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    Hardware or software issue - Disk failure

    I have a complete Sata disk failure that happens weeks if not months apart and requires a full server boot and Proxmox restart to recover. After the restart I'm good for sometimes 3 to 4 months but at other times once a week. Is this a hardware issue or a Proxmox issue. I run the boot and VM...
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    [SOLVED] Adding HBA passthrough to TrueNAS

    Problem solved. Just had to add iommu=pt to grub and update.
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    [SOLVED] Adding HBA passthrough to TrueNAS

    1. Added intel_iommu=on to /etc/default/grub 2. update-grub 3. Added vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd to /etc/modules 4. update-initramfs -u -k all When I restarted Proxmox there was an error after the ram disk message: Mar 20 22:40:19 xlogic kernel: DMAR: DRHD: handling fault...
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    I/O Errors when there is heavy disk activity

    The WEB gui was locked solid so I was unable to check the hard disks. I did think of the SMR problem but both of my hard disks are CMR - WD40EFRX and WD80EFAX. One possible issue is that my storage connection for the backup is to TrueNAS running as a VM. The storage type is CIFS ... Should I...
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    I/O Errors when there is heavy disk activity

    Every time the system attempts to do a Proxmox backup I get multiple disks errors. I have the same problem sometimes in the middle of the night when the PLEX PVE runs some of it's maintenance routines. The WEB interface does not respond and it requires a full server reboot. After that it will...
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    Passing partial disk to VM running Windows Server 2019

    I need to expand my Microsoft Exchange 2019 database running under Server 2019. I have installed 2 enterprise SSD's (480gb) and would like to partition 100gb from each SSD in a RAID 1 setup. Being new to Proxmox i thought of the following idea. The two SSD's are sde and sdf. 1. Partition each...
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    Backup only VM and not attached disks

    When I backup my Plex which runs under Ubuntu on Proxmox. The backup also tries to backup my PlexMedia which is a local attached SCSI disk to the VM. How do I remove this disk from the backup cycle. As it's 8TB of movies I don't want to back up each time.
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    NTFS Drive access to Plex running under ubuntu

    I have connected a NTFS drive to my proxmox server and can see the drive under the node shell with the fdisk -l command: Disk /dev/sdd: 7.3 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors Disk model: WDC WD80EFAX-68K Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes...