In the Proxmox GUI, Datacenter is the main level folder of Proxmox Node/VM tree. Each Datacenter can only hold one Proxmox cluster. Any tasks performed through the Datacenter menu affects the cluster as a whole.
It is very easy to manage a cluster with a small number of virtual machines with an even smaller number of Proxmox and storage nodes. When maintaining a large number of virtual machines and Proxmox nodes, the search feature prevents you from scrolling and manually looking for a particular resource. Scrolling through a list of virtual machines to find a particular one becomes very time-consuming for a busy administrator. This is where the Search menu option can come in handy. The following screenshot shows a search result after typing the partial virtual machine name in the search box in our example cluster:
The search box under Datacenter | Search shows the results in real time as you type in the box. It can search with any string in the Type...
