Proxmox Datacenter Manager

A stand-alone API + GUI product with the following main features for multiple instances of Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server in one central place.

Feature Overview

• Connect & display an arbitrary amount of independent nodes or clusters ("Remotes")

• View the status and load of all resources, which includes nodes, virtual guests, storages, datastores and so on. Proxmox Datacenter Manager provides a dashboard that tries to present information such that potential problematic outliers can be found easily.

• Customizable dashboards ("views") showing a configurable subset of resources

• Basic management of the guest resources

  • Resource graphs
  • Basic power management (start, reboot, shutdown)

• Remote shell for Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server remotes

• Global overview over available system updates for managed remotes

• Firewall overview for all managed remotes

• Basic SDN overview for all managed remotes

• Remote migration of virtual guests between different datacenters Advertising use of ZFS & Ceph backed replication for quicker transfer on actual migration

• View configuration health state (subscription, APT repositories, pending updates, ...)

• User management / access control

  • Users/API token
  • Support for LDAP and Active Directory
  • Support for OpenID Connect
  • Support for complex Two-Factor Authentication

• ACME/Let's Encrypt

• A non-exhaustive list of features planned for future releases is:

  • Management of more configuration (e.g. backup jobs, notification policies, package repos, HA)
  • Active-standby architecture for standby instances of PDM to avoid single point of failure.
  • Integration of other projects, like Proxmox Mail Gateway, and potentially also Proxmox Offline Mirror.
  • Off-site replication copies of guest for manual recovery on DC failure (not HA!)
  • ... to be determined from user feedback and feature requests.

Technology Overview

Backend

• Implemented in the Rust programming language, reusing code from Proxmox Backup Server where possible
• A for Proxmox projects standard dual-stack of API daemons. One as main API daemon running as unprivileged users and one privileged daemon running as root. Contrary to other projects the privileged daemon exclusively listens on a file based UNIX socket, thus restricting attack surface even further.
• The backend listens on port 8443 (TLS only)
• The code for the backend server is located in the server/ directory.

Frontend

• The Web UI communicates with the backend server via a JSON-based REST API.
• The UI is implemented in Rust, using Yew and the proxmox-yew-widget-toolkit. The Rust code is compiled to WebAssembly.
• The code for the UI is located in the ui/ directory.

CLI tools

There are two CLI tools to manage Proxmox Datacenter Manager.

• proxmox-datacenter-manager-client: client using the PDM API, can be used to control local or remote PDM instances
• proxmox-datacenter-manager-admin: root-only, local administration tool

Their implementation can be found in cli/admin and cli/client, respectively.

Documentation

Documentation (user-facing as well as developer-facing) can be found in docs/.