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SOLTECSIS – Partner of the Year 2025 by OVHcloud

Carles — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:01:10 +0000

We are 2025 Partner of the Year of OVHcloud!!!

Last Thursday, June 5th, we took part in the Backstage25 event organised by OVHcloud in Madrid, at the Florida Park venue in El Retiro Park.

Our CEO Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó took part in the round table dedicated to hyperconvergence, where he spoke about how the Proxmox VE ecosystem from Proxmox Server Solutions, combined with the bare-metal services from OVHcloud, enables the creation of hyperconverged cloud clusters for virtualisation based on Proxmox VE and Ceph technology. In addition, these platforms support backup and DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) solutions and make use of the 3-AZ region to create highly resilient and fault-tolerant virtualisation platforms.

The event kicked off with great energy thanks to a spectacular batucada, very much in line with what OVHcloud usually delivers at this kind of event.

Our on-stage participation took place during the round table on hyperconvergence.

We were asked the following questions:

SOLTECSIS is specialised in Proxmox. Carles, could you tell us what value Soltecsis offers to its clients?

First of all, EXPERIENCE and PROFESSIONALISM.

Our company was founded in 2008, the same year the first version of Proxmox VE was released. Since then, we’ve been working with Proxmox, experimenting and learning with each new version, which has given us 17 years of experience in Proxmox solutions of various types and scales.
We are the only GOLD PARTNER IN SPAIN and the only OFFICIAL TRAINER IN SPANISH, which makes us the reference partner not only in Spain, but also in all Spanish-speaking countries.

Secondly, a MAJOR COST REDUCTION, across all levels (hardware, licences, deployment, maintenance, etc.), and most importantly, WITHOUT SACRIFICING TECHNOLOGY.

Use case: This week we completed the migration of a large multinational with a presence in 12 countries. Their previous virtualisation solution was based on Blade servers, 8 blades, disk enclosure, etc. A very expensive solution in terms of hardware. We deployed a three-node hyperconverged virtualisation cluster with Proxmox VE Ceph, using a mesh network, which lowers network hardware costs, no RAID controller needed, major licence cost reductions, etc.
With the new virtualisation infrastructure, Windows virtual machines that used to take minutes to boot NOW BOOT IN 5 SECONDS.

What advantages does OVHcloud offer when deploying Proxmox-based hyperconverged virtualisation?

The word that best defines these advantages is: VERSATILITY

– We can deploy Proxmox-based hyperconverged virtualisation clusters using OVH bare-metal services in the same way we would in an on-premises installation.

– We can easily scale our cluster by adding new servers with just a few clicks, or even completely upgrade our physical servers with new ones without ever having to interrupt the virtualisation service.

– We can make use of the 3-AZ REGION, improving the resilience of our cluster.

– We can set up BACKUPS with PBS in other data centres or countries.

– Various DRP options, for example, with real-time replication in other data centres, allowing recovery by moving public IPs through vRACK.

At the end of the gala, the awards ceremony took place, and to our great surprise, we were nominated and won in the Partner of the Year 2025 category.

Many thanks to the event organisers and all the staff at OVHcloud for your warmth, kindness, and the outstanding treatment you always give us.

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2024 – SME Innovation Projects (INNOVA-CV)

Carles — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:10:22 +0000

SOLTECSIS SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGICAS, S.L. has carried out the project entitled “Innovation in the FWCloud Application: Boosting Security with AI and Advanced Management of VyOS Devices,” funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and included within the SME INNOVATION PROJECTS (INNOVA-CV) grant program, within the InnovaTEIC Innovation initiative, with funding from the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (€55,443.73).

The project aims to develop software that improves the FWCloud platform, incorporating new technologies and advanced functionalities to optimize firewall management. This project will introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance system security by analyzing security policy scripts before applying them to the firewall, in order to identify potential vulnerabilities. Additionally, the ability to manage VyOS devices directly from the FWCloud console will be implemented, providing more efficient centralized management. Additionally, the installation process will continue to be optimized through the use of DMB and RPM repositories, and new plugins will be integrated to further simplify system service management. This approach will allow users to manage their firewall environments more securely and efficiently, utilizing the most advanced security and network management technologies.

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Subsidy granted by the Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism

Carles — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:07:18 +0000

SOLTECSIS SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGICAS S.L. has carried out actions focused on expenses for international promotional material, for which it has received aid through the current Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism included within the aid program to promote the internationalization of exporting SMEs in the Valencian Community for the year 2024.

The project, with file number INTPRM/2024/195, has been supported with a grant of €3,620.00.

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Proxmox VE Ceph cluster and DRP using OVHcloud dedicated servers

Carles — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:08:47 +0000

Introduction

OVHcloud’s IaaS (Infraestructure as a Service) services allow us to hire dedicated servers (bare metal) for rent that we can have at our disposal in a matter of minutes. There is a wide range of options (rise, advance, storage, scale, high quality, etc.) from which we can choose according to our needs.

In this article we will see how we can use these dedicated servers to create Proxmox VE Ceph Clusters with the same functionalities that we would have if we used proprietary servers in our facilities (on premises). In addition, we will see how OVHcloud services allow us to create a very complete DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) to achieve maximum resilience for our data

Ceph Proxmox VE Cluster

A cluster of Proxmox VE servers combined with a Ceph distributed storage system allows you to create a highly available, load-balanced, horizontally scalable, hyperconverged virtualization infrastructure with ease.

Let’s first look at some concepts to fully understand what a Proxmox VE Ceph Cluster is.

What is a cluster?

A cluster in computing refers to a group of interconnected computers or nodes that function together as if they were a single entity. Clusters are used to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of applications and services. There are different types of clusters, but in general they share the objective of providing greater processing capacity and redundancy.

What is Ceph?

Ceph is a distributed storage system designed to provide object, block, and file storage in a single unified cluster. . Proxmox can use Ceph as a virtual machines storege.

What is a Proxmox VE Ceph cluster?

It is three or more servers forming part of a Proxmox cluster and using Ceph as a distributed storage system, all managed from the Proxmox web interface, thanks to which we achieve a hyperconverged virtualization infrastructure.

What is hyperconvergence?

A hyperconverged virtualization infrastructure is an integrated system that combines compute, storage, and networking in a single environment. This simplifies management, improves efficiency, and enables easy scalability, making it easy to create and manage virtual machines in a single cluster.

By means of the OVHcloud dedicated server service we can create a Proxmox VE Ceph cluster with three or more nodes in the same way that we would do if we acquired our own servers to create the cluster in our facilities, but with the versatility and advantages that come with using rental servers instead of proprietary hardware, among which we can mention:

Abstraction of the hardware layer since any breakdown will be solved by OVHcloud and, if necessary, they will replace the damaged parts or even the entire server.
We forget about hardware obsolescence. After a few years we will be able to add new servers with the latest technologies to our cluster and eliminate the old ones in a completely transparent way for the user of the virtualization environment, without any interruption of service.
Easily add more nodes to our virtualization cluster to increase your computing power. In a matter of minutes we can have new servers that we can add to our cluster.

The large number of dedicated server options that OVHcloud makes available to its clients allows us to create Proxmox VE Ceph Clusters for practically any client. We can use different CPUs depending on our needs, large amounts of RAM, large NVMe disks, dedicated 25Gbps networks for Ceph communication, the vRACK service to connect our servers, dedicated IP ranges, etc. All this allows us to cover practically the needs of any client.

DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan)

A DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) is crucial to maintaining business operations in the event of disasters, guaranteeing the continuity and protection of essential data. It is very important to have a good DRP to ensure the resilience of the data.

What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?

Disaster Recovery Plan in IT refers to a set of strategies, policies and procedures that an organization implements to restore its critical systems and data after a catastrophic event or disaster that causes significant disruptions to operations. normal.que cause interrupciones significativas en las operaciones normales.

These events may include:

Natural disasters: Such as earthquakes, floods, fires, storms, etc.
Man-made disasters: Such as cyber attacks, infrastructure failures, acts of vandalism, etc.

The goal of the Disaster Recovery Plan is to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity, allowing the organization to recover quickly after a disaster.

Below we will list several options, taking into account that our DRP may have some of these or even a combination of all of them, depending on the level of data resilience desired. Option 1: Proxmox VE Ceph Cluster distributed in OVHcloud 3-AZ region Our partner OVHcloud has a service called 3-AZ region thanks to which we can distribute a Proxmox VE Ceph Cluster made up of dedicated servers (bare metal) between three different data centers separated by a few tens of kilometers. These data centers that make up the 3-AZ region are interconnected through redundant fibers with minimal latency, thanks to which we can set up a Proxmox VE Ceph Cluster distributed within said region. This provides us with great resilience of the data against incidents located in one of the data centers since our virtualization service will not be affected by it.

Option 2: Proxmox Backup Server with frequent replication Make use of a Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) or by means of our PBS Online service in a data center (even a different country or continent) where you have a backup copy of all virtual machines, maintaining a history of various versions over time depending on the space available for copies. For those virtual machines that are more critical, you can even make more frequent copies (for example, every hour) so that if you have to activate the DRP, the data loss is as little as possible. This option can be implemented using the PBS Online service, the OVHcloud IaaS service to rent a dedicated server on which to install the PBS or any other cloud service or even own facilities in which to locate the PBS.

Option 3: Ceph Replicación Create a Proxmox VE Ceph Cluster identical to the production one in a data center geographically separated from the main cluster and activate Ceph replication between both clusters. This is the option with the least data loss if we compare it with option 2, but much more expensive since we have to have a cluster equal to the main cluster that we will only activate in case of disaster. This option can be implemented using the OVHcloud IaaS service, given that they have data centers distributed in several countries and continents. Therefore, it would be viable to host the main cluster in a data center and the replication cluster located in another country. It can also be implemented using different cloud providers and also on the customer’s premises if he has geographically separated data centers.

Conclusion

As we have seen throughout this article, we can create a hyperconverged virtualization infrastructure with great data resilience using the Proxmox VE hypervisor and dedicated OVHCloud servers. A Proxmox VE Ceph Cluster with three or more nodes located in a 3-AZ region of OVHcloud, in combination with a PBS (Proxmox Backup Server) hosted in a different data center and country is a highly available solution, with high scalability and with great data resilience. If we also add an identical cluster in another data center outside the 3-AZ region with real-time Ceph replication, we can have a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) that allows rapid disaster recovery.

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2023 – SME Innovation Projects (INNOVA-CV)

Carles — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:46:35 +0000

SOLTECSIS SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGICAS S.L., has carried out the project titled “Substantial technological improvements to improve functionality in the computer security application FWCloud” financed by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) included within the SME INNOVATION PROJECTS (INNOVA-CV) aid program, in the action of InnovaTEIC Innovation, with financing from the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund , the subsidy being €44,657.32.

The objective of the project is to improve Soltecsis’ FWCloud tool, focused on computer security, to simplify the management of computer resources related to business security, such as VPNs and firewalls. It seeks to address previous shortcomings and make it the preferred choice for system administrators. Technical goals include the incorporation of advanced functionality to consolidate FWCloud as the standard tool in Linux firewall management, including features such as NGFW and other improvements.

These types of subsidies are very useful to us to guarantee that we can continue investing in R+D+I in order to improve the solution FWCloud day by day.

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2022 – SME Innovation Projects (INNOVA-CV)

Carles — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:03:55 +0000

SOLTECSIS SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGICAS S.L has carried out the project entitled “Development of an advanced computer security application FWCloud” financed by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) included within the SME INNOVATION PROJECTS aid program (INNOVA-CV) , in the TEIC Innovation action, co-financed by the FEDER Funds within the FEDER Operational Program of the Valencian Community 2021-2027, with a subsidy of €46,813.00.

Through this aid, it has been possible to technologically improve the platform called FWCloud oriented towards computer security, whose objective is to simplify the administration and maintenance of computer resources (Networks, VPNs, firewalls, etc.) destined to guarantee the security of communications of a company. In this way, the objective is that the application becomes the standard tool for managing Linux firewalls.

These types of subsidies are very useful to us to guarantee that we can continue investing in R+D+I in order to improve the solution FWCloud day by day.

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New web online

Carles — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:55:27 +0000

SOLTECSIS began its journey at the beginning of August 2008, a little over 14 years ago. To make ourselves known and have a presence on the Internet, we created a website through which to show the world our entire range of products and services.

This website, which has been with us from the beginning and has been our showcase, needed a facelift in order to show a more modernized aesthetic, as well as a significant improvement in functionalities. In other words, we needed an evolution that would allow us to have a more practical and direct website that would show the world everything that we are capable of doing in the information technology sector.

For this reason, at the beginning of this year, we decided to ask TresTristesTigres to create a new web portal that would meet all these objectives.

We are proud to announce that today we finally have our new website online.

Among the numerous improvements that we have incorporated, we can highlight:

Direct and structured information. Now it is easier to understand what we do and what our business area is.
On-line shop. Initially for the acquisition of the Proxmox VE and FWCloud training courses, but we will expand it so that it can be used with our other numerous products and services.
Blog. Here we will publish articles related to our day to day. It will serve so that our experts can contribute their experiences, creativity and knowledge to the community.
SEO. The new website has been designed with search engine positioning in mind, to make it easier to find us.

We hope that the Internet community will like it and that it will help us to publicize our full potential in terms of information technology.

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