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

Download : http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/17-iso-images

Download IIX : http://mirror.linux.or.id/proxmox

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

1. Pastikan isi file /etc/apt/sources.list seperti berikut ini :

   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

2. Matikan semua VM yang sedang berjalan
3. Jalankan perintah untuk update repo dan package

   apt-get update

4. Pastikan perintah update diatas berhasil dilakukan tanpa ada error
5. Jalankan perintah upgrade

   apt-get dist-upgrade

6. 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