Recent content by Cecil

Veeam recently contacted me about adding lots more support specifically for proxmox if you are looking for a paid alternative. Probably fueled a little by the fun recent events at vmware that shone a bright light on proxmox as an alternative :D

Nice, glad to see they finally updated it!!! I gave up on ABB and switched to using a product called REAR (https://relax-and-recover.org)

This is a fairly old post but just ran into the same issue today... I managed to find a "nicer" solution to the linux headers problem but still ultimately could not get the backup agent working because the synosnap package is too old to run on modern proxmox I think. Anyways for those who...

Sofar after trying multiple options, no luck at all. Clonezilla cannot do a large partition to a smaller one even though 90% of it is empty space. Windows will not allow me to reduce the disk size, there are locked system files scattered all over the thing. I tried multiple defraggler runs and...

Click on the VM and at the top of the screen: This will be similar to pulling the cord on a running system so only a last resort.

I recently did an upgrade from 5 to 7, the only way to do it is one version at a time. Start here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_4.x_to_5.0 Once you get to 5 the upgrade to 6 is similar but there is a new command pve5to6 you can run first to give you a test if things will work. As...

For something complicated like that, why not pass the entire host usb port? That way you don't have to mess with multiple individual things to pass through.

I've read countless threads that all say "you can only increase disk size, no easy way to claw back unused space" Some people summarized say "backup and restore to smaller disk" but how ?! My specific situation: I just "upgraded" my single proxmox node into a 3 node cluster using NFS as the...

I think I found the answer, I simply added the NAS to my /etc/hosts and remounted the NFS Share by migrating off all vm from the node and unmounting it. It automatically remounted using the new subnet based on the host lookup. Setting the migration settings on the datacenter takes care of the...

I'm in the process of upgrading my existing 3 node cluster with 10gbs ethernet cards and was wondering what the best way forward is. All 3 nodes are using the current version of proxmox 7 and I'm using a shared NFS Storage disk between them. I wanted to separate the current 1gb network from...

I added the users but still no dice, I followed this guide and was able to add the datastore. ( https://geekistheway.com/2021/03/07/how-to-setup-nfs-on-synology-nas-for-proxmox-backup-server-to-use-as-datastore/) It still doesn't work right but At least I was able to add a datastore instead of...

Thanks for the response, I read both those links before. The second one says : At the moment with my current setup that I'm looking to replace the option is certainly not there. Right now I have lvm-thin on a hw raid controller. I also scanned through the iscisi vs nfs thread, not sure by how...

I've been searching all day for answers and I'm so confused now. What I want to do: Backup my VM's to a Synology NAS. Use a different Synology NAS to host my VM's (with caching and 10Gb ethernet) Set up two proxmox nodes in cluster to allow me to migrate VM's if one fails with the same shared...

I stumbled upon this guide this morning that's designed for lvm-thin storage! Maybe proxmox documentation can include something like this as well? https://www.sysorchestra.com/2017/03/16/migrate-vmware-esxi-virtual-machines-to-proxmox-kvm-with-lvm-thin-logical-volumes/ Anyway it gave me the...

So I've looked at a ton of guides on this and they all want to make cows (qcow files) but I'm using lvm-thin on proxmox 5 which no longer does qcow I believe.. So I found a guide that says to just extract the ova file and then use the command: qm importovf No problemo, I have a usb drive...