Proxmox Datacenter Manager

If like me you have a lot of individual Proxmox nodes or a lot of Proxmox clusters then this is for you. Proxmox Datacenter Manager allows you to combine all of your Proxmox nodes and clusters into a single web interface. Funnily enough a bit like vCenter from VMWare ;)

Proxmox Datacenter Manager is currently in alpha as of the time of writing this and already has some pretty incredible features. For example, you can migrate VMs from one cluster over to a completely different one. This seems absolutely mental to me who has been running multiple Proxmox clusters separately for a good while. I love it! Even just being able to see all of your VMs in one place is good enough.

As of right now we're on 0.1.9 which is still very early days of course but seems to be pretty stable. I haven't really had any issues to speak of.

To keep up to date on progress, you can check out the roadmap.

The main thing I login to Proxmox for and would love to see in PDM is information about backups and Proxmox Backup Server support. This is on their roadmap so I would imagine it won't be long.

Anyway, down to business. How do I run this?

Installation

I run this in an LXC container and it's running quite happily with 2 cores, 512MB ram, 8GB disk. I'd recommend starting with a Debian 12 base template and installing Proxmox Datacenter Manager inside of it. Here's the commands I used to do this...

echo 'deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pdm bookworm pdm-test' >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdm-test.list
wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg
apt update
apt install proxmox-datacenter-manager proxmox-datacenter-manager-ui

Once done, visit https://lxcip:8443

You'll use the same login for the web interface as you do for the LXC shell.