Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, developer of the open
source server virtualization solution Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE),
today released version 3.3. The series of new features focus on
security and include the Proxmox VE Firewall and two-factor
authentication. A HTML5 console, the ZFS storage plugin and the Proxmox
VE Mobile touch interface extend the range of use. Many package updates
are included in the release.
Highlight of the new release is the Proxmox VE Firewall.
It has a distributed nature and is designed to protect the whole IT
infrastructure. Completely integrated into the web-GUI and the cluster
stack, it allows the user to setup firewall rules for all hosts, the
cluster, virtual machines and containers. To keep these tasks simple,
the Proxmox VE Firewall comes with features like firewall macros,
security groups, IP sets and aliases. While configuration is stored on
the cluster file system layer, the iptables run on each cluster node
providing full isolation between individual virtual machines. In
contrast to a central firewall solution, the distributed nature of the
Proxmox VE Firewall provides a higher bandwidth, and at the same time
avoids bottlenecks.
The newly integrated two-factor authentication
will add an extra layer of security to Proxmox VE. With version 3.3,
login with a one-time password (OTP) can be enabled to the
username/password interface login – this works for all authentication
realms, including LDAP or Active Directory. The Proxmox developers offer
two different methods: YubiKey from Yubico and Time Based One-Time
Passwords (with OATH). These secure login processes shall help to
prevent unauthorized persons or programs to access the virtualization
servers.
The new HTML5 console (noVNC) is set as the default in Proxmox VE
3.3. It works on every platform (Windows/Linux/OSX), even on mobile
devices and supersedes the installation of the Java plugin or SPICE
viewer.
In addition to the full featured web interface, Proxmox VE Mobile is
a touch interface designed specifically for the use on mobile devices
(phones and tablets). It is just a HTML5 app built with Sencha Touch and
it runs on any mobile with a modern browser. Proxmox VE Mobile includes
a lot of key functionalities needed to manage virtualization on the go,
including the HTML5 and the SPICE console. It is meant as an additional
help for the admin, but not to replace the full admin interface.
Proxmox VE Mobile also supports two-factor authentication like a YubiKey
with NFC.
Availability of Proxmox VE 3.3:
Proxmox VE 3.3 is released under the AGPL, v3 and is available as ISO-image for download at http://www.proxmox.com/downloads For enterprise customers, Proxmox offers subscriptions starting at EUR 49.90 per year and CPU socket.
Facts and Milestones Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE is
used by 62.000 hosts in 140 countries. The GUI is available in 17
languages and the active community counts more than 24.000 forum
members.
- Proxmox VE 3.3 with HTML5 console, Proxmox VE Firewall, Two-factor
authentication, ZFS storage plugin, and a touch interface Proxmox VE
Mobile, qemu 2.1 in September 2014
- Proxmox VE 3.2 with SPICE and spiceterm, Ceph storage system, Open
vSwitch, support for VMware™ pvscsi and vmxnet3, new ZFS storage plugin,
qemu 1.7 in March 2014.
- Proxmox VE V3.1 with Enterprise-Repository updates via GUI, SPICE, GlusterFS storage plugin in August 2013.
- Proxmox VE V3.0 brings VM templates and cloning, new event driven API server, Debian 7.0 (Wheezy), bootlogd in May 2013.
- Proxmox VE V2.0 with High-Availability (HA) based on Redhat Cluster and Corosync; RESTful web API is released in April 2012.
- Proxmox VE V0.9 - First public release in April 2008. GUI for managing KVM and containers.