Open source

cv4pve

The tools we build for Proxmox VE, public since 2016. Written for our own daily work and released because other people needed them too.

What the suite contains

Management

cv4pve-admin
Web platform for managing clusters: like vCenter, but for Proxmox VE.
cv4pve-cli
kubectl-style command line with multi-cluster support.
cv4pve-api-powershell
PowerShell module for automating the cluster: the PowerCLI equivalent. Over half a million downloads on the PowerShell Gallery.
cv4pve-report
Exports the infrastructure to Excel, HTML or JSON. The RVTools equivalent.
cv4pve-diag
Diagnostics and cluster health checks.

Continuous protection

cv4pve-autosnap
Automatic recurring snapshots of machines and containers, with retention policies. For going back hours, not days.
cv4pve-node-protect
Backup and restore of node configuration: the part machine backups do not cover.

Access

cv4pve-vdi
Desktop VDI client: SPICE, VNC, RDP and SSH consoles.
cv4pve-pepper
Opens a machine’s SPICE or VNC console from the command line, without going through the web interface.
cv4pve-botgram
Telegram bot to manage and monitor the cluster from a phone.

Monitoring

cv4pve-metrics-exporter
Prometheus exporter for nodes, machines, containers and storage.

API libraries

The same calls, from whichever language you already use

For the community

awesome-proxmox-ve
The collection of documentation, tools, guides and resources for Proxmox VE that we maintain for anyone working with it. Not our software: a map of what exists.

What people say

If you have ever wanted to have something like RVTools that we have had for years in VMware environments, cv4pve-report is a tool that provides that functionality for you.
Brandon LeeVirtualizationHowto
Better than the usual ZFS snapshot scripts, as it makes use of the PVE API, so data integrity is kept, as it will fsfreze and flush caches before snapshotting.
Dunuinforum.proxmox.com
Think of it as vCenter reimagined for the Proxmox ecosystem: except lighter, faster, and built with modern .NET technologies.
Mohamed Idbrahimbrightcoding.dev
Cv4pve-autosnap on Proxmox is a tried and tested tool that, with a little bit of configuration, can take snapshots of individual servers or entire nodes.
First2Hostfirst2host.co.uk

Why we release them

We write them because we need them: we run clusters every day and some things Proxmox VE does not do out of the box. Keeping them to ourselves would gain us nothing, while publishing them means other people try them, report problems and sometimes improve them. It is the same reason we use free software on client projects.

Commercial support

The tools are free and stay that way. Teams running them in production can buy support: it is how the development sustains itself, and whoever answers is the person who writes the code.