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michu

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Hi,

I'm interested with deploy Proxmox VE in my company, and I want to ask few questions:)

1) Is it really free? No hidden costs etc.? I've read its open source...but... :)
2) I need to move 3 physical servers into 1 server with Proxmox VE
- FTP + Samba File Server (ubuntu 08.04, I want to upgrade it to ubuntu 10.04),
- Router + Firewall + NAT (ipfw + dummynet) (FreeBSD 8),
- Bridge with transparent firewall (bridge-utils + iptables) (ubuntu 08.04, I want upgrade it to ubuntu 10.04)

As I know, first two servers should be rather easy to move to Proxmox VE, KVM works well with new ubuntu and FreeBSD. Is there anything I should know about routing in quest systems?

I'm scared about bridge with transparent firewall... The bridge contains 2 network cards and it works in promisc mode filtering packets beetween two network nodes with the same address pool (10.0.0.0/8) -> for some reason we can't use router here, nevermind why. The bridge IP is from different address pool (192.168.0.0/16). Is it possible to run it on quest system (KVM)???


Regards and sorry for my english...

Michu
 
michu said:
Hi,

I'm interested with deploy Proxmox VE in my company, and I want to ask few questions:)

1) Is it really free? No hidden costs etc.? I've read its open source...but... :)
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the software is GPL, sources and binaries are free to download and can be used according to the GPL license. if you need support outside the forum and mailing list you can think of http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Get_support#Commercial_Support
 
I'll respond to this interesting question.....

1) Yes it's free. It's GPL. Hidden costs? Yes, maintaining whatever you want costs as muche as what costs the freedom.
No money, no hidden costs, only the maintenance of the freedom has its own cost....
2) You can do all what you want... with the bridge.
The vm sees the ethenet as a normal ethernet and despite you can "bridge" what you want


Of course PVE is GPL but i think that the staff behind it eats all days and if you want to send money to the staff
it can be a good startpoint for maintaining the freedom...

Dietmar can be more exhaustive than me....


Diaolin
 
Thank you guys for fast reply:)

@diaolin

About 2nd question: I just simply can't imagine that, I asked the question because I know that Proxmox creates bridge (vmbr) for network interfaces, so I started to think how it will work if one bridge sits inside seconds bridge. Anyway thanks for reply, I'll test it, just wanted to know before install if it's possible.

Maybe I ask one more question:) Is it better to use virtio with Linux/FreeBSD or e1000 / rtl8139? Which one gives the best performance and stability?


Once again thank you guys

Michu
 
virtio for Linux is best. as far as I know freebsd has no virtio drivers, but maybe I am wrong.
 
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