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    Best way to backup ms sql server windows 2003

    I have 4 GB Ram. It is a windows 2003 Standard edition. The max allowable ram is 4GB. Is is possible to do vzdump backup with "Stop" option? If yes, will it take entire sql server database backup well? Will it affect the running state of my VM?
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    Best way to backup ms sql server windows 2003

    I have just migrated a windows 2003 ms SQL server 5.0 from a Dell physical server to proxmox on local storage using qcow2 disks. The performance is excellent. However, there is question I need answer to. What is the best way to run vzdump. In snapshot mode, or suspend mode, so that the data...
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    Confused !!!!!! (KVM) disk raw or qcow2, NFS or ISCSI - please help me decide

    Hi all, I need some help in deciding what to do. I have setup a 2 node cluster (Dell 710, 64 GB Ram) with proxmox 2.1 with HA (Fencing configured) I was so excited to move all my VM form VMware to Proxmox. I migrated 5 VM (Windows 2003 servers) already. The Disk is qcow2 and storage is NFS...
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    Proxmox ve 2.1 GUI Option request

    Hi, Unlike Proxmox 1.9 and earlier version, there is no option for "add the existing disk image to this new VM" option in the Proxmox 2.1 Can this be added in the GUI? Is it difficult? How else can I add it without going into the KVM config file? Regards Kumar
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    libvirt

    I know proxmox does not support libvirt. However, can libvirt be installed on a proxmox node? The reason being, I want to try archipel with proxmox on the same hardware. Archipel will only work with libvirt. What will happen if libvirt deamon is installed on proxmox?
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    proxmox 2.1 vzdump.conf maxfiles: 5 does not work

    Hi, I have 2 Dell R7 servers in a cluster with HA. I have one windows 2008R2 servers each on both the Proxmox serves. In both servers /etc/vzdump.comf files I have enables maxfiles: 5 This is the vzdump.conf file # vzdump default settings #tmpdir: DIR #dumpdir: DIR #storage: STORAGE_ID #mode...
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    Even after removing openfiler ISCSI storage, I keep getting error in syslogs

    I am using 2 DELL R710 servers and proxmox 2.1 cluster I connected iscsi storage from openfiler. Then I deleted the storage. Even then I kept on getting error in syslog, that it is trying to connect to the openfiler iscsi target. Then I did the following steps. I've removed references from...
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    Unable to create openvz container on NFS

    It was the issue with my iomega storecenter ix4-200d Nas device. I fixed the issue. Regards
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    Unable to create openvz container on NFS

    Unable to create openvz container on NFS share. I can create it locally, but not on an NFS share. Has anyone faces this issue?
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    Fencing help

    Deejross, you are absolutely right Tom, Some questions that I have before I even begin is: 1 APC device, is this a UPS? I am assuming it does have ethernet port. 2 DO we need one APC device per Node OR one APC device can handle multiple nodes? 3 On my proxmox nodes, do I have to assign an...
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    Fencing help

    Hi, I don't understand fencing from the proxmox wiki. I need help. I have 2 simple desktops (Atom CPU)which I will include in a cluster. I don't need KVM (Because the processor does not support VT). All I need is HA on openvz containers. So what is the easiest and cheapest method of fencing for...
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    vzdump not working/starting

    I tried vzdump without --quiet --compress --snapshot parameters and it worked. Earlier it used to work with all these parameters. What might have happened? Please help.
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    vzdump not working/starting

    I have proxmox 1.4 installed on a 32 bit debian. Everything was working fine until recently I noticed the cron job was not working. I chaged the cron job to start right away so that I could see the logs. The logs showed the cron job starting, but nothing was happening. Then I tried it manually...
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    USB passthrough to openvz container

    It is a very simple solution to mount it on the Container. Step 1. on the proxmox server check where is /dev/sdc1 is mounted. For example is it mounted on /test1 Get in to the directory cd /test1 Create another directory, say test2 So now the directory structure is /test1/test2 on Proxmox...
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    Ubuntu Desktop

    Hi Tom, There is a new project and the template is available. It is called Ubuntu-Business-Desktop (OpenVZ) This is a OpenVZ-Template witch can be used for a company. It's an adapted Ubuntu 10.4 with Neatx-Terminalserver and Webmincluster. It's easy to control the system with webmin. You...
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    VG name issue using openfiler with proxmox LVM

    Hi, I have noticed a small issue with VG name in Openfiler when using with Proxmox. Proxmox detects the iscsi target without a problem, but does not give you ability to use that iscsi storage to create multiple VMs. So I added the LVM storage on proxmox and selected the same iscsi storage that I...