Recent content by hotwired007

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    Snapshot option greyed out

    I'm having an issue with my proxmox server and snapshots - the option is greyed out and i cant work out why? any suggestions? Its a linux KVM running on a SAN.
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    TASK ERROR: can't activate LV : Unable to resume Resume (253:4)

    Ok - figured it out - Proxmox has set the ResearchSAN drive to 20TB but the disk is only 10TB so it can't load. I've increased the SAN VHDD to 20TB to match proxmox - is there anyway i can refresh all the iSCSI/multipath connections to show that i've increased the storage size (without rebooting?)
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    TASK ERROR: can't activate LV : Unable to resume Resume (253:4)

    I migrated a local disk to our SAN so i can extend the size - currently 1.5TB and planned to extend to 10TB after a successful migration i get this error: TASK ERROR: can't activate LV '/dev/ResearchSAN/vm-104-disk-2': Unable to resume ResearchSAN-vm--104--disk--2 (253:4) any ideas? I have...
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    Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16) - suppress message?

    I am getting this message in my syslog for every connection over iSCSI to my SAN (8 sd* devices) - according to this post: http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/11888-sd-4-0-0-0-sdc-Very-big-device-Trying-to-use-READ its not an issue... How can i stop/hide/suppress the message from flooding the...
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    iSCSI/Multipathing - possible broadcom iSCSI offload issues?

    had to swap to a different server - but TOE was enabled the high CPU was actually a high load speed - CPU usage was minimal. It was the switch causing the issue - HP 2920-48G - i've created an iSCSI VLAN and turned on flow-control for all the iSCSI ports - read speeds are upto around 300mb with...
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    iSCSI/Multipathing - possible broadcom iSCSI offload issues?

    I have a Dell R815 server with 8x Broadcom BCM5709 connected to a QSAN Q500-P10 SAN (16x 3TB) but i'm having an issue with the iSCSI/multipath performance - when doing perfomance tests with fio i am getting maximum throughput of 200MB/s on RAID0 when reading and massive CPU load. When doing a...
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    Guest machine with more than 512GB RAM?

    Yeah - i've just tried it with 995GB (1018880) RAM and it boots fine :)
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    Guest machine with more than 512GB RAM?

    I have updated my VM to have 1TB RAM (1048576) in the 100.conf file - now i'm getting 'PANIC: early exception 08 rip 246:10' on the debian machine. (my Ubuntu refuses to boot with same config) When i update it to 512GB (524288) it works as expected. With 756GB (786432) is works fine too. The...
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    Guest machine with more than 512GB RAM?

    I have a new server that we are testing Proxmox on: Dell R815 - 4x 16c @ 2.5GHz CPU, 1TB RAM, 6x 600GB HDD. Is it possible to create a VM with more than 512GB through the GUI or can i only do it by modifying the VM file through the CLI? Thanks
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    Install desktop and browser on Proxmox Host server?

    my test proxmox box is needed toto power a web-based dashboard connected to a screen. It shouold only be short term but it would be useful rather than to blow my proxmox system away. is there a tried/tested method to install a desktop and browser instance on the server? (i know its not...