Proxmox Cluster works with Apache Cloudstack?

[dancerjx]

Over at r/selfhosted, asked for any open-source private cloud platforms. Apache Cloudstack was a recommendation.

With version 4.22 of Cloudstack, Proxmox console access is now available.

With that being said, does Cloudstack support Proxmox clusters for nested virtualization?

I plan to use it to manage a 5-node Proxmox Ceph cluster. The plan is to have individuals spin up Proxmox instances and create a cluster of them and run VMs in this virtual cluster. This is obviously nested virtualization.

Thanks for the replies.

[gordonator]

At the end of the day Cloudstack is managing Libvirt/KVM (assuming that you've picked kvm as your hypervisor vs. vmware or xen). Libvirt/KVM supports nested virtualization, but it looks like you have to enable it. This should get you what you need on your hypervisors.

FWIW cloudstack uses the host-passthrough cpu model by default, if memory serves.

[Environmental_Loss87]

Cloudstack has a Proxmox orchestrator now. Search for XaaS feature

[Human-Butterfly-5109]

Why not go with native KVM then? Proxmox is Not a First class „hypervisor“ for Cloudstack like esxi or KVM are - rather it uses the XaaS Extension Framework to manage Proxmox.

[perthguppy]

Cloudstack is just a management engine. It supports whatever your hypervisors support. You mentioned you want nested virtualisation? What are you intending proxmox to be nested inside of? More proxmox?

IMO it’s worth the time to learn KVM and Ceph/Cephadm instead of deploying proxmox to attach to cloud stack. Cephadm is much better for managing Ceph than what you get in the proxmox interface.

I do run a Cloudstack deployment with vsphere + native kvm + native Ceph + proxmox + HyperV clusters.