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    Can't lock container

    Hi. I'm trying to create a new container in my Proxmox 3.1-3 environment, but I'm continuously having the following error: Error: can't lock container 1002 The id of the new container is 1002, of course, but I tried with other numbers too (110 for example), and I got the same error. The...
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    VPN between Proxmox hosts and VMs: some advices

    Hi. I have some Proxmox VMs which are not connected in a LAN, and I wish them to communicate together through a VPN made with OpenVPN. I with to use the VPN to insert hosts in a cluster and let VMs to communicate each others not using the public network. So I'm thinking about the future OpenVPN...
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    DRDB and fencing on IBM servers

    Thank you very much for your answer. Could you explain me how that device could help me for fencing features, please?
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    DRDB and fencing on IBM servers

    Hi. I configured a two-nodes cluster using DRDB taking the cue from http://www.nedproductions.biz/wiki/configuring-a-proxmox-ve-2.x-cluster-running-over-an-openvpn-intranet/configuring-a-proxmox-ve-2.x-cluster-running-over-an-openvpn-intranet-part-3. That articles does not tell anything about...
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    Convert VMs from image to LVM

    I understand what you're telling. I'm interested in activate drbd, which can have a file system on it (a drbd resource can be formatted as a LVM physical volume or a "true" file system), so this shouldn't be a problem for the raw files... I was asking if a configuration like this could be bad...
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    Convert VMs from image to LVM

    Thank you very much for your answer! Now the question is: the drbd howto for Proxmox tells about LVM based storage for virtual machines, but could I use drbd with .raw images too? This should permits me to avoid the conversion of all virtual machines! Thank you very much!
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    Convert VMs from image to LVM

    Hi. I wish to begin using LVM for the storage of my virtual machine to install and configure drbd, but now I have virtual machines all with the storage as raw images in /var/lib/vz. Is there a way to convert the virtual machines from image to LVM? Thank you very much! Bye.
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    High availability without SAN

    Thank you very much! I have some questions: I have a three node cluster, but I cannot sync all VMs to all three nodes, only two, so I wish to have all VMs synced to a node of one of another two... Should the datastore have the same name on both nodes, right? How I can configure HA on Proxmox...
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    High availability without SAN

    Hi. Is it possible with Proxmox 2.1 to have High Availability for some virtual machines without using a SAN for the storage, but local storage of both nodes? Thank you very much! Bye.
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    Change hostname

    Hi. I need to change the hostname of a running Proxmox 2.1 environment with some virtual machine installed. I simply tried changing the hostname with the typical Linux way but I lost all virtual machine references in the web interface. I tried repairing the problem but after some minutes I...
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    Restore cluster configuration

    Yes: root@vetest1:~# date Tue Jun 12 14:29:34 CEST 2012 root@vetest2:~# date Tue Jun 12 14:29:34 CEST 2012
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    Restore cluster configuration

    Now I have a different behaviour: root@vetest1:~# pvecm nodes Node Sts Inc Joined Name 1 M 37896 2012-06-12 01:29:13 vetest1 2 M 37908 2012-06-12 01:29:16 vetest2 root@vetest2:~# pvecm nodes Node Sts Inc Joined Name 1 M 37908...
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    Restore cluster configuration

    I cannot do that, because the server are hosted in a webfarm from Hetzner, so they are connected with the Internet.
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    Restore cluster configuration

    Yes. Now another strange behavior. I see the second node at the master node: root@vetest1:~# pvecm nodes Node Sts Inc Joined Name 1 M 2160 2012-06-11 17:07:09 vetest1 2 X 0 vetest2 And I see it in the vetest1 web interface, but...
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    Restore cluster configuration

    I reinstalled and retried, this time using the IP address instead of the DNS name: root@vetest2:~# pvecm add 123.123.123.2 Generating public/private rsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key...
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    Restore cluster configuration

    This not... But now how I can retry?
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    Restore cluster configuration

    Hi. I'm doing some tests with a PVE 2.1 cluster to learn it. I create a new cluster configuration on the master server: root@vetest1:/var/lib/vz/template/iso# pvecm create testcluster Generating public/private rsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public...
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    What if the master node of a cluster fails?

    Thank you very much. Does this happen even if I use unicast instead of multicast?
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    What if the master node of a cluster fails?

    Hi. What are the operations to do when the master node in a cluster failed and it is not accessible? How is it possible to configured all other nodes without the master server? Thank you very much! Bye.
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    Physical vs virtual benchmarking

    Hi. I am planning a new installation of Proxmox VE 2 as replacement for the physical environment on the same server, this for the HA features of Proxmox 2. Even if I am an hard supporter of the virtualization environments, I would like to make some benchmarking to know how much the virtual...