Recent content by CRCinAU

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    How migrate from IBM Tivoli / Spectrum protect to PBS?

    I wish I knew :) This issue bit me when I thought that the RAID5 would be sufficient to at least keep the tape index alive. When that index / database goes, TSM has no idea what is on the tapes or how to restore any of it. I kept the tapes I had for many years hoping for a way to be able to...
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    How migrate from IBM Tivoli / Spectrum protect to PBS?

    From having used TSM in a previous life, *DO NOT* remove your TSM installation if you want any hope of restoring a TSM backup. The database is kept on the installation as to where to reach / find any data stored on the tapes. If this is lost, you will not be able to restore anything from your...
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    Windows VM High Memory Consumption and Host Memory Reporting Discrepancy

    Linux and Windows guests get handled differently. Windows will claim and zero all RAM at the VM start - which causes the VM to use your entire allocation just seconds after boot. Ballooning and KSM will kick in at about 80% of your host systems RAM usage to start telling the VMs to balloon and...
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    [March 2026] Proxmox Backup Client - Unofficial ARM64 Install for Ubuntu Server 25.10?

    In my home lab, I use this script to download the latest deb package for aarch64 and extract the binary to be used on random aarch64 boards. #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail REPO="wofferl/proxmox-backup-arm64" INSTALL_DIR="/usr/local/bin" TMPDIR="$(mktemp -d)" trap 'rm -rf "$TMPDIR"'...
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    Proxmox VE 9.2.21 - BCM57412 bnxt_en network failure after upgrade to kernel 7.0.14-20-pve

    For the record, did you install firmware 38.11.70.00 from: https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-au/product/poweredge-r750xa/drivers?driverid=F2K1J&driveros=naa&ld=F2K1J Your logs mention Firmware 236.1.167.0 pre-update. Annoyingly, from the dell web site - I can't seem to find a...
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    Opt-in Linux 7.0 Kernel for Proxmox VE 9 available

    I know that this is for a slight different model network adapter, however this may be useful: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-9-2-21-bcm57412-bnxt_en-network-failure-after-upgrade-to-kernel-7-0-14-20-pve.186749/ In that thread, the network card is a Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E...
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    Proxmox v9.2 installer freezes

    Specifically on the Ryzen CPU type - what happens if you add `iommu=pt` to the kernel command line on the installer?
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    QEMU 11.1 available on pve-test as of now

    Tested this on two Ryzen based nodes in a cluster. No issues detected so far. I did change the version manually on a Windows guest, that seemed to boot and operate ok. I did note however that I had to install the updates on both nodes in the 2 node cluster (+ qdevice) to be able to select it in...
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    SMTP with Microsoft 365

    In the past, I've used the primary MX server for a destination SMTP server. It's worked for me - but YMMV when it comes to your own delivery. I assume you're using your own domain - so you can do a `dig mx <yourdomain>` to find the primary MX server. It might be hit and miss - depending on...
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    Kernel 7.0.14-14-pve: immediate reset + CPU machine check when igb loads on I350 (Dell XC730xd) — 6.14 unaffected

    Thought I'd just chip in here too.... I run a Dell R730 in a colo facility - it hasn't had any issues with PVE9 or any of the release 7.0.x kernels. However, my system has the following network adapters installed: I am using 2 x 10Gb SFP+ ports on the 57800 NIC bonded using LACP / layer3+4...
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    What is proper way to make PVE host a dhcp client in 9.2 ?

    I'll be honest - I can see the idea for using DHCP to configure everything - but I can also see it being a gateway for pain. I'm not sure if you're looking at running more than one PVE host in a cluster - or this is a single server operation - but there are many more services that need a static...
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    Outgoing Emails Delivered to Spam

    Another thing to check - your reverse DNS entries in your first post seem to mention pmg01 and pmg02. From querying external DNS servers for your screenshotted PMG hosts, I see that pmg01 does not seem to have a reverse DNS entry for its IP address. These are *very* strictly enforced by the...
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    KVM NX huge page recovery burns a core per guest on kernel 7.0.x

    @waynej - I'm kind of curious - with your context history / session with claude, can you get it to review the last lot of commits to mmu.c in the 7.2 branch and see if it believes they may be related / some correlation between them? I'm curious what it says :)
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    KVM NX huge page recovery burns a core per guest on kernel 7.0.x

    Ok, I'm a sucker for weird things like this... I've got a couple of systems I can check too.. model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz Linux version 7.0.14-17-pve (build@proxmox) (gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC...
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    Is ProxMox right for me?

    I'm not even mad - that's actually an amazing use of a hook-script that I would have never thought of!