Proxmox VE 2.2 released!

[martin]

Hi all!

We just released Proxmox VE 2.2, including countless improvements and a lot of exiting new features like live snapshots for KVM guests.

V2.2 RELEASE PROMOTION
Get a reduction of 22% on your Premium, Standard or Basic Support Subscriptions! You can easily host all your virtualized servers with Proxmox VE 2.2 and get a replacement for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer. No license costs, no vendor lock-in, affordable support and full open-source system! Support is available in English and German.

Terms and Conditions:
- valid for Proxmox VE Support Subscriptions Premium, Standard, Basic
- valid until November, 30st 2012
- howto order: just contact me directly martin@proxmox.com

A big Thank-you to our active community for all feedback, testing, bug reporting and patch submissions.

Release notes
See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_2.2

Download
http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/17-iso-images

Upgrade from any 2.x
Just run 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'

Upgrade from 1.9 to 2.x
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_1.9_to_2.0

__________________
Best regards,

Martin Maurer
Proxmox VE project leader

 

[davidemiccone]

Just installed (fresh installation from ISO),
console don't works anymore :-(
Release notes say "openvz: use real console instead of 'vzctl enter'" maybe this is the cause.........

 

[ebiss]

PVE is great! Thanks.

...
Upgrade from any 2.x
Just run 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'

....

What's the different 'apt-get update && apt-get full-upgrade' ?

 

[badji]

Thank you very much.
It is already running on my servers.
I have just a problem with Sheepdog for the moment.

Merci à toute l'équipe de proxmox.

 

[badji]

PVE is great! Thanks.



What's the different 'apt-get update && apt-get full-upgrade' ?

apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade

or

aptitude update && aptitude -y full-upgrade

 

[ebiss]

apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade

or

aptitude update && aptitude -y full-upgrade

Sorry , my fault

 

[dietmar]

console don't works anymore :-(
Release notes say "openvz: use real console instead of 'vzctl enter'" maybe this is the cause.........

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/11...for-OpenVZ-Debian-containers-(V2-2-and-later)

 

[michu]

Hi,

Maybe stupid question, but in past I always updated it via aptitude update, aptitude safe-upgrade. Is it still valid way ??? I never used full-upgrade... is it safe for my distro ??? I use distro from Proxmox ISO.

Regards,
Michu

 

[tom]

just follow the howto in the first post.

 

[Faye]

I notice that qemu-kvm is up to 1.2 now. Does that mean we can use guest agent now? I would really love a way to get the hostname that was defined for a windows VM and use that in a DHCP request.

 

[dietmar]

Does that mean we can use guest agent now? I would really love a way to get the hostname that was defined for a windows VM and use that in a DHCP request.

We have not tested/implemented that so far.

 

[mir]

Hi all!
Release notes
See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_2.2

According to the release notes VE 2.2 GUI should have added a new hardware option for SATA. I have not been able to find this option so could you tell in which menu this option is available?

 

[dietmar]

I have not been able to find this option so could you tell in which menu this option is available?

The 'Bus/Device' selector now contains IDE, SATA, SCSI and VIRTIO.

 

[mir]

The 'Bus/Device' selector now contains IDE, SATA, SCSI and VIRTIO.

Not here. See attached screenshot.


pveversion --verbose
pve-manager: 2.2-24 (pve-manager/2.2/7f9cfa4c)
running kernel: 2.6.32-16-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.2-80
pve-kernel-2.6.32-13-pve: 2.6.32-72
pve-kernel-2.6.32-14-pve: 2.6.32-74
pve-kernel-2.6.32-16-pve: 2.6.32-80
lvm2: 2.02.95-1pve2
clvm: 2.02.95-1pve2
corosync-pve: 1.4.4-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.93-1
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.9-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-28
qemu-server: 2.0-62
pve-firmware: 1.0-21
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-36
libpve-access-control: 1.0-25
libpve-storage-perl: 2.0-34
vncterm: 1.0-3
vzctl: 4.0-1pve2
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.2-7
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1

 

[mir]

Solved. Turned out to be a browser caching issue

 

[resoli]

Low performance of data transfer over cifs mounts

Hi all!

We just released Proxmox VE 2.2, including countless improvements and a lot of exiting new features like live snapshots for KVM guests.

We have upgraded one of our cluster nodes to 2.2. We noted that performance of data transfer over smb mounts is severely impacted on
machines configured with more than one sockets/cores configured.

With 2 cores we have max 1.5 MB/s, with 1 core over 30 MB/s .

I have still to try with other protocols.

bye,
rob

 

[resoli]

Re: Low performance of data transfer over cifs mounts

We have upgraded one of our cluster nodes to 2.2. We noted that performance of data transfer over smb mounts is severely impacted on
machines configured with more than one sockets/cores configured.

With 2 cores we have max 1.5 MB/s, with 1 core over 30 MB/s .

I have still to try with other protocols.

bye,
rob

tried with scp;

with 2 Cores : 70MB/s
with 1 Core : 4MB/s

rob

 

[c0urier]

Re: Low performance of data transfer over cifs mounts

I can agree with this. As soon as more then 1 core has been assigned to a KVM VM, the transfer is terrible.

With 4 cores:
1-4 MB/s

With 1 core:
70-90MB/s

If I change the network adapter from VirtIO to Intel E1000, the transfer is going much better, but still it's limited to ~ 30MB/s where it should be around 1xxMB/s.

 

[dietmar]

Re: Low performance of data transfer over cifs mounts

with 2 Cores : 70MB/s
with 1 Core : 4MB/s

So the problem only show up on smb mounts?

 

[resoli]

Re: Low performance of data transfer over cifs mounts

So the problem only show up on smb mounts?

no, I have verified this also via scp, transfer rate passes from 70MB/s to 4MB/s.

I opened also a Ticket for this issue.

rob