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Last week we finalized the upgrade of our Proxmox Mail Gateway from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. This was quite challenging due to the number of changed packages.

The easiest part was the migration and update of the Proxmox OpenVZ template – and that’s why we all love OpenVZ. Now, the Mail Gateway 2.0 can run on OpenVZ and Virtuozzo with just a few clicks, see the Wiki

For doing a backup of a running VPS, we use vzdump, which is now production ready and available in version 1.0.

I remember the dark days where we did Linux distribution upgrades on production machines on the weekend and in long nights, always with high risk of service interruption, without the use of OS virtualization. Now, the weekends are back again ;-)

OpenVZ will not save the world, but makes life much easier.

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dowdle
Jul. 14th, 2007 04:24 pm (UTC)
I agree
I agree with you completely about how OpenVZ makes system management so much easier... being able to migrate VPSes from one machine to another to schedule downtime... not caring about the differences in hardware.

I've been looking into the Proxmox product. Seems pretty interesting. I work for the Computer Science Department at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana (USA) and so far I've been creating mail relays with VPSes and they work really well. What impresses me about the Proxmox product is the custom web interface and interaction with the users with the individualized SPAM report. I wish I had that.

I've been considering trying the free version. My only concern is that I'll like it... and just have to have it... and then it is a question of the annual licensing costs... and the burden on our budget that will be getting cut over the next few years. I know Proxmox has educational pricing but it would be nice to have some idea just what that is before I get too deep in. No, I haven't mailed sales yet.

Even though I work for the CS Department, this is something that the entire College of Engineering would like to use... and given the fact that there is a sub-domain for every department... I'm thinking it would cost a fortune for say... three relay machines (OpenVZ of course) and about 15 or so sub-domains.

My existing homebrew mail relays aren't bad... but they don't have the fancy and informative web interface.
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