement. The link is this.
Proxmox VE 7.4 Download and Support
Proxmox VE 7.3 is now available for download on its website official, the size of the installation iso image is 1.1 GB. The link is this.
On the other hand, also this Proxmox Server Solutions offers business support starting at € 80 per year per processor.