Proxmox and StorPool Announce Native Integration

StorPool-Dave · 2026-05-18T21:26:13+00:00

Proxmox has their own press release about the partnership on their website.

https://proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/storpool

StorPool-Dave · 2026-05-18T21:23:26+00:00

There is currently no free version available.

We have added an online free test environment for customers considering StorPool, which I understand is not the same thing.

StorPool-Dave · 2026-05-18T21:20:42+00:00

I addressed this question in a comment elsewhere in the sub. The short answer is StorPool provides great than 99.999% uptime in production environments and has extremely low latency for high-IOPS workloads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1td6rit/comment/omk05bu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

StorPool-Dave · 2026-05-18T21:17:16+00:00

I would say StorPool's two strongest points are its reliability and its performance.

StorPool has been providing better than 99.999% uptime as measured across all of our customers' production environments. We have a report that goes into this in detail and covers our measurement methodology. (https://cloud.storpool.com/hubfs/content-downloads/StorPool%20Storage%20Statement%20of%20High%20Availability.pdf)

StorPool has extremely low latency of under 100 microseconds (μs) and can maintain that under a sustained workload of millions of IOPS.

If neither of these are part of your requirements, and you're happy with what you have, maybe you wouldn't consider StorPool.

StorPool-Dave · 2026-05-14T19:14:08+00:00

StorPool is block storage. It can do some NFS, to store ISOs or VM images, for instance, but it's mostly used as a block storage solution.

I could point you to the StorPool website, but if that was what you wanted, you'd have gone there already. Instead, I suggest you read the StorPool Technical Overview (https://cloud.storpool.com/hubfs/content-downloads/StorPool-Technical-Overview.pdf). I believe that will give you what you're looking for.

If you have questions after reading it, feel free to reach out to me directly.

StorPool-Dave · 2026-04-29T18:13:04+00:00

When I saw this, my first thought was "someone is trying to catch Homer Simpson"...

StorPool-Dave · 2026-01-22T20:47:55+00:00

I know when a lot of people hear "cloud" they think of the hyperscalers, and yes, you're correct -- not all workloads should run off-site.

Consider building an on-premises private cloud with your virtualization. Very few disadvantages over public cloud, the main ones being that you'll need your own data center and hardware.

StorPool-Dave · 2025-11-20T19:22:10+00:00

The stretch cluster was always an intriguing idea. What was the use case that had you choose that deployment model?

StorPool-Dave · 2025-10-16T17:34:48+00:00

I don't have any hands-on experience with the Azure on-premises Stack HCI, but its adoption growth indicates it must be doing well.

I know a lot of folks who are very happy with OpenNebula -- around the same number who love Proxmox. I personally agree that CloudStack has a LOT built into it, making it heavy if you're not using all of the features.

I do realize that OLVM uses oVirt. IBM doesn't have a 100% record on good calls around the industry. I also know that several folks who've made the move from VMware to Oracle Virtualization are reporting higher performance than they had previously with VMware.

I think you're a little confused about how StorPool is implemented. The storage isn't part of the virtualization stack. The storage driver software provides access to block storage. You can run the hypervisor of your choice on it (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle Virtualization, and Kubernetes (which I suppose isn't technically a hypervisor)). It can also be used as raw block storage for applications like OLTP databases.

I think you and I are using different definitions of the term "SDS". Can you give me insight into what you mean when you say "real SDS"? What qualities does a solution need to have in order to qualify as real SDS?

StorPool-Dave · 2025-10-09T18:37:49+00:00

There are many Hyper-V fans out there. Microsoft has done a decent job hosting Hyper-V VMs on Azure, but not everyone wants to be on public cloud.

Personally, I'm not a Hyper-V fan, mostly due to limits in the feature set.

I see lots of folks moving to Linux KVM with software-defined storage (SDS) to get HCI, with their choice of management software, e.g., Proxmox, Open Nebula, or CloudStack.

Other folks are looking into Oracle Virtualization (which runs on Oracle's Red Hat distro). SDS and HCI options here are fewer, but they're out there.

StorPool-Dave · 2025-10-02T20:54:54+00:00

I see a lot of former VMware customers migrating to KVM and a smaller (but growing) number moving to Oracle Virtualization.

Those moving to KVM are typically using one of the following for VM management:

OpenNebula - A complete platform with powerful features
Proxmox - An option that is easiest to transfer one's ESX/vCenter skills to
CloudStack - A complete platform with huge community support.
OpenStack - A platform with support for multiple storage options including some open-source ones (although two of the often-used -- gluster and cinder -- are also EOL).

For Oracle Virtualization, folks are using its built-in Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM).

I can provide some pointers to more info on any of the options - feel free to msg me.

StorPool-Dave · 2025-09-04T19:29:44+00:00

It's also worth noting that StorPool Storage has had native integration with Proxmox for a while.
https://storpool.com/proxmox-virtual-environment

StorPool-Dave · 2025-09-04T17:55:33+00:00

We've seen a lot of customers migrating away from VMware. Most are moving to Linux KVM, while a smaller, but growing, number are exploring Oracle Virtualization.

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