Proxmox The Good The bad and The Ugly

The Good

• Simple to Understand
• KVM Based
• Scales to 16+ Physical Hosts
• Stable Kernels
• EXTJS Web GUI
• Perl Back End
• Graphs and Monitoring Tools Live Migration

The Bad

• EXTJS Web GUI
• Perl Back End
• Quorum Based Locking cluster
  • Odd Number of hosts work best
  • 5 Quorum hosts work best
  • N+ of non-voting hosts. Tested to 13
  • Recovery is automatic and work 95% of the time.
• Disk IO

The Ugly

• Quorum Based Locking cluster
  • Recovery is automatic and 5% of the time, VM's will need to be rebooted or moved back into the cluster by hand.
• Disk IO
• Command Line Live migration between clusters missing.
• Graphs missing for vlan or second adapter.