Recent content by NdK73

Handle automated reinstallation of the OS, initiated by the guest itself. But not every boot have to be a reinstall. Changing the boot order is usually the easiest thing to do.

Uh? Guest ACKs fs freeze/thaw and reports its IP addresses (and other infos) to the host via agent, IIUC. So it's already bi-directional. Well, even if completely isolated (like when there's no agent), is there no way to tell it to interact with its own BIOS settings? That's a whole can of...

Urgh. Having to expose PVE to "public" access is "not very good". Actually just a bit less bad than exposing IPMI. But if it's not (yet?) managed by agent interface there's not much I can do :( Tks.

Hello all. Is it possible to let a VM tell Proxmox "from now on, boot from network instead of from scsi0"? For servers with IPMI it can be done via ipmitool, but for VMs? Tks, Diego

Tks. The all-SSD pool is "impossible" (not enough space: server only hosts 24 disks). What about ditching completely ZFS and using MDRAID (the CPU does have 64 cores, so extra load should not be an issue) or HW RAID (changing the controller)? Is verify a sequential read? The big backup is...

@Dunuin Tks, but SSDs are way more expensive and offer at most 1/4 of the space (4TB vs 16TB). A striped mirror of HDDs gives half the space. @Richard Nearly the same issue as above: I need space (just one of the backups is 32TB! and requires more than 2 days to be verified). I can lose 4 disks...

Hello all. I'm going to configure a new PBS server. It currrently hosts 8 x 16TB disks, but "soon" (during the year, not next week) we'll need to add another 16 x 16TB (for a total of 24 x 16TB). I thought to use RAIDZ3, starting with the current 8 disks and expanding later with the new ones...

I might have found the issue: the FIREWALL! Seems Proxmox is not adding rules to allow CEPH connections between cluster nodes (neither pings, it seems... that's what rang a bell: "why can't I ping virtX from virtY even if I can use ssh?"). Just disabling the firewall "automagically" lets CEPH...

Trying to avoid a reinstall, I issued "pveceph purge" on virt5 and then on virt4. On both nodes /etc/ceph/ still exists and contains dangling symlinks: root@virt5:~# ls -l /etc/ceph/ total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 19 11:14 ceph.conf -> /etc/pve/ceph.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Mar 8...

I got errors while installing the second monitor (virt5) since the first try. The only one that starts is the one on virt4. The first time I had the network configured as a bridge over balance-alb bond including two eno. After reinstall I kept the default config of brige over a single eno to...

Well, re "cveceph purge" deleting data only from that machine I found many old threads that said otherwise (someone lost all VM data), but since I haven't created OSDs yet, that's not a problem. Currently I didn't start cleanup and I have: root@virt4:~# ceph auth ls| sed 's/key: .*/key...

Well, I did many tries reinstalling, and to avoid troubles I tried to delete everything ceph-related between tests. That includes running "pveceph purge" on virt4 (after turning off virt5 and virt6) and manually cleaning /etc/ceph/* and /etc/pve/priv/ceph* from virt1 after turning off virt4. But...

Hello. It's about a week I'm banging my head on this. I had a 9-nodes cluster (virtN, N=1..9, 192.168.1.3N/24). I now have to replace all the nodes with "new" hardware, so I started from the nodes 4..6. As described in the docs: - shutdown virtX and start install on new HW, so no risk old virtX...

Nope. It's quite an old storage system (nearly 20yo!) and the two controllers work in active/passive mode. The alternative would be to sacrifice the multipath... Tks anyway. Hope I'll be able to replace the power-hungry CX3 with a more energy-efficient system soon.

See also https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/kernel-5-13-19-4-pve-breaks-e1000e-networking.108141/ : I'm having troubles with newer kernels trying to scan "passive" devices :(