Latest announcements for Proxmox.
  • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    Good to see proxmox adding a vsphere style interface. It should help adoption in the enterprise, especially as broadcom continues to turbo fuck vmware.

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I really like the project and have been happily running it on my home lab for quite a while. But for enterprise their pricing for enterprise use is not really cheap either. 510€/socket/year is way more than the previous vmware deal we’re running. Apparently broadcom has changed their pricing to per core which is just lunatic (it would practically add up to millions per month on our environment), so it’s interesting to see what’s going to happen when our licenses expire.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Not just per core, but with a core minimum. We had some edge servers that are low power hosts that we now pay 5x on because of the core minimum.

        Our main vmware license is still under the old pricing due to lock in, but that expires in a few years. We will be moving off vmwaew, and by then hopefully improvements like this bring proxmox into the competition.

  • monty33@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I think this is really great! I personally run a cluster at home and another offsite for backups. Would be really great to manage them under a single UI.

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Multiple clusters. You dont necessarily want all your nodes on a single cluster, and in the enterprise you often don’t.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        And if you’re a cloud service provider, you want to be able to separate your tenants, but still manage all of them.

          • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            21·
            3 days ago

            For us it was more of a liability than anything. We didn’t use any of the high availability features, and every time we needed to remove and readd a host it was a massive pain in the ass and usually broke more things. It was nice for migrating VMs around, but we don’t do that all THAT often.

            I’m curious if this datacenter will handle our shitty hosts spontaneously dying and needing to be rebuilt better.

            • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              HA is pretty much the point - and I can’t see any enterprise running without it. Maybe small, but nothing mid or large size. A sector Proxmox can get into at least in small scale (seeing this now actually), and grow.

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Wow, this might be convenient. I’ve been testing out xcp-ng with xen orchestra for a while now to deal with servers in multiple data centers. I like proxmox better though, so maybe this will be a good alternative.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    Neat! No docker image, surprising, but they still don’t like Docker over there, may try to spin one up later today.

    Hard drive: more than 8+ GB of space.

    What the hell are they storing that needs over 8GB?!