Recent content by Thomas P.

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    Tutorial - Helping post for upgrade from Promox 5 to Proxmox 6 on OVH.

    Hello, Just to add some information for those migrating on OVH from Proxmox 6 to 7. I just switched to Proxmox 7 on OVH, and want to add two tricks here on this tutorial. 1- I kept adding the : ZFS_INITRD_PRE_MOUNTROOT_SLEEP='4' When dist-upgrading to v7, grub config is asked to overwrite, you...
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    Updating from PVE 5 to 6: do we must do a "pve-efiboot-tool init" ?

    I understand better, thanks again for taking time to explain this. So I will not update efi as it is not needed in my case. Best regards.
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    Updating from PVE 5 to 6: do we must do a "pve-efiboot-tool init" ?

    Thanks again. But I have always a little prbolem to understand sorry... What i mean is, doing the "pve-efiboot-tool init /dev/xxx" migration involve that UEFI boot MUST be used/configured in the bios ? Or are the two way fonctioning in parralel so we can choose as we want and staying on legacy...
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    Updating from PVE 5 to 6: do we must do a "pve-efiboot-tool init" ?

    Thanks. Yes the system was installed with ZFS (Proxmox 5) RAID 1 (mirror). If i switch to the new UEFI bootloader syncing mechanism, does i need to change bios settings in UEFI mode or their is no risk and server will restart without any change/problem ? (i think it is configured in legacy mode...
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    Tutorial - Helping post for upgrade from Promox 5 to Proxmox 6 on OVH.

    Hello, As i got some difficulty to make the upgrade from Proxmox 5 to 6 on a dedicated OVH server (using the standard OVH Proxmox v5 template), i post here how i was able to make it work for people having same problems. All the upgrade went fine. I rebooted the server, but no more GUI, SSH...
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    Updating from PVE 5 to 6: do we must do a "pve-efiboot-tool init" ?

    Hello, I freshly updated from Proxmox 5 to 6 (with some difficulty, on OVH dedicated server, I posted another ticket just for help for others if needed: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/helping-post-for-upgrade-from-promox-5-to-proxmox-6-on-ovh.60476/ - I don't think it is related). If i do a...
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    A bug report has been filled here: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 Feel free to add any details to help to resolve this one, Thanks.
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    Stoiko, Yes the stopping/starting delay could be the cause, especially for our big VM with many docker container. Maybe the system need to wait all containers are started... (there are many, around 50-75 containers). Ok, I will open a bug in Bugzilla, could you just indicate me how to get the...
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    Hello Stoiko, This happens randomly, depending the VM. For instance our VM100 is a big one of 40GiB memory, 16 CPU, 200Go of hard disk (this VM contains a docker host and its docker containers). This VM has guest agent intalled (and i can see the IP on the Summary tab of the VM in the Proxmox...
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    I confirm that using snapshot, it works ok too. But using stop mode i get random fail.
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    Sorry to making a up, but is there any news on it ? Do you need some more informations ? Thanks, best regards.
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    Here is the result of "pveversion -v" on the proxmox host: proxmox-ve: 5.2-2 (running kernel: 4.15.18-1-pve) pve-manager: 5.2-5 (running version: 5.2-5/eb24855a) pve-kernel-4.15: 5.2-4 pve-kernel-4.15.18-1-pve: 4.15.18-15 pve-kernel-4.13.13-5-pve: 4.13.13-38 corosync: 2.4.2-pve5 criu...
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    Scheduled VM backup fails randomly, even with patch (post 5.2 version)

    Hello, I would like to report there is always the problem of random failed scheduled backup, in "stop" mode, on VMs on Proxmox 5.2-5. I read on other thread there was a problem and said it has been fixed since (please see...

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