Proxmox Server Solutions has shipped version 1.1 of Proxmox Datacenter Manager, the Vienna-based company's open-source control plane for stitching together distributed Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server deployments. The release, announced on 2026-05-28, pushes the still-young management layer well past its initial scope with native Ceph monitoring, centralized provisioning, and the first pieces of cross-cluster guest orchestration.
The headline feature for hyper-converged shops is unified Ceph cluster monitoring. A single consolidated panel now surfaces health, capacity, and real-time performance across every connected cluster, with granular views into OSDs, monitors, managers, MDS instances, storage pools, CephFS, and cluster flags. Alongside it, an integrated installation workflow turns the manager into a configuration server for bare-metal provisioning: administrators define answer files with predefined parameters, hosts pull them during unattended installs via a token-protected mechanism, and progress is tracked from the web UI. A new subscription registry rounds out the lifecycle story, letting operators pool and assign keys across remotes (and bake them directly into answer files for automatic registration on first boot).
Central guest management arrives in its first form, with a cross-remote view listing every QEMU virtual machine and LXC container across connected sites. The interface offers sortable tables, a tree grouped by remote, text filtering, and snapshot management with a parent-child tree for create, rollback, delete, and description edits. A new Resume action joins the existing start, stop, and shutdown controls for paused or suspended VMs. Dashboard widgets get a meaningful upgrade too, including a world map showing the physical locations of connected remotes, gauge-based visualizations for CPU, memory, and storage, and RRD graphs for the manager host itself.
Under the hood, version 1.1 moves to Debian 13.5 "Trixie" with Linux kernel 7.0 as the new stable default and ZFS 2.4. The software is written in Rust and released under the GNU AGPLv3. ISO images and APT upgrades are available from the Proxmox downloads page, and customers with active Enterprise support plans for their managed Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server remotes get access to manager updates without a separate subscription. Full details are in the forum announcement.
