Proxmox Datacenter Manager - First Alpha Release

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Hi, is there a testing repository for the Trixie version? I see that version 0.2.0 and such were marked, but http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pdm/dists/trixie 404's presently.
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no, there is no public testing repository for the Trixie-based release yet, but AFAIK, development focus will shift more towards PDM in the coming weeks, so there surely will be soon-ish, some time later this year.
 
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Hi Proxmox Team,

Recently found PDM and I am so happy that this way is considered.
The network environment I need to work with is pretty unstable so I really ran into big troubles with Cluster and Corosync. Thus I was forced to create "islands" for each node and I need to manage each node on it's own.
With PDM I received an overview over all machines and their ressources and I can find VMs CTs more easily.

What I am trying to say is that I appreciate this early project and I really hope the development is continueing and some other features are extended.

1.)
Overview of all HDD, SSD, NVMe SMART data and their "Health".
Recently I had an issue that an PVE system SSD reserve blocks were woren out and I luckyly noticed it but currently I have no good presentation and overview of the health of the hardware. I know, there are third tools that could be used and installed and so on...
But on the dashboard something like "Physical Disk Health" with all the drives listed and sorted with ther criticality, would be simple and great.

2.)
Storage space is critical in PVE, especially if you accidentially fill up your system disk everything gets unstable and crashes.
An overview on the dashboard like "Sorage with the lowest free space", maybe one with absolute GB space and one with percent sorting, that would be very cool.

These two listings would make my work with proxmox much easier to manage and more secure to observe.

Of course, having all the features from PVE UI in PDM UI would be also great but for me these two are the most important that I am missing.

I hope my feedback is recognized and I really apreciate your work.

PS: Any reason why not listing "Guests with the highest RAM usage"? It seems to be obviouse but maybe there is a good point?
 
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Looks nice! What I would love to see, and maybe others aswell, is the option to create VMs based on datacenters, and let the manager autopick which node to select. Furthermore, to migrate a VM to a different datacenter the HA rules must be replaced with the correct nodes. Also, maybe a feature to list all VMs, or VMs in a specific datacenter instead of per node view.
 
Really like a new compile of this on bookworm! I like the platform especially for moving VMs between hosts via gui. I think the only pre-compiled version is still 0.1.11? Stuck with 8 until VEEAM supports 9. Id just like to refresh my testing platform with all the fixes listed to date before going trixie.
 
First of all, really good idea.
Works very well for me, installation is easy and feels like a Proxmox product even though we are in alpha.

I was wondering if the roadmap item “Node Updates” also includes displaying whether node package updates are available. That would also be very helpful in keeping nodes up to date.
 
Hope PDM also support PVE 7. We can Start and Stop VM, but PVE 7 Migration still error:
Code: 
api error (status = 400: api returned unexpected data - failed to parse api response)

This will very useful since I have many PVE 6 and 7 which allready has API Token feature.
 
Johannes S said:
why should it support an end of live product which doesn't gets any updates anymore? Why can't you just update your PVE6 and PVE7 nodes?
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Because we need PDM to make migration to PVE 8 easier.

Updating to PVE 5/6/7 to 8 sometime is not an option, sometime better to install PVE 8/9 from scratch then migrate old VM, at least in my case :)
Currently, I must manually backup, copy to new server, then restore it.
 
kotakomputer said:
Because we need PDM to make migration to PVE 8 easier.

Updating to PVE 5/6/7 to 8 sometime is not an option, sometime better to install PVE 8/9 from scratch then migrate old VM, at least in my case :)
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Yes and you will need to do this anyhow (reinstall or update), imho it's not a good idea to encourage people to keep EOL operating systems. So in my book it's a good thing PDC doesn't work with them: People who don't care about security updates (bad enough) but about new features will have to finally bring their systems to a supported version. I don't see any problems with it :)

kotakomputer said:
Currently, I must manually backup, copy to new server, then restore it.
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Or update the host to at least 7.4 and then use remote-migrate: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_7.4
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html

In fact PDC uses the same thing for it's migration which is the reason why it won't work with older versions of PVE.
 
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Johannes S said:
Yes and you will need to do this anyhow (reinstall or update), imho it's not a good idea to encourage people to keep EOL operating systems. So in my book it's a good thing PDC doesn't work with them: People who don't care about security updates (bad enough) but about new features will have to fibring their systems to a supported version. I don't see any problems with it :)
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Hi Johannes, I think you misunderstanding the issue. Proxmox DM now already support PVE 6 (except PVE 5 because has no Token feature, so I agree with you to ignore this PVE 5 version), you can see PDM has option to use manual API Token in this case, what is missing is: Migration feature. Another feature like Stop and Start already supported for PVE 6.

I have not check the PDM code, but from the error message, I guess PDM may only need to adjust the API call for Migration feature.
 
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