alt Hacker NewsProxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available
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This looks like exactly what everyone wanted before VMWare decided to release that bloated pig named vcloud director.
If it scales and the proxmox team can grow their support organization, they’ll have a real shot at capturing significant vmware marketshare.
Unreadable webpage on mobile. Text goes off the screen, and if you zoom out, the overflown text is on a white background.
sadly I hoped they add:
> Off-site replication of guests for manual recovery in case of datacenter failure.
which would've been an actual killer feature
Finally, what we have all been waiting for!
Though I dont quite get the requirement for a hardware server, wouldn't it make much more sense to run this in a VM? Or is this just worded poorly?
I love Proxmox as a virtual server manager - I can't imagine running anything else as a base for a homelab. Free, powerful, VMs or CTs operating quickly, graphical shell for administration, well documented and used, ZFS is a first class citizen.
I've kind of wanted to build a three node cluster with some low end stuff to expand my knowledge of it. Now they have a datacenter controller. I'd need to build twice the nodes.
Question: Does anyone know large businesses that utilize proxmox for datacenter operations?
Another VM platform I've heard good things about (but not used personally) is XCP-ng:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCP-ng
(There's also OpenStack.)
I hope this is a signal that a third cloud option, BYOC (build your own cloud), is finally becoming practical. Yes, the physical management of racks is a massive part of managing a cloud but the software stack is honestly why AWS and the like are winning much of the time, at least for the small use cases I have been a part of. I priced out some medium servers and the cost of buying enough for load plus extras for fail over, and host them, was -way- under AWS and other cloud vendors (these were GPU loads) but the management of them was the issue. 'just spin up an instance...' is such a massive enabler for ideas. Something that gives me a viable software stack to build my own cloud on easily is a huge win for abandoning the major cloud vendors. Keep it coming!