Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 (stable) is out

10 months ago by dude to c/proxmox

We're very excited to present the first stable release of our new Proxmox Datacenter Manager! Proxmox Datacenter Manager is an open-source, centralized management solution to oversee and manage multiple, independent Proxmox-based environments. It provides an aggregated view of all your...

ikidd 6 points 10 months ago

single pane of glass

God, I want to hit someone so hard right now...

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dbtng 3 points 10 months ago

for centralized, enterprise-wide visibility and continual business transformation to the agile hyperscale agentic industry of ... um ... i lost track.

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possiblylinux127 1 point 10 months ago

Why?

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spitfire 2 points 10 months ago

Corp0 speak

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NotSteve_ 5 points 10 months ago

Is this worth setting up in a homelab context? I have two VE nodes and one Backup server and I kind of want to play around with this but I feel like it'll be way overkill lol

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dbtng 2 points 10 months ago

Nah. Spin it up. It was a buggy POS when I last tried it, so don't expect too much. But what are ya doing homelab for? Mostly people want to learn and play. You should play with this toy.

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jj4211 2 points 10 months ago

One if the things I appreciated about proxmox is that each instance in a cluster provides an interface for all members of the cluster. Thus i would say this concept makes zero sense for a few systems in one place.

Contrast with VMware where you got stuck with vcenter if you had more than a single hypervisor.

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dbtng 1 point 10 months ago

vCenter itself wasn't really useful until version 4.x or so. It got a lot more modern at 5.5, the dawn of the recognizable vCenter, but up to that point people considered vCenter optional.

In much the same fashion, this PDM is just a bolt-on addition right now, nearly useless.
But its gonna become a locus for service management, and it will eventually be an integral piece of your cluster.

I would like to see PDM bring new DR replication capabilities to us. Sorely needed.

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dbtng -2 points 10 months ago

"stable"
This PDM software is not going to be stable. Its a brand new 1.0 product from a company that moves fast and breaks shit. I doubt they went a single day without releasing patches for this thing.

I have a collection of the PDM alpha releases. That was some of the raw-est most-uncooked spaghetti I've ever seen served up by a software company. There is no way they got this thing across the finish line. It's gonna have issues.

That said, this vcenter-like hyper-hypervisor console showed some promise. It provided one brand new capability, hot vmotion between clusters. While the data displayed about clusters and hosts had a janky feel, it was some sort of common interface.
A poor start, but a start nonetheless.

I dunno. It wasn't useful enough for me. I'll look at it again later. I'm slowly working PVE 9 and PBS 4 into my environment, now that they've aged to a .1 rev, and that's got me plenty busy.

EDIT: Should you decide to have a Proxmox Datacenter Manager adventure, you're really going to want to view the stickied threads at their dedicated forum.
https://forum.proxmox.com/...

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possiblylinux127 2 points 10 months ago

Source?

Claiming that PDM is a buggy mess because you had bad experiences with a alpha release is a bold statement.

I haven't tested it but according to the Proxmox team they have put it though a bunch of testing. There will always be bugs but in general when Proxmox calls something stable it is stable.

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dbtng 0 points 10 months ago

Fire it up.

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