fosdem feedback

fosdem feedback

[DERUMIER, Alexandre]

Hi everybody,

sorry to be late but I was super busy at work after the Fosdem.


I would like first to thanks the proxmox teams && proxmox users
community for the help for the stand, this year was even more crazy
than last year !

I don't known if they was more people or maybe it was because we were
in the main building, but we don't have stopped all the weeks.

Maybe thanks to Fiona too for the Austrian biscuits ;)

Thanks to Gilou && Francois-Xavier !

Thanks to Pietro for helping too during the lunch time !



So about the stand:

We didn't have enough stickers as usual ,  maybe more XL t-shirt size
for next year could be great too. (less XS size too, sysadmins are
generally is little big ^_^ )


We had a lot of thank you from proxmox users, so I'm forwarding the
thanks you to all proxmox developpers !


A lot of people already known Proxmox (more than last year), 
a lot of people are looking to migrate from vmware too (thanks broadcom
) and also sovereignty was the big topic this year (thanks Trump ;)

Big companies, smaller companies, homelabers, public institutions,... 


People had a lot of feature requests too, here the main requests I'm
remembering:

- cross cluster vm replication for Disaster recovery (zfs, ceph for
now. qcow2 snap in the future if possible) --> this one was the more
requested

- better backup scheduling (currently a planned backup is launched on
all nodes at same time pushing too much network load, and it's
difficult to do node by node sequentially without an external
scheduling with script)

- pool quota  / tenant quota. (user can't create more than total vm
cpu/ram/disk on the pool)
- auto snapshot schedule
- vm load balancing (people coming from vmware want DRS)
- nodes rolling update for the whole cluster
- basic alerting on ressources (cpu,ram,....)
- user self service portal 
- vdi portal



Thanks you again for the help, and see you next year !  (or maybe at
Tuxis proxmox days, or another conference )


Alexandre

(BTW, can you send me the picture we have taken with the whole team ? )

Re: fosdem feedback

[François-Xavier Guidet]

Hi all !
I’d like to join Alexandre in thanking the whole Proxmox team and Daniella! I’m echoing what Alexandre said, and I’d like to add that it’s truly a pleasure to receive so many thanks and congratulations for the Proxmox solution. So congratulations to all of you guy's and to the whole company !
See you soon!
FX

Le jeudi 12/02/2026 09:19, DERUMIER, Alexandre <alexandre.derumier@groupe-cyllene.com> a écrit :

De : DERUMIER, Alexandre <alexandre.derumier@groupe-cyllene.com>
Envoyé le : jeudi 12/02/2026 09:19
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Cc : fxguidet@factorfx.com <fxguidet@factorfx.com>, daniela@proxmox.com <daniela@proxmox.com>, contact@gilouweb.com <contact@gilouweb.com>
Objet : fosdem feedback
Hi everybody,

sorry to be late but I was super busy at work after the Fosdem.


I would like first to thanks the proxmox teams && proxmox users
community for the help for the stand, this year was even more crazy
than last year !

I don't known if they was more people or maybe it was because we were
in the main building, but we don't have stopped all the weeks.

Maybe thanks to Fiona too for the Austrian biscuits ;)

Thanks to Gilou && Francois-Xavier !

Thanks to Pietro for helping too during the lunch time !



So about the stand:

We didn't have enough stickers as usual ,  maybe more XL t-shirt size
for next year could be great too. (less XS size too, sysadmins are
generally is little big ^_^ )


We had a lot of thank you from proxmox users, so I'm forwarding the
thanks you to all proxmox developpers !


A lot of people already known Proxmox (more than last year), 
a lot of people are looking to migrate from vmware too (thanks broadcom
) and also sovereignty was the big topic this year (thanks Trump ;)

Big companies, smaller companies, homelabers, public institutions,... 


People had a lot of feature requests too, here the main requests I'm
remembering:

- cross cluster vm replication for Disaster recovery (zfs, ceph for
now. qcow2 snap in the future if possible) --> this one was the more
requested

- better backup scheduling (currently a planned backup is launched on
all nodes at same time pushing too much network load, and it's
difficult to do node by node sequentially without an external
scheduling with script)

- pool quota  / tenant quota. (user can't create more than total vm
cpu/ram/disk on the pool)
- auto snapshot schedule
- vm load balancing (people coming from vmware want DRS)
- nodes rolling update for the whole cluster
- basic alerting on ressources (cpu,ram,....)
- user self service portal 
- vdi portal



Thanks you again for the help, and see you next year !  (or maybe at
Tuxis proxmox days, or another conference )


Alexandre

(BTW, can you send me the picture we have taken with the whole team ? )