Rilis Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 2.3, 04 Maret 2013

Proxmox versi 2.3 sudah dirilis, berikut adalah release notesnya :

update qemu-kvm to 1.4.0
new kvm backup implementation, see Backup and Restore
added RBD (ceph) support on GUI
update kernel to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab072.10.src.rpm
include latest Broadcom bnx2/bnx2x drivers
include latest Adaptec aacraid driver 1.2-1[29900]
update e1000e to 2.2.14
update igb to 4.1.2
update ixgbe to 3.12.6
enable CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED (also update corosync if you install this kernel)
extend memory GUI to support ballooning
implement auto-ballooning
add HD resize feature to expand disks
updated network drivers (bnx2/bnx2x/e1000e/igb/ixgbe)
added omping binaries (for testing multicast between nodes)
update to latest Debian version 6.0.7
qcow2 as default storage format, cache=none (previously raw)
KVM64 as default CPU type (previously qemu64)
e1000 as default NIC (previously rtl8139)
task history per VM
Node Summary: added “KSM sharing” and “CPU Socket count”
enable/disable tablet for VM on GUI without stop/start of VM (you can use vmmouse instead, for lower CPU usage, works on modern Linux and on all Windows VMs as long as you install the vmmouse drivers)
bug fixes (for all details see bugtracker and GIT

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Untuk upgrade Proxmox versi 2.x ke versi 2.3, ikuti prosedur berikut :

Pastikan isi file /etc/apt/sources.list seperti berikut ini :
[code lang=”bash”] deb http://http.at.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib# PVE packages provided by proxmox.com
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian squeeze pve# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
[/code]
Matikan semua VM yang sedang berjalan
Jalankan perintah untuk update repo dan package
[code lang=”bash”] apt-get update
[/code]
Pastikan perintah update diatas berhasil dilakukan tanpa ada error
Jalankan perintah upgrade
[code lang=”bash”] apt-get dist-upgrade
[/code]
Setelah selesai, restart Proxmox dan jalankan perintah : pveversion -v dan check apakah sudah menggunakan versi 2.3 atau belum

pve-server:~#pveversion -v
pve-manager: 2.3-12 (pve-manager/2.3/ad9c5c05)
running kernel: 2.6.32-18-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.3-88
pve-kernel-2.6.32-18-pve: 2.6.32-88
lvm2: 2.02.95-1pve2
clvm: 2.02.95-1pve2
corosync-pve: 1.4.4-4
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.93-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.9-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-36
qemu-server: 2.3-17
pve-firmware: 1.0-21
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-48
libpve-access-control: 1.0-26
libpve-storage-perl: 2.3-6
vncterm: 1.0-3
vzctl: 4.0-1pve2
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.4-6
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1

Sebagai tambahan informasi, Excellent menyelenggarakan training “Mastering Proxmox VE” pada tanggal 9-10 Maret 2013 menggunakan Proxmox 2.3. Jika berminat, silakan register ya 😉