Review: Proxmox Virtual Environment

Proxmox VE is a “bare metal” ISO Linux distribution that is a virtual machine platform. It is geared towards enterprise users and designed to be installed on enterprise grade hardware. The Proxmox VE distribution combines two virtual machine technologies; KVM and OpenVZ as well as a web interface to manage everything. Proxmox VE also integrates into its web interface a way to manage multiple computers as a cluster. For the rest of the article Proxmox VE shall be referred to as PVE. This review covers the latest stable release PVE 1.1.



PVE's web interface is very elegant and exposes most underlying functionality of both KVM and OpenVZ. The interface is fairly intuitive but like all programs it has a learning curve. The interface gives basic information for your virtual machines, containers and for the host node. It provides stats on disk, memory and CPU usage. For the host node more advanced statistics are given that show a good overview of the host's health and potential bottlenecks.

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