Proxmox & Untangle
(First public beta release is scheduled for Q3/2011, probably not feature complete)
- Complete new GUI
- based on Ext JS 4 JavaScript framework
- fast search-driven interface, capable of handling hundreds and probably thousands of VM´s
- secure VNC console, supporting external VNC viewer with SSL support
- role based permission management for all objects (VM´s, storages, nodes, etc.)
- Support for multiple authenication sources (e.g. local, MS ADS, LDAP, …)
- Based on Debian 6.0 Squeeze
- longterm 2.6.32 Kernel with KVM and OpenVZ as default
- second kernel branch with 2.6.x, KVM only (tbd)
- New cluster communication based on corosync, including:
- Proxmox Cluster file system (pmcfs): Database-driven file system for storing configuration files, replicated in realtime on all nodes using corosync
- creates multi-master clusters (no single master anymore!)
- cluster-wide logging
- basis for HA setup´s with KVM guests
- RESTful web API
- Ressource Oriented Architecture (ROA)
- declarative API definition using JSON Schema
- enable easy integration for third party management tools
- Planned technology previews (CLI only)
- spice protocol (remote display system for virtualized desktops)
- sheepdog (distributed storage system)
- Commitment to Free Software (FOSS): public code repository and bug tracker for the 2.x code base
- Topics for future releases
- Better resource monitoring
- IO limits for VM´s
- Extend pre-built Virtual Appliances downloads, including KVM appliances
