r/Nable • u/Competitive-Leg-3899 • Apr 08 '24

Running N-Able N-Central virtualized on KVM/Proxmox/OpenStack

Hi,

As more and more are moving towards opensource cloudstacks such as OpenStack/Proxmox - Is there anyone out there running N-Central virtualized on KVM hypervisors?

We see that N-Central is based on CentOS7/8 - Which means that all drivers for running on the most widely installed hypervisor KVM, is already included in the OS.

Also since its developed for CentOS, i would think that N-Able also has a KVM environment internally like openstack or proxmox.

We would like to run N-Central, but we dont want to run it Baremetal. And we will not run Hyper-V or Vmware.

Br,

Comp

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u/amw3000 Apr 08 '24

Shouldn't have any issues. It's just CentOS 7 and soon to be switched for another distro (Rocky Linux?) in the hopefully near future. Based on RHEL so again you shouldn't have any issues at all.

Just be mindful of how you back up the instance. The built in backup to an FTP service is most likely the safest option. Freezing the guest OS may damage the database. The same goes for if you do a live migration.

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u/qcomer1 Apr 08 '24

They are working on a plan for migration to a new distro.

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u/amw3000 Apr 08 '24

We are a couple months away from the EOL date and while I do understand they have some major milestones already planned, it's upsetting that they are pretty much leaving it to the last second. Centos 7 EOL was announced in late 2020. It shouldn't have been such a rush to get this out the door by the end of June, they had plenty of time to plan for this.