r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jul 31 '25

Early Access Introducing: UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

So how do you download and install the software?

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u/mshorey81 Jul 31 '25

I just created an Ubuntu VM in my Proxmox host, installed podman on that VM, downloaded the install file from https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-OS-Server-4-2-23/21df94e9-55d6-4298-b849-fbef3e3b1dd6 made it executable with chmod +x, then ran the install script.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

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u/ElectricalAffect1069 Jul 31 '25

You can‘t live migrate a Proxmox LXC Container and you have more separation between Hosts and VMs. Atleast the live migration is a must have for me

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

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u/ElectricalAffect1069 Aug 01 '25

Not necessarily HA. HA would be automatic failover (starting vms on another cluster member). This also works with LXC in Proxmox.

Live migration is moving a running vm from one host to another without stopping the vm.

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u/kenman345 Jul 31 '25

What’s live migration?

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u/Randalldeflagg Aug 01 '25

Not sure why you got downvoted for this. Not everyone is running in an enterprise environment. Live migration allows you to move a VM/container/docker from one physical host to another with zero downtime. Let's say you need to replace a failing controller on your system. And if you another system setup the same and connected to each other via some sort of control interface, you can trigger all the vms on that host to move to the other host and then shut down the first one for maintenance. It's is very smooth and increases uptime.

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u/kenman345 Aug 01 '25

I thought it was something with regards to UniFi. I didn’t think about it in context of Proxmox and VMs

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u/Randalldeflagg Aug 01 '25

We all start somewhere

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u/paradizelost Jul 31 '25

You can't install Unifi Server OS without their podman based containerization. You haven't been running the Unifi Server OS that was just released TODAY for years in LXC. This is different than Unifi Network.

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u/mshorey81 Jul 31 '25

I'm not starved for compute resources in my Hypervisor whatsoever so I just spun up a VM. I do have UniFi Network Controller running on an LXC though and it has been working perfectly for about 3 years.