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Lucas KD
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Over the Christmas holidays I was searching for a new tool to manage Virtual Machines. I found many reviews that recommended Proxmox VE for small to medium size deployments. After evaluating about 10 products, I too came to the same conclusion, Proxmox 2.2 is the most mature and provided the quickest and most direct path to managing a productive VM environment. So, I want to say thanks for all those that have worked to get it where it is today. It's easy, the U/I is intuitive, and I especially appreciate the ISO image for installing systems that are immediately ready for migration into a cluster.
Here's a couple of thoughts. My usage is for testing various clients in a sandboxed environment (therefore I don't have the same security risks that systems outside of a self contained, firewalled environment would have). Consequently, I'd recommend the following:
Other than that, I was happy to learn about the API you've published, and it seems the Java library has significant development over the Python Library (didn't look at any others). I just wanted to say thanks for all of the generous donations to the public domain.
Thanks again for such a polished product.
Lucas
Here's a couple of thoughts. My usage is for testing various clients in a sandboxed environment (therefore I don't have the same security risks that systems outside of a self contained, firewalled environment would have). Consequently, I'd recommend the following:
- Don't require a java client for console access.
- My company routinely denies Java apps and applets the ability to run by disabling them in our corp operating systems and in our browsers that are deployed within our corporation. This affectively killed the use of your native console, and I had to turn on the VNC server by editing the <VMID>.conf file. This works, but would be better if there was a switch I could invoke to automatically do this when I spin up a new VM.
- My browser developers said using Java apps in this way is inherently unsafe.
- Don't require TLS in VNC clients.
- There are numerous valid use cases where security is not a concern, so requiring this is a bit rigid.
- OSX Support
- Now that Apple allows the running of OSX 10.6 on in a Virtual Container, I'd love to see this integration with Proxmox. My current solution has Linux and Windows managed by Proxmox, and OS X managed by VMWare Fusion. As long as it's running on Apple hardware, it seems like a sexy solution as then you have one management interface into all VMs. This would also be a differentiator from similar solutions.
Other than that, I was happy to learn about the API you've published, and it seems the Java library has significant development over the Python Library (didn't look at any others). I just wanted to say thanks for all of the generous donations to the public domain.
Thanks again for such a polished product.
Lucas