Hey guys, how's it going? I hope you're all doing really well out there today. In this video, we're going to do something a

little different. This isn't going to be a tutorial, but if you saw the thumbnail and title of this, you already know that.

So what we're going to do today is actually take a look at a new project from Proxmox. This is the Proxmox Data

Center Manager. A couple of things about this before we get in: uh, the first one is this is still an alpha. Please, please,

please do not deploy this in production. Uh, this is still very much an alpha. We are currently at version

0.1.7. So again, this is still very, very early. Uh, the second quick thing here is

I want to thank Nighthawk ATL for bringing this to my attention over on Discord this morning. Uh, super appreciate

that. Um, and uh, basically he sent me a couple of links, which we're going to take a look at, and uh, and then uh, then I

deployed it. So I would definitely put this in a VM, I think, to start with. Again, this is alpha; this isn't this isn't

production ready. Uh, there are still some things that obviously need some work. Um, but we're not going to go super in-depth

on this. Uh, we're just going to kind of take a quick look. We'll take a look at a

couple of the pages that are on there on the on the Proxmox uh, on the Proxmox

stuff on their servers, on their uh, on their stuff. And then we'll take a look at my uh, my setup here. We'll talk about

a couple of different things there. But um, but again, this is just kind of a a a first look, first impressions kind of

thing, not a tutorial, uh, outside of a couple of little things that I want to demonstrate. Um, but yeah, I guess with

That said, let's jump over to here. Um, that's the roadmap.

Uh, here we go. Okay, this was released this, uh, well, this morning at 2:22, uh, so like 4:00 this morning or

something, my time. Uh, anyway, uh, here we are. We're on the forums. This is the Proxmox Data Center Manager first alpha

release, and it says they're excited to announce the new, uh, alpha preview of the Proxmox Data Center Manager. This is an

early-stage version of the software, giving you a first impression of what we've been working on and a chance to

collaborate. So, um, yeah, that's kind of what I said, but they probably worded it better. Um, next, we've got what is

Proxmox Data Center Manager? Uh, the Data Center Manager project has been developed with the objective of

providing a centralized overview of all of your individual nodes and clusters. It also enables basic management like

migrations of virtual machines, or sorry, virtual guests, without any cluster network requirements. I love that. Um, for the longest time, if I've, so when I'm

when I'm deciding whether or not I want to add a VM, an LXC, whatever, um, to my

my, my, my official home lab, uh, that HL5 that I've got, um, first it has to go

on my demo server. I've got two Proxmox servers. I've got the HL5 and I've got a

little N100 mini PC that I do my testing, my tutorials, that sort of thing on. What I've been doing, if I want to move

something from my testing/demo server over to my production server, I run a backup. I've got my two nodes, uh, my two

data centers, uh, connected via a Proxmox backup server, and then I, I, I back it up and then I restore it.

On the other server, using this means you don't have to do that. Um, you can if you want, but again, they're just

trying to make things as simple as possible. So it says, "Why release an alpha?" I love that question, although

still in early stages of development, we felt it important to provide interested users and potential developers with early insight

into our newest project. This alpha version is intended to get your feedback, test core features, and collaborate with you. And I love all of that.

One of the things that I noticed while I was setting this up, while I was kind of doing some testing, I've got both of my

my Proxmox data center is connected to the virtual machine that is my Proxmox data center manager. Um, I noticed that on

uh, on my HL5, it wasn't pulling data—like hard drive, CPU, RAM—it wasn't

pulling any of that information into the dashboard, which we're going to take a look at here in a moment. And the

reason for that is that it doesn't meet the requirements. Right? My HL5 Proxmox server currently does not

meet the basic requirements of this. Um, I don't want to read too much more through this other than in the

FAQ: "What is the Proxmox, or what Proxmox VE version is supported?" Currently, the minimum required Proxmox

VE version is 8.3. My HL5 is like 8.2.4, I think. Um, so while I can

communicate with it and while I can do a couple of things with it, it's not fully

supported. Um, but it says, "During the alpha phase, we will only support the latest Proxmox VE version and encourage

frequent updates or upgrades from both PDM and PVE as new features are developed in lockstep." So there it

Sounds to me like they're going to be developing a Proxmox data center manager, like they said, kind of in the same pace, at the same time with Proxmox's virtual environment. So they will probably be releasing features on

both that will synchronize with each other in a very compatible way. Proxmox, or yeah, Proxmox has always been, for my

experience, really good at doing that. That's why I love them so much. So like they, they another, another quick thing

here, because I'm sure it'll come up: will other Proxmox projects be supported? Yes. Support for Proxmox Backup Server is

planned. Um, for other Proxmox projects, mail gateway, offline mirror, we will see how they can be integrated

after the first stable release of the data center manager. So that's what's currently going on. Uh, as far as

like system requirements, that sort of thing, I'm going to let you guys kind of look through some of that because I

don't want to waste your time by just reading this page to you. It's kind

of a, it's kind of a long page, but again there's also this wiki page over here that you can take a look

through as well. Everything in this video will be linked in the video description if you want to check that out. Um, but

yeah, so that's that's kind of, that's how I was brought into this. Again, Nighthawk ATL over on Discord sent me

these two links, um, and so I deployed it in a VM on my Synology. So that's how I'm

just doing some testing with it at the moment. If we jump over to my Proxmox data center manager, this this is our

dashboard. Um, we can see that we're on, again, 0.17. There, it's still very, very clearly says Alpha up there. So again,

Please, please don't deploy this into production; you won't have a good time. Um, but here we can see that

all of the remotes can be added. I'm sure they'll probably do something different with some of this up here. Um, so don't

don't pay too much attention to a lot of this. I guess I just know that currently we've got remotes; we've got in a virtual

virtual environment.  Nodes: there are two online; everything can be reached. Our virtual machines: we've got three VMs

running. Those are all on the HL5. Um, we've got 18 Linux containers, or LXC, running, with 27

stopped. And again, that that is all numbers that are combined between, uh, between my demo server here and, um, and

my HL5, I believe. Um, running, stopped... yeah, that all makes sense. I now that I've, now that I've looked, we're all good to go.

There are no valid subscriptions on anything. I don't do the Enterprise subscriptions on anything. Um, if we take

a look at this next little section over here, we've got guest nodes and nodes over here with the highest CPU usage and

memory usage; that sort of thing. That's what these three boxes down here are. Again, um, because we're not able to fully

communicate with the HL5 because I don't have the most current version of Proxmox VE installed

on it. Uh, I do on my demo server, not on my production server. I know it seems backwards, but whatever. Um, because I

don't have the most current version of Proxmox, uh, 8.3 installed on my HL5, I

can't get this data. I initially noticed it when I was over here on this remote; like, I get some information here, um, but

nothing, nothing over here in these visualization charts on the right side of the page. Uh, however, if we go over to

Like the Proxmox demo, we can actually see what all of this data has looked like over the course of the last hour

approximately, which I really dig. This might encourage me to remember to update my HTML5 to the most current

version, but my wife's watching Plex and I don't want to interrupt that. So that's kind of the

homepage; that's also kind of the remote stuff. But we're going to keep plowing through this. Um, there's a

search up here. I actually haven't... Oh yeah, so when you do a search—I just typed in "HL"—it's giving me

everything on the HTML5 here, uh, as far as like LXC. We've got our VMs

down here, all kinds of really good information, just by quickly searching. I can do like "prod"... No, or

sorry, "demo," right? Do the same thing there. Um, and we can kind of see everything that's going on. I think if we

click this, it should... Yeah, it should open up... It opens up the data center, not the actual VM, which is kind of

whatever. I'm sure that will get fixed, but it is what it is for the time being. Um, so back to our dashboard, let's

take a look. We've got notes; we can add notes if we want to do that. Uh, configuration. So basically, we've got

our... We can set our time zone, our server time, our DNS, network interfaces. We've got all of these options in here, um,

under "Other," under "Configuration," web, TOF, TFA... Currently nothing... I can... Oh, there we go. Oh, oh, right. I'd actually select which

one I wanted, and then click "Edit," and then... And then you can fill in the information for your... I believe

that's two-factor authentication there. Um, we've got access control, so basically user management and two-factor

authentication here. Uh, so I think the first one was for provider, and then this one is actually for enabling it for the

individual users. I could be wrong, but that's what I think it is. Um, certificates. Um, so we've got our our our

our proxy PEM file here. We've got Acme domains, counts, and challenge plugins. Um, so this is just for local

certificates for the data center manager. Um, under Administration, uh, we've got updates, repositories, and CIS log

tasks, you know, all of this kind of stuff. Um, so API error: failed to collect metrics, and that's again because I don't

have the newest version on my HTML5; that's why it's throwing all of these errors because it's not implemented on that

version. So that makes total total sense to me. Repositories again. Um, so they don't have a test—yeah, so the Prox

mox Data Center Manager test repository may pull in unstable updates and is not recommended for production use, like

I said earlier: don't put this in production, please. You'll you'll hate yourself if you do. I truly believe that.

Um, next we've got a shell, just like you would expect, uh, like we're very familiar with. Uh, regarding Proxmox, we've got remote

so we can add a virtual environment; we'll talk about that here in a minute. Uh, we can edit an environment, or we can

Proxmox Datacenter Manager (Alpha) First Look!

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