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Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 (stable) is out (forum.proxmox.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/proxmox@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 11 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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    • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    single pane of glass

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

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    • [–] 1 point 11 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/forums/datacenter-manager-installation-and-configuration.28/

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