As businesses increasingly migrate to virtualized environments, service providers are on the lookout for robust solutions that offer the flexibility of cloud infrastructure and the cost-effectiveness of on-premises systems. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a powerful open-source platform that increasingly stands out as an excellent choice for service providers aiming to implement multi-tenant architectures. In this blog, we will explore how service providers can effectively leverage Proxmox in multi-tenant environments alongside Veeam for complete data resilience.
Why Veeam Partners Should Consider Proxmox
Proxmox VE is an open-source virtualization management platform that supports various storage solutions, network configurations, and backup options, making it ideal for service providers managing multiple tenants. Additionally, SMB customers, often an ideal prospect for service providers, are also considering Proxmox. Proxmox has proven to be cost-efficient when IT budgets and resources continue to shrink. Veeam released support for Proxmox VE in 2024, further driving home the possibility of migrating to this platform, with a robust data protection vendor and strategy to support.
Why is this partnership particularly valuable to Veeam partners? It unlocks a new customer base, helps retain your existing customers and supports cost-optimization efforts. But this is only one viewpoint. It can also be considered for your business — think of the Service Provider Data Protection use case.
Key Benefits for Service Provider Use Cases
For service providers that host and deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, Proxmox can be a viable platform to build, host and deliver services from. Proxmox provides cost efficiency alongside scalability and flexibility. Plus, with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Service Provider Console, using Proxmox in an MSP Backup offering can easily become a reality. Combined with Veeam, you can expect:
- Cost efficiency: Proxmox is cost efficient being open source and using it can help you build and offer a competitively priced offering. Plus, with support in Veeam Data Platform, you can ensure your data is recoverable, portable and resilient. Proxmox also offers a rigorously tested repository, remote support, and aggressive support response time for paid subscription users.
- Scalable and flexible: Proxmox is scalable leveraging virtual machines (KVM) and containers (LXC) with resource isolation. Proxmox utilizes a web-based management interface, mobile application, or REST API for remote management. Additionally, Proxmox provides clustering of hypervisor nodes which enables a unique multi-master design and live migration of running VMs.
- Enhanced data protection: Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup and restore for Proxmox VMs with the ability to create several copies of the backup data in multiple locations. You can restore within the Proxmox VE environment or to another platform in a few clicks.
- Cross-platform support: One of our core principles at Veeam is data portability. This absolutely applies to Proxmox VE too. You can restore VMs from Proxmox VE to VMware, Hyper-V, public cloud and vice versa. Whether you are looking to migrate the data completely or restore temporarily due to an event, either scenario is covered.
- Ransomware protection: Data security is front and center with Veeam. You can leverage immutable storage for your Proxmox workloads, whether it’s on-premises or in the public cloud. Veeam ONE also monitors Veeam backups, bringing Proxmox into the Veeam Threat Center for complete visibility for your tenants.
- Multi-tenant management: While Proxmox has its own web interface with an intuitive dashboard, Veeam supports Veeam Backup for Proxmox data within Veeam Service Provider Console. Veeam Service Provider Console is a free monitoring and management tool for Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. Console supports multi-tenant monitoring, reporting and billing for Proxmox VE (in addition to oVirt KVM, VMware vSphere and more).
Veeam and Proxmox architecture summary overview. See more detail in the Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE User Guide.
Better Together
While Proxmox VE is taking SMB organizations by storm, service providers can certainly leverage this platform too. Whether it’s in your own environment or in managed backup scenarios, Veeam has you covered. Cost efficiency, scalability combined with powerful data protection, partners can deliver BaaS & DRaaS solutions with radical resilience. Get started with free trials of Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE and Veeam Service Provider Console.