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    Boot Drive Crash

    LnxBil thanks again, much appreciated I have recreated the storage big-storage Ok i have manually created the 100.conf file without any hard drives #WINDOWS 2008 R2 SERVER #Hostname%3A SERVER02 #IP%3A 192.0.0.105 #2 x 500 GB IDE Drives #10GB Ram #Syspro 7 bootdisk: ide0 cores: 4 memory: 12288...
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    Boot Drive Crash

    LnxBil You mentioned " add a VM without any disks, reattach the disks " How do i reattach the disks ?
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    Boot Drive Crash

    LnxBil thanks for your help I have tried to make backups but Proxmox keeps telling not enough space and now this happens I have two VM.s but i critcally need the VM ID 100 cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg dir: local path /var/lib/vz content vztmpl,iso,backup lvmthin: local-lvm...
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    Boot Drive Crash

    Sunfish_CA, lifespirit and LnxBill thank you. vgscan Found volume group "Big-Storage" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "pve" using metadata type lvm2 vgchange -ay 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "Big-Storage" now active 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "pve" now active...
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    Boot Drive Crash

    Sunfish_CA thank you for trying to help, much appreciated On my Storage option i can see the Content = vm-100-disk-2 ( Format = raw Size = 500gb ) The " Big-Storage " volume is on sdb1 MY RAID VOLUME That is where the Volume is that i want to back up Why is it so hard to mount a separate...
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    Boot Drive Crash

    I have a Proxmox 4.4 that boots from a 1TB Seagate Drive The System has a 4 Drives in RAID 10 Megaraid Controller All the VM Machines are on the RAID 10 Volume The 1TB Seagate Boot Drive has crashed I have reinstalled Proxmox 4.4 on a SSD 250GB Drive and need to get the VM Machines working...
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    morph027, happy new year can i create a Proxmox Virtual Machine but instead of creating a Hard Drive Storage in " local-lvm ", create a Hard Drive with " VMware image format " Then just copy the VMware Esxi 5.1 VMDK Flat Files to the Newly Created " VMware image format Hard Drive " Will that...
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    morph027 buddy, IT WORKS! " we then are going to boost your performance by installing virtio drivers " what do i do? also if i want to create a vm to have an image and start in " /var/lib/vz/images/105 " how do i do so? must a create the folder 105 in " /var/lib/vz/images/ " then what do i do...
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    morph027 thank you for your reply doh, ok i will do so and get back to you with my findings thanks again, much appreciated
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    morph027 thank you for your reply and trying man, i have tried everything however i need to give your more information i have noticed that there are two .vmdk files on my vmware 5.1 server win2008.vmdk win2008-flat.vmdk the windows 2008 server vmware flat file is 700gb i have done the...
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    morpho27 thank you for helping i started the Windows 2008 vm100 and i keep getting: SeaBios Machine UUID: Booting from Hard Disk .... Boot failed: not a bootable disk any ideas?
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    morph027 thanks for you help using PROXMOX 4.3 when i do: ls -la /dev/mapper/ i get: pve-vm--100--disk--1 -> ../dm-6 why the: " -> ../dm-6 " at the end ? do i still do ?: dd if=win2008-pve.vmdk of=/dev/mapper/pve-vm--100--disk--1 bs=1M after the copy do i " START " my vm or must i first...
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    Rhiniox thank you for your support much appreciated i have looked at the link and have done the following i am using Proxmox 4.3 Prepare the disk file My disk file used for this howto: win2008.vmdk Change your VMDK disk file with vmware-vdiskmanager.exe to a single growable file...
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    Vmware 5.1 and Proxmox 4.3 Headaches

    Please can you help the noob. First time Proxmox User Current Hardware Supermicro Server with Raid Controller and 5 x Sata Drives ( 1TB and 500GB Sata Drives ) Current Vmware 5.1 Servers 2 x Windows 2008 Standard Server Virtual Machines New Setup Using the same Supermicro Server and Raid...
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    Vmware Migration to Proxmox 4.2

    tom thank you for your reply i have 1 x 4tb drive on my Proxmox 4.2 Server so i need to do the following? go to " Datacentre " > " Storage " > " Add Directory " or must i do " Datacentre " > " Storage " > " LVM " ? or must i do " Datacentre " > " Storage " > " LVM -Thin" ? or must i do "...
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    Raid Setup

    thank you for your support guys much appreciated so will that be 4 x 2TB Seagate NAS Drives with 1 x 60gb ssd ? OR 5 x 2TB Seagate NAS Drives with 1 60gb ssd ? any help greatly appreciated
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    Vmware Migration to Proxmox 4.2

    tom thank you for your help much appreciated just to confirm so i need to do the following? go to " Datacentre " > " Storage " > " Add Directory " or must i do " Datacentre " > " Storage " > " LVM " ? or must i do " Datacentre " > " Storage " > " LVM -Thin" ? or must i do "...
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    Vmware Migration to Proxmox 4.2

    guys please help the new noob i want to use Proxmox 4.2 and have been playing with it however i need help on migrating a 1TB Vmware " ms2008.vmdk " File to a New Proxmox 4.2 Server. I have done the following as per youtube i have also done the following to try and get it to work however...
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    Raid Setup

    guys please help the new noob i need your advise on what the best raid would be for the following setups 4 x 2TB Seagate NAS Drives ? OR 5 x 2TB Seagate Drives ? What Raid choice should i use for a New Proxmox 4.2 Installation? Any help greatly appreciated :)

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