Recent content by dazza76

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    Proxmox 7 -8 upgrade Use of uninitialized value $nodename

    Fix for this was to systemctl restart pve-ha-crm then wait for some time for it to resolve we then created a tool to cycle through the vms on each host and deactivate ha and re-enable Hope this helps somebody
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    Proxmox 7 -8 upgrade Use of uninitialized value $nodename

    We are in the process of upgrading our cluster from 7 to 8, and had an issue where all the confgis had dissapeared luckly we had a back up of all the config files -- extracted from backups. but now we have an issue with the ha-manager ha-manager status | head unable to read file...
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    Proxmox nodes rebooting in cluster

    if you can you should look at using the hardware watchdog then you have lots of options then.
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    Temp disable of watchdog (Softdog)

    Thanks Aaron , will give that ago , Its actually the FC channel switch that seems to be more sensitive of the switches. I can replicate by flapping the FC connection manually. i.e echo “0000:3c:00.0” > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/qla2xxx/unbind To active port again: echo “0000:3c:00.0” >...
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    Temp disable of watchdog (Softdog)

    I have a scenario where i need to do some upgrades on switches and fibre channel devices , and I know by experience it causes the watchdog to get annoyed and reboot. Questions: Is it possible to just stop the Watchdog-mux service and it wont reboot ? is there another way to temp disable the...
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    LDAP sync

    FYI ldap: jumpcloud base_dn ou=Users,o=**************,dc=jumpcloud,dc=com server1 ldap.jumpcloud.com user_attr uid bind_dn uid=ldap_sync,ou=Users,o=**************,dc=jumpcloud,dc=com capath /etc/ssl/certs/jumpcloud.ldap.pem default 1 group_classes groupOfNames...
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    Large backup folder 7200 files

    Sure the cluster was is using proxmox-ve: 7.2-1 (running kernel: 5.15.64-1-pve) here is a screen shot of the memory usage Example of the ps aux output root 94929 1.2 10.4 21265700 13701000 ? R 00:36 3:39 pvedaemon worker so in 36 seconds it consumed 10.4% of the available...
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    Large backup folder 7200 files

    Hello Chris , Yes single nfs share for backups. We have worked out that the ganesha-nfs process on the backup location needed a good kick and it seems a bit happier now can still be slow. Using the standard backup process you dont have a choice where to put the files if you have a suggested...
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    Large backup folder 7200 files

    We have 300 vms on a few hosts keeping 12 backups. we are finding we are hitting some sort of limit with this number of backups on an nfs share previously it used to just time out , but you could click it again an it would load , now it chews out all the ram in the host till it dies. when i say...
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    Proxmox Backup virtualised

    Hello , I have attempted to install the backup server on proxmox as i have a desire to connect it to remote storage. Eventually i would like to move it to baremetal but would like to test first. Install fails similar to installing proxmox in a vm i.e checking for vt extensions. Any hints to...
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    Proxmox Backup (too many files in folder makes it slow to view)

    Has anybody go a solution for too many files in the backup location. Say you have 90 days worth of backups for each host incremental or full .. I note when you hit over 4k files ( including log files) in the backup folder it basically becomes unusable. Of course you could create multiple backup...
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    3par Multipath iscsi best settings

    Hello all , I have been running a 3par cluster for some time now and some times I dont feel we have it optimised as well as we could . we have 4 x10ge using openvswitch soft-slb and 4 peers active on the 3par. What multipath optimisations have other people been using defaults {...
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    [SOLVED] proxmox 4.2 and ip_nat_ftp

    sad to say reboot was required ,, solved
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    [SOLVED] proxmox 4.2 and ip_nat_ftp

    thanks , I can now see it but it will not load modinfo ip_nat_ftp filename: /lib/modules/4.2.8-1-pve/kernel/net/netfilter/nf_nat_ftp.ko alias: ip_nat_ftp description: ftp NAT helper author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> license: GPL srcversion...