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I had a crash on one of my servers - all VMs have been moved by HA to other servers However, they all have been moved to only 2 servers instead of being distributed evenly so I ended up with 2 extremely busy servers and 3 completely empty Question: what is the algorithm / criteria used...

Hi, I used to use Proxmox 2.2 ( just upgraded today to 3) I noticed that, in the 2.2 version, HA enabled VMs have their MAC showing on both the current and previous host Could someone please confirm whether: - "start at boot" should be set to "yes" for HA enabled VMs - the above behaviour has...

Hi, I am trying to configure a new proxmox cluster using few blades ( ProLiant BL460c G1) and a MSA2012sa SAS enclosure The volume I created is being "recognized" as /dev/cciss/c1do and respectively /dev/cciss/c1d1 Unfortunately I am unable to configure multipathing If anyone had a similar...

Hi, I am a happy Proxmox 2.1 user I needed to start a new cluster so I decided to use the NEWEST version ( see below) The problem is that none of my volumes from HP MSA2012sa are being recognized most likely because qla2xxx module is not loaded Even after loading it manually, a...

Hi, Backups are very slow and , eventually crash the servers an excerpt from syslog shows: " ... kernel: ct0 nfs: server 10.10.19.49 not responding, still trying " " .. pvestatd[30186]: WARNING: command 'df -P -B 1 /mnt/pve/hugebackup' failed: got timeout .." I am pretty sure my...

Hi, I am trying to configure a Proxmox cluster few HP BL465c G7 blades connected to a HP P2000 SAN However, it seems that the latest kernel ( 2.6.32-17-pve ) is not playing nicely with the Brocade card as there is no connectivity with the SAN ( port shows no_sync) Same hardware works fine...

Hi, Is it possible to use pam_radius with PROXMOX ? We currently have Yubikey ( 2 factor authentication) and we would like to use it on our proxmox cluster too Since is using PAM I am assuming there should be no issues but...assumtions are the mother of all major mistakes ...so any...

Hi, I am trying to add an LDAP authentication to my Proxmox cluster Ive added the realm and the user but I cannot login because "no entries returned" I've read some other posts and it seems that this will work ONLY if anonymous search are allowed on the LDAP server Could someone please...

Hi, I cannot migrate a newly created VM on any of my nodes because its disk is not available Scenario create a new VM on primary node - all is well - see below the status of the volumes root@blh02-14:/backups# vgchange -ay 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "backup" now active...

Hi, I've encounter few instances where guests continue to run on a different blade after they have been migrated so, when starting the guest from its new location we have all kings of strange issues, including sporadic disconnection due to conflicting IP addresses The only solution I found so...

Hi, Is there an opensource ( or commercial) backup product that you would recommend ? What are people using to backup and dedupe their Windows and Linux guests ? Any help / suggestions /recommendations will be very appreciated Thanks Steven

Hi, I had a cluster with 7 nodes - one of them died so I removed it Now, for whatever reason, I cannot join one the nodes to the cluster Running "clustat" on it reports "Inquorate" although the same command on any other node report "quorate" Note: I reboot it few times with no effect and...

Hi, I've added a new node to my cluster on which I am unable to start fencing On blh02-12 : root@blh02-12#fence_tool join fence_tool: fenced not running, no lockfile I'd appreciate very much some tips about how to troubleshoot / which logs to check as, as far as I understood, the only think...

Hi, Is there a way to create/configure passthrough drives on Windows guests ? Let me explain/clarify My cluster is based on HP Blades and is using storage from SAN I am migrating windows guests from Hyper-v blades to Proxmox - they all share the same SAN Some Windows guest are using SAN LUNs...

HI, I just noticed that one of my nodes shows "red" in the console - all guest on it are showing as "off" However the node is up and the CLI commands are confirming that all services on it are up, it is part of the cluster and VM are up too This has happen with all browsers ( IE, Chrome...

Hi, I have a Proxmox cluster with 4 servers In order to solve a packet loss issue I decided to upgrade to the latest so I ran aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade on one of the server then rebooted Unfortunately this created a "chain reaction" as all the other servers stated to reboot...

Hi, I have noticed up to 10% packet loss for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guests with virtio network adapter Ubuntu 10.04 guest doesn't seem affected It seems there is a known bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/997978 is anyone else experiencing this issue ? Are there any...

Hi, I am migratting ( hyper-v) VHD to ( proxmox) raw Part of the process is to convert the vhd into raw using qemu-img convert -f vpc -O raw my_disk.vhd my_disk.raw My problem is that the result of the conversion is always 32Gb regardless of the size of the vhd Questions: 1. How do I...

Hi, I am trying to understand whether OpenVZ/Containers can be used in a clustered environment I have both Windows and Linux VMs and it seems there are quite a few advantages to have Linux running as CT However, when I try to create a new one the only storage option I get is "local" is it...

Hi, is there a tutorial/document/guide providing suggestions regarding how many VMs can run on a host with X cores ? I would also be very interested in some advice/details regarding how Proxmox deals with memory over-commiting For example, assuming all the VM's are configured with only 1 CPU...