Proxmox VE
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Proxmox VE 4.4 administration interface screenshot
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| Developer | Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Free and open source software |
| Initial release | 15 April 2008 |
| Latest release |
4.4 / December 13, 2016 |
| Update method | APT |
| Package manager | dpkg |
| Platforms | AMD64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Userland | GNU |
| Default user interface | Web Based |
| License | Affero General Public License |
| Official website | pve |
4.4
Proxmox Virtual Environment, or Proxmox VE, is an open-source server virtualization environment. It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel 4.4 and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers. Proxmox VE includes a Web console and command-line tools, and provides a REST API for third-party tools. Two types of virtualization are supported: container-based with LXC (starting from version 4.0 replacing OpenVZ used in version up to 3.4, included), and full virtualization with KVM. It comes with a bare-metal installer and includes a Web-based management interface.
Proxmox VE is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.
The name Proxmox itself has no meaning, and was chosen because the domain name was available.
Development of Proxmox VE started when Dietmar and Martin Maurer, two Linux developers, found out OpenVZ had no backup tool and no management GUI. KVM was appearing at the same time in Linux, and was added shortly afterwards. The first public release took place in April 2008, and the platform quickly gained traction. It was one of the few platforms providing out-of-the-box support for container and full virtualization, managed with a Web GUI similar to commercial offerings.
The main features of Proxmox VE are: it's open source, it allows live migration, it has high availability, bridged networking, flexible storage, OS template building, scheduled backup, and command line tools.
Proxmox VE supports local storage with LVM group, directory and ZFS, as well as network storage types with iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NFS, GlusterFS, CEPH and DRBD
Proxmox VE can be clustered across multiple server nodes.
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