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    zram - why bother?

    Unfortunately that's not how the real world always works. Linux is actually made to use swap when actually needed. Adding more ram won't be the correct way to solve problems in all cases. Nor is it always an option. One of the situations I've experienced this in was on a database server with max...
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    zram - why bother?

    There are actually a lot of situations where having enough swap space available is cruicial. Yes, having everything in ram usually sems best, but that's not always the case. If you have a workload that allocates and deallocates a lot of memory continiously you might find that having swap...
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    How to migrate 500 VMs from VMWare to Proxmox, with as little downtime as possible

    I've seen a lot people doing the migration using scp, ovftool etc. However, there are a much faster way to do this. In my opinion it's also easier than most other methods. Also the downtime can be made to be as short as a single reboot. Only thing you need is a nfs storage that you can share...
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    Offline installation of proxmox

    The company i work for currently have hosts scattered in tens (probably in the hundreds by end of this year) of networks where we don't control how the firewalls are configured, so yes some of them probably just drops the packages. My problem isn't that this happens, but my worry is that Proxmox...
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    Offline installation of proxmox

    I'm working in a environment where we don't have internett access, and I noticed that process of setting up pve-manager takes a long time, so I went digging in the logs. It seems that the proces tries to download from download.proxmox.com and releases.turnkeylinux.org I suspect that this is a...
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    Catch 22 backing up a firewall....

    It's a home lab setup, and I have other methods to backup the firewall. That being said, I think that the problem here is a task order problem that should be fixed just to avoid other similar problems.
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    Catch 22 backing up a firewall....

    A fun small catch 22 situation I managed to create. I've set up a PBS outside my network, and tried to backup my firewall which is running in a vm on PVE. That ended up with a 1 minute timeout trying to connect to the PBS....
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    [SOLVED] Datastore creation on NFS share times out, store gets created, backups fail

    Ran into the same problem. The problem running backups seems to be related to the lack of locking on nfs.
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    Performance of LXC vs KVM

    I don't think it's disk related, but for what it's worth, we used lvm for all and no cache set for kvm. For our part, we are not going to do anything more whit this, and will end up running one kvm instance on each physical server.
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    Performance of LXC vs KVM

    We haven't found the root cause, and it seems to only have an effect when you use Elasticsearch inside a kvm and use percolation. Other usecases of Elasticseach don't show the same behaviour. My suspicion is that we are seeing a bug in Elasticsearch or java that only manifests it self on...
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    Performance of LXC vs KVM

    Just to some extent close this issue. LXC isn't the problem here. What we actually see here is that elasticsearch (might even be java) runs about 60% faster in a kvm than on native hardware in our case. Running on bare metal or in lxc has the same performance, while running in a kvm boosts the...
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    Performance of LXC vs KVM

    The cpu usage is almost 100% in both cases. The elasticsearch instances are running percolator, so its a bit different from normal elasticsearch usage. We have run the testes on the same set of physical servers, and they are not running anything else during the tests.
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    Performance of LXC vs KVM

    I my mind LXC should always be much more efficient than kvm. However I've got a customer who try to run a large elasticsearch clust, and the the tests they have run show almost double performance running on kvm vs lxc. Going forward the elasticsearch cluster will be moved to bare metal, but I...
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    Feature request: Compression of disk during migration

    It would be nice to be able to compress data during migration of lxc containers. In my case I have some new containers with almost no data in them, but each of them have 1TB of disk allocated.... A lz4 inside that pipe would help allot on the speed....
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    LVM and separate /usr

    I'm not going to teach you why it's not a good idea in general to put all in one root filesystem, that you can read up on your self. I find it quite strange that you have such a grumpy attitude to bug reports. Oh' well you'll learn eventually.
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    LVM and separate /usr

    Why use a separate / /usr and /var? Well, because its a good practice to separate these.
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    LVM and separate /usr

    I've installed PVE 4beta2 on a stock Debian Jessie with a separate /, /usr and /var on lvm. The problem is that the initrd image generated for the pve kernel do not properly start lvm. As a hack to get around this I've added /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/lvm with the content...
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    Proxmox VE 4.0 beta2 released!

    ZFS use quite allot of resources, and for a production critical environment I don't want to use zfs on Linux for a loooong while... I've lost enough filesystems due to bugs.... Don't get me wrong, zfs has allot of nice features. I'm not going to create a discussion out of this, just want a...
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    Proxmox VE 4.0 beta2 released!

    That one you really have to explain. In what way is LVM limited?. As far as I can understand it's no more limited than any image based solution? ZFS is _not_ an option for allot of people. I know that you strive for perfect solutions, but the reality is that different needs requires different...
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    [SOLVED] Add listening on IPV6 on Proxmoxhost - is this posible?

    Ok, then spiceproxy is listening on port 3128 for you as well. Have you restarted xinetd after adding the spice port?

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