Need Proxmox VE 6.3-2 iso

[amey]

Hello,

I am searching for Proxmox 6.3-2 iso
Unable to find it at https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads/category/iso-images-pve
Pls suggest how to download the iso thanks.

Regards,
Amey.

 

[tom]

6.3 is outdated and not supported.

please use latest 6.4 (or even better, 7.0).

 

[amey]

6.3 is outdated and not supported.

please use latest 6.4 (or even better, 7.0).

I tried to install VE 7.x and tried to add the host to existing cluster which has all servers having 6.3 version.
I ran in to many issues for the newly added host.
Hence I want to install the same version that I have on other servers.

I am not sure if I will run in to any issues after adding 6.4 server in to 6.3 cluster.

Regards,
Amey.

 

[tom]

I am not sure if I will run in to any issues after adding 6.4 server in to 6.3 cluster.

you should update your 6.3 cluster to 6.4 anyways ...

 

[amey]

you should update your 6.3 cluster to 6.4 anyways ...

I don't have that much storage to take backup of all vm's before upgrading 6.3 to 6.4
And the hardware/storage costing & man hours that will be involved for this process is a over head for us. I did the calculation.
Anyways ...

 

[Dunuin]

I don't have that much storage to take backup of all vm's before upgrading 6.3 to 6.4
And the hardware/storage costing & man hours that will be involved for this process is a over head for us. I did the calculation.
Anyways ...

So you don't got backups of all your VMs because you don't want to buy enough backup storage? Thats money saving on the wrong end.

 

[amey]

So you don't got backups of all your VMs because you don't want to buy enough backup storage? Thats money saving on the wrong end.

Those are not production vm's my friend so the underlaying base storage also don't have any hardware RAID's ;-)

But if you calculate the man power & storage cost for this upgrade alone, it is not justifiable.

Look at this case study from a view of a start-up company.
Pls don't look at this case study from glasses of MNC's [Multi national companies]
I hope you got the point now thank you.

 

[Dunuin]

Those are not production vm's my friend so the underlaying base storage also don't have any hardware RAID's ;-)

But if you calculate the man power & storage cost for this upgrade alone, it is not justifiable.

Look at this case study from a view of a start-up company.
Pls don't look at this case study from glasses of MNC's [Multi national companies]
I hope you got the point now thank you.

If I don't want to loose something I do a backup, if it is a production system or not. If that VM isn't important enough, so it doesn't need a backup, loosing it doing an upgrade to 6.4 should be no problem. If it would be to expensive to setup everything again because it would take alot of manpower, you should do backups. Most of the time the hardware for storing the backups should be cheaper than the price of the manpower to install everything again from scratch.

 

[spirit]

proxmox upgrade don't touch vms datas. (maybe a big zfs upgrade between 6.x to 7.X could have a bug).

but migration for 6.3 to 6.4, it's just "apt dist-upgrade", so manpower is around 2min

you should always keep your cluster in last 6.x version or 7.x version. Proxmox is a rolling release.
minor version are only to tag cd release.

 

[amey]

If I don't want to loose something I do a backup, if it is a production system or not. If that VM isn't important enough, so it doesn't need a backup, loosing it doing an upgrade to 6.4 should be no problem. If it would be to expensive to setup everything again because it would take alot of manpower, you should do backups. Most of the time the hardware for storing the backups should be cheaper than the price of the manpower to install everything again from scratch.

When you can finish your task in 20 minutes, why would you spend time & money just because the installer is not available?
I think it is OK to ask if we can get the ISO. If no, that's ok.
Luckily I found the iso on 1 of my server drive's after performing extensive search.
What a life saver.

But again, thank you all for your valuable suggestions.

 

[Dunuin]

When you can finish your task in 20 minutes, why would you spend time & money just because the installer is not available?
I think it is OK to ask if we can get the ISO. If no, that's ok.
Luckily I found the iso on 1 of my server drive's after performing extensive search.
What a life saver.

But again, thank you all for your valuable suggestions.

I also think ISOs should be kept longer. Especially if you for example want to upgrade an production system and are looking for a old ISO to install it on an test system to test if the upgrade works fine before upgrading the production system.
But looking for a old ISO just so that you not need to upgrade your other servers to a recent version is the wrong way. If you stay on PVE 6.3 that also means that you aren't installing security fixes so your servers aren't secure. If you want your server to be secure you should always update them to the latest version of an major release. With 7.0 you will get new features + security updates, with 6.4 you get security updates only. If you stay on 6.3 you get non of that.

 

[jorgecorzo]

When you can finish your task in 20 minutes, why would you spend time & money just because the installer is not available?
I think it is OK to ask if we can get the ISO. If no, that's ok.
Luckily I found the iso on 1 of my server drive's after performing extensive search.
What a life saver.

But again, thank you all for your valuable suggestions.

Amey Could you please share the ISO, I'm looking for it and I can't find it anywhere and if you're right, they should publish the ISOs for much longer. Tnhanks to help me.

 

[RolandK]

please don't remove your isos from the download dir @proxmox team. there is a reason why people may need those. i also did miss 6.3 a while ago and needed to download from untrusted source somewhere on the net