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    Recommendation - Quad Port Gigabit PCIe Ethernet card?

    Forum members, I am interested in selecting a quad port Ethernet card to be used with ProxMox and am wondering what people's experiences have been and what opinions are out there. One card I was looking at is the i350-T4v2 but I am curious what others think? For what it is worth the card would...
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    Can we create processors for the microarchitectures?

    That is the way they are booting up right now. Granted, the environment is a home lab I use for testing and that for my consulting work. Well, there are two reasons it interests me to use qemu64 or kvm64 as the processor type. The first being live migration. The second being that not all the...
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    Can we create processors for the microarchitectures?

    Proxmox Users, developers, et alia: As some of you might well be aware in the summer of 2020 AMD, Intel, RedHat, and SuSE all got together and created the microarchitectures of x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4, each constituting some greater number of available classes of instructions added...
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    P2V info

    Fair enough, experience speaks volumes! :) The problem I have is that it is not that I need to virtualize this Windows installation, it is that I have applications on there and I do not feel like reinstalling them all and Windows won't update because some DLLs or something are jacked up. I...
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    PBS Backup a MacBook?

    I guess really a "mac client" is not what is needed so much as an option to easily provision or provide for the automatic provisioning of an SMB share. If that were the case, then Time Machine could simply perform its regular backups and point itself at the PBS, no? That would seem a less...
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    P2V info

    I am curious, is there any reason that the virtio drivers could not be installed into Windows environment in precedence to performing a Clonezilla migration of the disk image? I know that VMware will insert and configure its own drivers whence it performs a conversion/migration of a VM but I do...
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    [SOLVED] solaris 11.4 installation crashes during boot

    SomeUser, Might I ask what SCSI controller and as well which network card type you used? Stuart
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    Shared storage recommendation?

    All, Well my original thinking was that I wanted to use ZFS directly (with RAIDZ) on the Drobos as the drives are a bit older and that would also have given me the ability to have snapshots too. However, the Drobos (its been a while since I played with them) do not really allow for direct...
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    Shared storage recommendation?

    bbgeek17, Ah, I see said the blind man as he picked up the hammer and saw! The Drobos themselves (at least the models I have, b800i) do not support ZFS. It will allow iSCSI connectivity to them however. Thus, I am impelled to think that if TrueNAS can connect to them as iSCSI targets and then...
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    Shared storage recommendation?

    bbgeek17, I'd be fine with looking at modifying the plugin, where do I get the source for it and instructions for compiling it (if required)? If I am understanding you correctly then, the Drobo needs only to speak iSCSI and not itself support ZFS as once ProxMox has iSCSI access to the Drobo...
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    Shared storage recommendation?

    ZFS over iSCSI (as is in ProxMox) requires the ability to ssh into the array, correct? I am not sure (will have to check) if the Drobo has this capability. If I can eliminate the need for the QCOW2 layer, all the better. Speed is not a huge deal to me as it is a test/lab environment for me as...
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    Shared storage recommendation?

    I have not thought about this in a while, although perhaps a different solution might work. If I were to use (for example) OpenMediaVault (or I suppose TrueNAS SCALE) to connect to the Drobos via iSCSI, ZFS them by making them into a vdev and pool and then enable the NFS sharing option on ZFS...
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    error with cfs lock '****': unable to create image: got lock timeout - aborting command

    Fiona, Thank you for the response. I will give that a try. My end state solution was simply to run: sudo qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=65536 -o extended_l2=off -o preallocation=metadata -o compression_type=zlib -o size=500G -o lazy_refcounts=off -o refcount_bits=16...
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    HP T620 Thin client with Realtek ethernet port

    ProxMox users, developers, et alia: I am running the latest ProxMox kernel (5.19) and ProxMox works rather nices on this system (granted it is a "light weight" server, if you can even call this system a server!). The network card in it is a Realtek (as depicted herein below from lspci). The...
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    error with cfs lock '****': unable to create image: got lock timeout - aborting command

    ProxMox users, developers, et alia: I am seeing this issue when I try to create a 500GB HD via NFS. Is there a way to see the actual qemu-img command that ProxMox is trying to issue to build the qcow2 file? Presuming I had the precise command being run and then wanted to run it, how would I...
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    PBS Backup a MacBook?

    +1 for the mac client :)
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    CEPH - trying to install it

    ProxMox users, developers, et alia: Worthy of notation was that I found it much easier and simpler to ZFS all my drives, install the nfs-kernel-server set sharenfs=on and add an NFS mount to the datacenter and call it a day! This got me the surety of ZFS RAIDZ coupled with the east of NFS for...
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    [SOLVED] Ceph setup GUI, not able to set IP/CIDR?

    ProxMox users, developers, et alia: I am seeing the same problem, when I read Alwin say "If that's the interface for Ceph, yes" it did not immediately seem obvious to me how one determines or otherwise sets forth which interface Ceph should use? My vmbr0 is plugged into a trunk port on my...
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    CEPH - trying to install it

    ProxMox user, developers, et alia: I have a 4 node cluster and I attempted to install CEPH on one of my cluster members and succeeding what appeared to me a successful installation of the packages I got a "got timeout" with a spinning circle just in precedence to where I should be clicking...
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    Create a 100% sized disk for a VM

    Ah, wonderful! It was grayed out so I never even clicked on it...but I was able to type in 16K. Does that matter that I am doing it after having created the pool or I should delete the pool and recreate it telling it 16K?