Proxmox is my favorite virtualization platform, and there are plenty of reasons why I adore it more than all its rivals ...

For starters, Proxmox is compatible with ZFS, GlusterFS, and even BTRFS file systems. But if you want to take things to the next level, thereâ s no beating the Ceph distributed file system.

I have proxmox+ceph but you'd want at least 5 machines to start, 10 is better. In my case with 40G Ethernet and SATA SSDs. It works OK, I wouldn't want to use it on anything slower like spinning disk.

Below the surface it's Debian, KVM, LXC, and Ceph with their stuff mixed in for good measure. If you're comfortable with Linux and know your way around, I wouldn't hesitate to give it a shot.

Proxmox has released version 3.2 of its Proxmox Virtual Environment open-source server virtualization platform. Key new features/enhancements include the ability to choose between Simple Protocol for ...