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If you’ve been keeping an eye on Proxmox over the past few years, one tool has consistently caught everyone’s attention: Proxmox Datacenter Manager. We first saw it in its early alpha stage, then later in beta, and now the big moment has arrived—Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 is officially GA.
This release fills what many have considered the missing piece in the Proxmox ecosystem: a true centralized management platform with a very “vCenter-like” experience. It brings unified visibility, streamlined control, and an enterprise-ready management layer that Proxmox has long needed.
Let’s take a closer look at how Proxmox Datacenter Manager is set to transform not only home lab setups but also production environments at scale.
The official news
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Proxmox Server Solutions has officially launched Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0, marking the first time the company has delivered a truly purpose-built, single-pane-of-glass solution for its ecosystem. While the concept of centralized Proxmox management isn’t new, this release is the first fully integrated platform designed specifically for that role.
With Proxmox Datacenter Manager, administrators gain access to a unified metrics dashboard, cross-cluster operations, role-based visibility, centralized updates, and even cross-cluster live migration—one of the most significant and long-awaited capabilities to date.
Read the official press statement here: Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available.
What challenge does this solve?
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If you’ve ever managed two or more Proxmox clusters simultaneously, you already know how challenging it can be. Each cluster has its own web interface, its own authentication, its own metrics, and its own update schedule. Scaling this across multiple hosts—or even multiple datacenters—quickly becomes cumbersome and complex.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 solves this problem by providing a centralized operations dashboard that gives administrators unified visibility and control across their entire Proxmox environment.
Here are a few of the common issues that Proxmox Datacenter Manager helps to solve:
- Disjointed monitoring with no global view
- Manual and repetitive tasks across clusters
- No standard location to search or audit resources
- Difficulty coordinating updates with multiple hosts/clusters at scale
- No easy way to assign permissions across teams
- No built in cross cluster VM migrations
The release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager is the official GA release that helps customers solve these pain points.
Centralized overview and metrics aggregation
One of the first things that is obviously a game changer is the unified dashboard that connects to multiple Proxmox VE servers. These can be:
- Standalone node
- Full Proxmox VE cluster
- Proxmox Backup Server
From the interface, you can see the overall health of the Proxmox environment in real time. The dashboard shows you things like CPU load, RAM use, storage I/O, and backup server health among other key performance statistics.
Another neat feature is that Proxmox caches recent data locally. With this, you can still see the last known state of clusters even if a remote Proxmox host becomes temporarily unreachable. For multi-site deployments or edge locations with unstable connectivity, I can see this being really beneficial.
Dynamic role-based custom views
For teams of admins that includes admins, junior admins, and others, PDM contains a new permissions model that allows admins to create specialized views of the environment. You can filter these by cluster, host type, tags, or even resource class. So, you can build out custom dashboards to show only what resources specific users need to see.
The key here is that it is role-based access control at a high-level. This means you don’t have to give users access to the underlying infrastructure. This will help with compliance in production environments.
It also gives administrators the ability to design purpose built views like the following:
- A dashboard for backup operators
- A dashboard for capacity planners
- A dashboard for help desk teams
- A dashboard for edge site admins, etc
Again, these are all controlled through one system without exposing the rest of the infrastructure.
Multi-cluster management from the same UI
This is now a huge feature. Admins can connect multiple clusters and multiple Proxmox Backup Servers (PBS) into one control plane tool. Once these are connected, they can perform VM and container life cycle tasks from the same interface.
Features for this include starting and stopping guests, modifying basic settings, and configuring and managing storage resources. Now, you don’t have to jump between the different interfaces of the various Proxmox servers you have in your home lab or production environments.
Cross cluster live migration
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One of the most game-changing features introduced in the 1.0 GA release is cross-cluster live migration. Until now, Proxmox has only supported live migration within the same cluster, leaving no official method for moving running VMs between clusters without downtime.
With Datacenter Manager, that limitation is finally gone. Administrators can now seamlessly migrate running virtual machines across clusters with zero interruption. This fundamentally expands what’s possible with Proxmox infrastructure and opens the door to far more flexible, resilient, and scalable deployments.
The new feature supports:
- Load balancing across clusters
- Hardware maintenance or even decommissions clusters without downtime
- Migration of workloads between datacenters
I think cross cluster live migration will be one of the features introduced that will allow more enterprise customers to consider Proxmox for larger environments.
Search with a query language that makes sense
There is a new full search engine in the release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0. This means you can filter across all your clusters and nodes.
You can search by resource type, cluster, running state, or specific tags. This becomes useful in environments with hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines or containers. Trying to find a workload in the traditional Proxmox interface would mean navigating the tree structure in each specific interface. In Datacenter Manager, the search bar is the fastest way to find any resource.
Centralized SDN with EVPN
Back in Proxmox 8.x, it released software-defined networking. Managing SDN across multiple clusters though hasn’t really been easy due to the disaggregated nature of the interface. With Datacenter Manager, it introduces centralized SDN configurations for EVPN zones and VNets. Admins can define overlays and deploy them across many remotes. This will be helpful for orgs to have a standardized network build across multiple datacenters.
Also, if you are building VLAN aware bridges, EVPN overlays, or even more advanced SDN configurations, the centralized management will definitely help prevent a lot of duplicated config efforts, etc.
Central update management
When it comes to having virtualized environments with multiple Proxmox VE server hosts and clusters, keeping these updated has been a very manual task having to update each cluster manually. Datacenter Manager changes that. Now you have a unified updated management panel that shows all updates for all connected Proxmox servers.
Admins can now trigger updates directly from Datacenter Manager and they also have logging for update operations and patches. This will be a great step forward not only for management but also for security operations.
Installing Proxmox Datacenter Manager
Proxmox Datacenter Manager is easily installed by downloading the ISO image from Proxmox and going through the installation process. First, download the ISO image from here:
Here you can download the ISO installer, Datasheet, and the Admin Guide. As you can see the ISO is around 1.5 GB.
Upload your PDM ISO.
The ISO uploads successfully.
Beginning the install of Proxmox Datacenter Manager.
Accept the EULA.
Choose the target disk for the installation.
Set the location and timezone.
Configure the admin password and email address.
Set the management network config, hostname, IP, gateway, DNS, etc.
Summary screen.
The server boots to the console prompt.
The login screen for Proxmox Datacenter Manager.
Resources
Below are the resource links for the release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager:
- ISO Image Download: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads
- Roadmap: For published and upcoming features, see the Release Notes & Documentation
Wrapping up
Proxmox Datacenter Manager is the tool that everyone I think has been waiting on in the Proxmox ecosystem, a viable centralized management tool. Up until now, we have been managing each host, cluster, and backup server as a standalone environment. Now, though, this gives us the ability to management everything from one dashboard and see the health, metrics, updates, and other relevant information from that centralized location. For home labs I think this is going to be incredible and give us what we have been needing for a while. And certainly for production environments, this makes Proxmox an even more viable solution for the enterprise. What about you? Are you planning on installing the new GA release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager?
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