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Guess you're right, the server is a new install, so there may be no relevant updates at the moment, but it's a matter of time and so I'll have to enable no-subscription repository, even if it is a production environment. Well, that way I'll be sure that both test and production environment will...

Thank you for your reply. Well, pve-1 is my production environment, the server were I'll be putting the VM machines to good use and I want to have the best stability possible. I don't have a subscription and assuming the no-subscription may bring some issues, I guess I'm being too cautious...

Hi, I need your opinion to understanding the compatibility between two proxmox machine versions, or how can I check for any possible compatibility issues. I have the following machines: pve-0: A proxmox originally installed with 6.0-4 ISO, then upgraded a few days ago to version 7.3-6...

Oh, ok ... that changes the game around. I'll take a better look at that, but suddenly the PCI passthrough starts looking as a better approach... Thanks.

Thank you for your quick reply. With disk passthrough I was thinking that I could just remove the disks and connect to another PC in case of such need, and would be able to re-mount the storage as they are all part of the same ZFS pool. But you're right, having them set as virtual disks, I...

Hi, I'm thinking about setting a truenas VM on a proxmox server and scenarios which I can choose for that job. On proxmox installation I have a ZFS raid10 pool for VM storage. I would create a VM for the truenas, but what would be the best option for the truenas storage? Scenario #1: One...

A few more tests ahead, I tried to change the bond mode from balance-rr to balance-alb, and ended up with the following config on /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface enp65s0 inet manual auto eno1 iface eno1 inet manual auto eno2 iface eno2 inet manual auto eno3...

Hi, I'm testing some network settings on a proxmox server (pve 7.3-3) and I'm having trouble setting up a network bond to work. On this server, I have a network card with 4 ports: eno1, eno2, eno3 and eno4 I added another network card that would be used for the management console only...

Wow! That was driving me crazy. After all the checks, the terminal showing the same visual representation of those distinct chars, only with a more close look I would find the problem after posting the message here. That was clearly a copy-paste from the documentation I was checking online. :)...

Hi, I'm trying to make a full backup of a VM to an usb drive, but somehow I'm getting an unexpected error about the parameters being used. So I've started by mounting the usb drive, setting an ext4 fs, mount it to /mnt/usb and creating the folder /mnt/usb/vm.backups where I'll be storing the...

Ah, I just saw what you are saying about ashift setting per vdev, also the openzfs#566 commit allowed the setting to be included in add/attach/replace commands: zpool add -o ashift=12 tank disk1 zpool attach -o ashift=12 tank disk1 disk2 zpool replace -o ashift=12 tank disk1 disk2 Which...

Reality check: Whenever I feel I'm getting more into it, something new just pops up reminding me that I still have a long road ahead... :) But hey, that's the fun part of it, and that's what makes me keep coming back... From what I've read in a few minutes about ZFS special devices, it really...

So you only have a single zpool and use the SSDs as cache? But you still had to choose what ashift to use right? You made any testing with ashift=9 vs ashift=12, or in your case you may be switching latter on for 4k disks and opted for ashift=12 right from the start? Thanks.

Thank you for that detailed answer. Still struggling to understand as much as I can... As for the disk info, I've run an fdisk -l command and retrieved this results on the HP 146Gb and HGST 600gb disks: Disk /dev/sdd: 136.73 GiB, 146815737856 bytes, 286749488 sectors Disk model: EH0146FARWD...

Thank you for your tip, I'll check them out to see what they are reporting. I'm aware that ashift can't be changed latter on, and if I replace one disk with a 4k sector size it will have a negative impact with some excessive writes, that's one of the reasons I read some places that nowadays it...