[BlueOnyx:08920] Re: BX in Proxmox

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Ken,

> For Proxmox, I don't really like manually looking at the beancounter
> counts  and then comparing each view to the last to see if the error
> counts are incrementing. That's one nice feature of the Aventurine.

That's good to know, Ken. 

By the way: Aventurin{e} 6106R is in the making and shaping up nicely. Should 
be ready in 3-4 weeks. Like 5108R it'll run on SL 6.1 (64-bit) and comes with 
a ton of improvements.

As it'll be 64-bit, you can run both 32-bit and 64-bit VPS's (which is long 
overdue, I know). Aside from OpenVZ containers, KVM will now also be 
supported.

Other than that: The VPS management GUI got a large overhaul to speed up 
things and to simplify the OpenVZ management a bit further without taking away 
the ability to really lay a hand on all nuts and bolts if still desired.

OpenVZ allows a massive tweaking of the resource parameters that are available 
in a container. But in practical terms only a few of them are really useful 
for a typical VPS. As a tribute to that I modified the GUI in so far that a 
management of all VPS parameters moved into an "Advanced Settings" tab. But 
the new "Basic Settings" and the "Add new VPS" pages got streamlined in so far 
that you just specify the CPUUNITS, the amount of RAM and Swap and Diskspace. 
All the rest of the parameters are then set accordingly.

Likewise the backup of VPS's (OpenVZ and also for KVM) has been switched over 
to 'vzdump'. The old backup method is also still available as an option, as it 
also has some benefits.

If there is something you like to have added, drop me an email offlist and 
I'll see what I can do.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber