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?
Both my current org and previous org (large) have mentioned it many times as an option, but both ended up choosing other commercial alternatives: HyperV and XenServer.
I think the missing datacenter manager was causing a lot of hesitation for those that don't manage via automation
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?
You can absolutely run it in a VM. I spun up an instance the other day in a VM and have had no problems.
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.
This seems to be more of a VCenter counterpart, vcloud director was more about the multi tenancy (and multi cloud).
But a great step nonetheless! Hope they grow too.
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?
> I'd need to build twice the nodes.
Why twice the nodes? The manager is optional -- but do you need multiples?
Also, when I looked into clusters (that I haven't implemented,) I did see qdevices. It's a way to have a cheap and weak third node just to break ties.
Both my current org and previous org (large) have mentioned it many times as an option, but both ended up choosing other commercial alternatives: HyperV and XenServer.
I think the missing datacenter manager was causing a lot of hesitation for those that don't manage via automation
I set it up for my small company 5 years ago. Couldn't be happier with it honestly.
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.)