Reconsidering ProxMox
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For those not aware, ProxMox is a virtualization platform that basically layers a software appliance with a web GUI (and a REST API) on top of KVM, LXC, DRBD, CEPH, ZFS and lots of other features and provides an all in one virtualization platform that includes backups and high availability all in a single, open source package.
A number of years ago, probably close to a decade, when ProxMox first came onto a lot of our radar, we had some pretty nasty run ins with the company behind it with using employees to do fake review posts and the company got really nasty when they got caught doing this with the owner joining the community just to harass and threaten people.
It's been many years of things being quiet, and while the behaviour was bad, everyone has a bad day (or week.) No similar problems have arisen in the years since and the product is open source and does not require that you engage the vendor for anything.
With time having passed, is it time to give them a second chance? The project contains so many cool features and things you rarely find on the KVM and LXC platforms, does it make sense to give it another go?
What experiences have people had? People using ProxMox seem mostly pretty happy with it.
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While waiting on responses, we are deploying it to a test server to see how the latest 6.1 is stacking up.
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Seen a lot of people on Reddit who love it. Myself I tried it maybe 3-4 months ago for giggles and felt too removed from the core OS/KVM to really lean anything. I am more in a learning phase so decided to pass for now.
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I tried it out about a year ago albeit very briefly. Wanted to actually put some effort into it but had to use the host for another project.
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It's been a long time since I used it (like 2014) but it worked really well back then. I do more with containers now so I haven't looked into using it at home.
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@jt1001001 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:
Seen a lot of people on Reddit who love it. Myself I tried it maybe 3-4 months ago for giggles and felt too removed from the core OS/KVM to really lean anything. I am more in a learning phase so decided to pass for now.
I'm specifically evaluating for deployments primarily in small SMBs managed remotely by MSPs. So nothing intensive, but places where the built in backups and web interface are huge features.
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The built-in backup feature was the main reason I was interested.
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Proxmox VE backups are always full backups
That seems annoying. . .
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@DustinB3403 you seem annoying
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@VoIP_n00b said in Reconsidering ProxMox:
@DustinB3403 you seem annoying
Only have full backups, while functional is a limitation. I know of many places that can't wait minutes - hours at a time for a backup to operate so CR style backups are a must.
Also fuck you @VoIP_n00b starting with the personal attacks.
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@DustinB3403 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:
Also fuck you @VoIP_n00b starting with the personal attacks.
Love you too
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@DustinB3403 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:
Proxmox VE backups are always full backups
That seems annoying. . .
Not ideal, but with compression and dedupe, not the problem it seems to be. And it is far less risky that continuous partials that always depend on rehydration.
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@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:
Not ideal, but with compression and dedupe, not the problem it seems to be. And it is far less risky that continuous partials that always depend on rehydration.
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Also, it's "Proxmox" no uppercase M
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I always like how you can setup permissions for users, groups, pools and roles. Also use different servers for authentication.
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During the Proxmox installation, it’s nice to options for file system like ext4, xfs and zfs if you are into zfs.
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Having the option to enable Two Factor Authentication is plus if the WebUI is accessible from a public IP.
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Proxmox is great been using it for a couple of years with little to no issues. The new Ceph wizard makes setting up Ceph quick and easy. It has Incremental backups but I prefer to just replicate VM to another node.
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I'm a SMB and been using it in production for 7 years. 40 VM's with a 3 node cluster. NFS backed - yeah I know IPD lol. Looking to fix that soon but it's been rock solid.
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I use proxmox as well, I like it.
