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Proxmox Virtual Environment

AT A GLANCE OVERVIEW
• Complete, open-source platform for Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source solution for
enterprise virtualization enterprise virtualization, that integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux
containers (LXC), software-defined storage (SDS) and networking (SDN),
• Control via web-based
on a single platform. From the central user interface, you can manage
management interface
VMs and containers, storage resources, simple or advanced network
• 100% software-defined architecture configuration, and high availability for clusters. The interface also provides
• Two virtualization technologies access to multiple out-of-the-box tools for tasks such as backup/restore,
supported: KVM hypervisor & Linux live-migration, storage replication, and firewall configuration.
Container (LXC) Proxmox VE is designed to scale to cluster-level and enables you to
• Easy management with web-based virtualize even the most demanding of Linux and Windows application
user interface & CLI workloads. By combining two virtualization technologies on a single
platform, Proxmox VE provides maximum flexibility for your data center. It
• High-Availability (HA) Cluster includes strong high-availability (HA) support and—thanks to the unique
Manager multi-master design—you don’t need any additional management server,
• Live/Online Migration thus saving resources and allowing HA without a single point of failure
(SPOF).
• Integration of Proxmox Backup
Server ENTERPRISE-READY
• Built-in services: firewall,
Enterprises use the powerful Proxmox VE platform to easily install,
backup/restore, storage replication,
manage, and monitor their hyper-converged (HCI) data centers. Multiple
etc.
authentication sources, combined with role-based user and permission
• Open-source license (GNU AGPLv3) management enable flexible control of HA clusters. The REST API enables
• Enterprise support available easy integration of third-party management tools, such as custom hosting
environments.

The future-proof and open-source development model of Proxmox VE

guarantees full access to the product’s source code as well as maximum
flexibility and security.

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• Based on proven Linux HA technologies, providing
INDUSTRY-LEADING stable and reliable HA service.
ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION • Resource agents for KVM and containers (LXC).
• Linux and Windows servers, 32- and 64-bit • Watchdog-based fencing.
operating systems. SELF-FENCING
• Support for the latest Intel and AMD server chip
sets – for great VM performance. • The Proxmox VE HA Manager uses self fencing,
• Near bare-metal performance for real-world provided by hardware watchdog or kernel softdog
enterprise workloads. timers.
• Management layer containing all the capabilities to • No simultaneous data access or corruption.
manage and monitor an open-source, software- • Works „out-of-the-box“.
defined data center. • Includes Proxmox VE HA Simulator for testing.

FREE & OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE UNIFIED VIRTUAL GUESTS OPERATION

• Licensed under the GNU AGPL, v3. • Create and maintain VMs and containers on a single
• Debian-based, using the Proxmox kernel with platform.
OpenZFS support. • Set hard and soft limits for CPU and Memory.
• Designed for community cooperation. • Pin virtual guests to a set of CPU cores.
• Public code repository (Git). • Migrate to any cluster node.
• Open development on transparent mailing list.
VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH QEMU/KVM
• Bug tracker for issue tracking.
• Community support forum. • Independent from OS: Run unmodified Windows,
• Documentation, project page, video tutorials, how- Linux, BSD, or others.
to guides, ... • QEMU/KVM for low overhead.
• Snapshot a full VM; optionally with memory (live).
ENTERPRISE SUPPORT AGREEMENT • Hot-plug network devices, USB devices, disks, CPUs,
• Avoid hidden costs with clear subscription model. and memory to a running VM.
• Flexible support options that grow with your needs. • PCI(e) pass-through using the GUI.
• Access to the stable and extensively tested • Import VMs from other hypervisors (via OVF).
Enterprise Repositories for Proxmox VE and Ceph. • Setup UEFI with secure boot and a Trusted Platform
• Updates and version upgrades via GUI. Module (TPM) to run modern guest OS.
• Proxmox Offline Mirror tool to keep air-gapped • View guest display from anywhere with noVNC
systems up-to-date. HTML5 web console or SPICE client (virt-viewer).
• Premium technical support from the highly-skilled
CONTAINERS WITH LXC
Proxmox support team.
• Proxmox Container Toolkit (pct) provides easy and
HIGHLY AVAILABLE (HA) CLUSTER flexible management of Linux Container (LXC).
• No single point of failure (no SPOF). • Ready-to use images of most common Linux
• Multi-master cluster. distributions and TurnKey Linux templates available.
• Manage the HA settings for KVM and LXC via GUI. • Fine-grained memory and CPU resource control.
• Cluster Resource Scheduling (CRS). • Shares the host kernel: Almost zero overhead.
• pmxcfs—unique Proxmox VE Cluster File System: • Security features like AppArmor, seccomp, Cgroups,
database-driven file system for storing configuration and kernel namespaces.
files, replicated in real-time across all nodes using • Snapshot and rollback the full container state at any
Corosync. time.
• Quick maintenance with web console (xterm.js).

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LIVE/ONLINE MIGRATION SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK (SDN)
• Move QEMU VMs from one physical host to another • Manage and control complex networking
with zero downtime. configurations and multitenancy setups via GUI.
• Local storage live-migration. • Separate the different network areas into zones
consisting of virtual networks (VNets).
FLEXIBLE STORAGE OPTIONS • Applicable to all sizes of networks, from a simple
• Local storage such as ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, and LVMthin. routed NAT setup, traditional separation into
• Shared storage such as CIFS, iSCSI or NFS. 802.1q VLANs, to features like QinQ, VXLAN
• Distributed storage such as Ceph RBD and CephFS. tunneling, and BGP-based EVNP infrastructures.
• Encryption support for Ceph OSD and ZFS. • Cluster-wide synchronization of the configuration.
• Unlimited number of storage definitions (cluster- • Live reload after a configuration is changed.
wide).
LINUX NETWORK STACK
STORAGE REPLICATION STACK (ZFS) • Flexible options to manage local nodes.
• Built-in, open-source storage replication framework. • Well-known tool with configuration via the GUI.
• Redundancy for guests using local storage. • IPv4 and IPv6 support.
• Data availability without using shared storage. • Support for VLANs, bonds, and bridges.
• Asynchronous replication.
• Minimize data loss in the case of a failure. BACKUP AND RESTORE
• Improve reliability, fault-tolerance, and accessibility • Full backups of VMs and containers.
of your data. • Live snapshot backups.
• Enables fast, live migration (sync only delta since last • Define flexible backup job schedules with the
replication). calendar event format.
• Flexible scheduling options with the calendar events • Configure multiple backup storages.
format. • GUI and CLI integration.
• Backup and restore via GUI.
SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE (SDS) WITH • Set up backup retention policies via GUI.
CEPH • Run scheduled backup jobs manually in the GUI.
• Integrated Ceph, a distributed object store and file • Monitor backup jobs via the GUI’s tab “Tasks”.
system. • Automatically add notes to backups using a
template.
• Management via GUI or CLI.
• Easy-to-use installation wizard. INTEGRATION OF
• Run Ceph RBD and CephFS directly on the Proxmox
VE cluster nodes. PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER
• Proxmox delivers its own Ceph packages. • Full support for the open-source, enterprise backup
• Ceph support is included in the support agreement. solution from Proxmox.
• Add external Ceph clusters as storage via GUI. • Incremental, fully deduplicated backups of VMs,
containers, and physical hosts.
• QEMU dirty-bitmaps for extremely fast VM backup.
• Strong encryption on the client-side, with easy
encryption key management.
• Single-file and directory restore.
• With live-restore, guests start as soon as the restore
does.

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DISK MANAGEMENT VM TEMPLATES AND CLONES
• View all disks and their partitions. • Deploying VMs from templates is blazing fast, very
• Check S.M.A.R.T health status of disks. convenient, and if you use linked clones, highly
• Wipe all data from a partition or disk via the GUI. storage efficient.
• Create ZFS (RAID-Z, dRAID, RAID 0/1/10), LVM(-thin) • Linked and full clones.
and file based (ext4, XFS) storages.
VM HARDWARE PASSTHROUGH
TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION • Assign PCI(e) or USB devices to VMs via the GUI.
• Providing high security. • Hot-plug USB devices and ports into running VMs.
• Support for multiple 2nd factors for a single account. • Use virtual functions to share a single device with
• Ability to use a hardware token (Webauthn, TOTP, multiple guests.
Yubikey-OTP). • Pass through whole disks using the CLI.
• Generate single-use recovery codes. • Resource mappings for VMs, with hardware
• TFA/TOTP lockout to protect against brute-force passthrough/cluster-wide mapping of PCI/USB
attacks. devices.

MULTIPLE AUTHENTICATION SOURCES PROXMOX VE FIREWALL

• Proxmox VE supports multiple authentication • Supporting IPv4 and IPv6.
realms. • Linux-based netfilter technology. Stateful firewall for
• Linux PAM standard authentication (e.g., 'root' and easy, dynamic filtering.
other local users). • Distributed: configurations in Proxmox VE cluster
• Built-in Proxmox VE authentication server. file system, with iptables rules applied on each
• Microsoft Active Directory (MS ADS). node.
• LDAP • Cluster-wide IP sets, aliases, and security groups.
• Single Sign-On (SSO) with OpenID Connect. • 3 levels of configuration (data center, host, VM/CT).
• Regular and automated user synchronization for • Support for custom 'raw' tables; enable SYN flood
LDAP/AD realms attack protection.

FLEXIBLE ACCESS CONTROL WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

• User and permission management for all objects • Integrated - no need to install a separate
(VMs, storage systems, nodes, hardware resources, management tool nor any additional management
networking zones, etc.) . node.
• Proxmox VE comes with a number of predefined • Fast and easy creation of VMs and containers.
roles (groups of privileges) which cover common use • Seamless integration and easy management of an
cases. The contained privileges can be seen in the entire cluster.
GUI. • Fast, search-driven interface able to handle
• Permissions to control access to objects (access thousands of VMs and containers.
control lists). Each permission specifies a subject • Based on the Ext JS JavaScript framework.
(user or group) and a role (set of privileges) on a • Secure HTML5 console, supporting SSL.
specific path. • Let's Encrypt TLS certificates via the ACME-based
• Create API Tokens and lock them further down for DNS or HTTP challenge mechanism.
secure, and easily revocable access. • Subscription management via GUI.
• Restricted by default: new users or API tokens do • Simple management of APT package repositories,
not have any permissions. and upgrades via GUI.
• Integrated documentation.
• Available in multiple languages.

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COMMAND LINE (CLI) MODERN LINUX SERVER EXPERIENCE

• Manage all components of your virtual • Flexible notification system: rule-based notifications
environment. sent as email via local Postfix MTA or authenticated
• CLI with intelligent tab completion. SMTP, or sent via a Gotify instance.
• Full UNIX man page documentation. • Secure boot compatibility.
• Kernel pinning: select preferred kernel version.
REST API
• Easy integration for third-party management tools. ANDROID APP
• REST API (JSON as primary data format). • Connect to Proxmox VE instances.
• Alternative human-readable API format with • Manage clusters, nodes, VMs, and containers.
interactive browser, as built-in documentation. • Access SPICE and HTML5 consoles.
• Full support for API tokens. • Based on the Flutter framework.
• Automatic JSON Schema powered parameter
verification.
• Easy means of creating command line tools (use the
same API).
• Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA).
• Declarative API definition using JSON Schema.

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