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    Benchmark: ZFS vs mdraid + ext4 + qcow2

    Try to set the vm.min_free_kbytes , so there is always memory free for proxmox. I set that in every proxmox server and as I said, I don't have problems with crash or reboots. In your examples I think your ZFS ARC max is too much, Linux has his own cache too and even if that is released when...
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    Benchmark: ZFS vs mdraid + ext4 + qcow2

    I use Proxmox on consumer hardware (spinning disks, desktop motherboards, non-ECC RAM) always with ZFS and for a very limited number of VMs it has an OK speed. The best improvement I just started to do is move from spinning disks to SSD. Usually I use two consumer grade SSD (Samsung EVO serie)...
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    cannot import rpool

    I think the message is self explanatory. There were some device of the pool that could not be found. Usually, if the disks are healthy, you could try with rootdelay=10 in grub config
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    Any way to see total space used by backup?

    Just use Veeam Agent installed in clients
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    Proxmox VE 5.3 released!

    You are missing the no-subscrition repository, read here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories#_proxmox_ve_no_subscription_repository
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    Proxmox VE 5.3 released!

    If you don't have a subscription, you should add the no-subscription repository
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    How to shrink VM disk

    From the web interface, in the Hardware tab of the VM, you have the option to DETACH a virtual disk. After you click on detach, the disk is kept as unused, just double click the unused disk and add it as virtio-scsi with discard enabled
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    How to shrink VM disk

    First you should install virtio-scsi drivers, adding a new virtio-scsi virtual disk and installing the driver. After that you can remove all the virtual disks and re-add them as virtio-scsi with the discard option enabled. From Windows 7 / Windows server 2008R1 up to Windows 10/Windows Server...
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    How to shrink VM disk

    Windows or Linux VM ?
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    How to shrink VM disk

    You should use virtio-scsi driver with discard option and inside the VM use the TRIM function (fstrim from linux, during the maintenance time in windows)
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    [SOLVED] pveceph install tries to do bad things

    Are you sure you have the correct package repositories? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories
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    No Virtio signed drivers blocks windows 2016 install

    I usually use this steps: - install Windows Server with SATA or IDE disk - after the installation is complete, create a second virtual disk with scsi - start the Windows VM - install virtio drivers for all the unknown devices - from disk management, initialize and format the new disk - power off...
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    Regular errors on ceph pg's!

    Have you tried, as @Alwin said and like this http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22464#note-48 , to lower the bluestore cache size ?
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    Regular errors on ceph pg's!

    Check this bug in ceph tracker http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22464 could be your (and mine) issue?
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    Getting server images into Proxmox

    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#Physical_.28running.29_Windows_server_to_Proxmox_VE_.28KVM.29_using_VMware_Converter Those steps are a bit outdated, when you have the vmdk file, you can import in a new VM in proxmox with qm importdisk After that, you should...
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    [SOLVED] Windows 10 guest agent / balloon issues

    Install the latest windows qemu agent From Windows Powershell, what's the output of Get-Service balloonservice
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    Differential backups

    Having mixed servers with Proxmox and VMWare, I can say that VMWare + Veeam Backup&Replication is the best backup solution that I can think of. Incremental backups of VMs from which I can recover the full VM, only some virtual disks or even only some files from the guest OS. I can replicate...
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    [SOLVED] Web interface broke after update

    Neve use apt upgrade with proxmox, always apt dist-upgrade
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    [SOLVED] ceph rbd error: rbd: list: (95) Operation not supported (500)

    I had the same problem https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/after-update-5-1-43-pvedaemon-and-pvestatd-reports-rados_connect-failed-operation-not-supported.43409/ Solved just as you said Thank you very much
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    [SOLVED] After update 5.1-43, pvedaemon and pvestatd reports rados_connect failed - Operation not supported

    Thank you very much for the link, I had the same exact problem of the linked thread and in the 4th post I found the solution Cephx is disabled so I removed the files in /etc/pve/priv/ceph , restarted pvestatd and pvedaemon and everything is back healthy Problems solved!