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Hi tburger, thanks a lot for your fast reply! Indeed we have home office users which connect via WAN (bad bandwidth, bad latency); in these cases it's totally ok for us that graphics is not perfect. But we also like to use it inside a typical GBit-LAN infrastructure (good bandwidth, good...

Hi there, yes, I know - not exactly a Proxmox VE question... But maybe someone already solved this problem or have at least ideas what we could try. Here we go: On one of our PVE nodes we run a Windows Server 2016 VM (KVM) as a remote desktop services server - and we're very happy so far...

Hey Alwin, thanks! Indeed we did it this way: 1. migrate all VMs away from node1 (I love "bulk migration" over a dedicated 10 GBit/s-NIC) 2. install updates 3. restart 4. wait until all PGs are "active+clean" 5. do the same with node2 and node3 Greets Stephan

Hi there, today we like to install updates on our three nodes of our PVE/Ceph cluster which need restarts. # apt list --upgradable Listing... Done ceph-base/stable 14.2.6-pve1 amd64 [upgradable from: 14.2.4-pve1] ceph-common/stable 14.2.6-pve1 amd64 [upgradable from: 14.2.4-pve1]...

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood this! Our numbers go like this: Since about two months we run a three node PVE/Ceph cluster (so I guess that our writes on the system disks are higher than yours because of Ceph). We monitor disk IO and see a constant write flow between 250 and 450 kB/s, let's say, 350...

Intel SSD D3-S4610 960 GB has 6,0 PBW - do you really worry about that this could be too little?

I forgot: I recommend you to give at least 2 vCPUs to your windows servers. You will be thankful when the VMs are installing updates, performing "disk cleanups", scanning for malware, etc.

Hi zecas, welcome to this forum! :) These are my thoughts to your exciting project: a) Your server hardware base looks good - oldie but goldie! :D Just three words: Don't do it! If you like to build a server for business purposes, use enterprise grade hardware. Especially when it comes to...

Seems like a little, but powerful piece of hardware with a good single thread performance - I don't know it, but I like it! :D We just built a three node PVE/Ceph cluster based on AMD EPYC 7351 CPUs - no trouble so far. :) Do you have any further questions?

Sounds like a very solid choice, congrats! If you're sure that about 900 GB of storage would be enough than go with it - why not? :) And even if you need more in three or four years: Backing up the VMs, replacing the SSDs with larger ones, setting up new ZFS based storage and finally restoring...

done :)

Hey Reuven, unfortunately we don't use lvm(-thin), so I have no clue what could be wrong in your case. Maybe aaron has an idea? Good luck and greets Stephan

Our "calculation" goes like this: Thanks to the proxmox team we get an enterprise grade virtualization platform and safe a lot of money compared to the "big players". And a part of this savings we spent in nice (and enterprise grade) hardware. :)

Yes, this looks good. Now you could bring your system up-to-date with apt dist-upgrade But as aaron mentioned: Before upgrading I would try to figure out what's wrong with /dev/sde and how this could affect your system.

It's a little bit unusual, but not necessarily wrong. Aaron, do you think it's safe to replace "stretch" with "buster" in the proxmox repo line and do an upgrade? Reuven, did you install this system initially? To me it seems that it was "buster" once and was replaced with "stretch" later...

And relating to the choice of HDDs/SSDs: When you go through this forum you will finally realize consensus: When you do virtualization for business purposes, buy enterprise grade hardware and have a good backup strategy - end of story. :)

If you're talking about IPMI: It comes with most of Super Micro's server mainboards, and most of the functionality is free. As far as I can see, features like BIOS firmware upgrade or centralized management for a lot of servers require a kind of paid subscription.

:-D YMMD! Yes, Microsofts "datacenter licensing" is painful - a little bit less when you go shopping here. But that's really offtopic now, sorry! :)

I would also advice against HPE. We had it for years, and in my opinion it was not better than "middle-class" server hardware, just more expensive. And as far as I remember: For getting HPE firmware updates you need to have a valid support contract. Since a few years we use Super Micro hardware...

Hey, "stretch" looks wrong, should be "buster", as in your other repos. But I'm wonderung how you can have while in the Proxmox stretch repo 5.4-8 is the latest. Are you sure there is no file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/? Greets Stephan