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    ver 4.3 Console size

    Hi Running 4.3-14/3a8c61c7 I restored a VM backup that was running under 3.x. Everything is OK Except when I choose Console in the new menu bar, it first displays as supposed to but it will not resize. VM is Windows Server 2008R2 64bit VE has 128GB ram and 2 x Xeon E5-2650 Help appreciated as...
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    Win Server 2008R2 64 bit running 100%CPU

    Three Cheers Problem fixed, Turned off Balloon and used fixed memory size. Server now runs at peak times 50 to 60% Tom
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    Win Server 2008R2 64 bit running 100%CPU

    Hi This is the physical server we have. 1 INTEL R2308GZ4GC 2U SERVER 2 INTEL XEON E5-2650 2.00GHZ/20MB 4 8GB DDR3-1600 REGISTERED W/ECC 1 LG GT80N SLIM DVD BURNER SATA 1 INTEL RMS25CB080 8-PORT SAS MODULE 1 INTEL AXXRSBBU9 SMART BATTERY B/UP 2 SEAGATE CONST ES3 2TB SATA3 3.5" Win...
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    Cluster on V4, Naming convention

    Hi In the help that I have read, all seem to name the machines, pve1, pve2 etc. Can other naming be used? EG. XYZ-vm1, XYZ-vm2 or XYZ-vm01, XYZ-vm02?
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    Backing Up to Directory and / or LVM

    Thanks Fireon Look like I have some reading to do. Also local backup does work in some situations, as long as the local disks you are backing up to are still OK. We had a machine die, We brought in a new machine. Installed Proxmox, added the backup drives from the old machine, restored latest...
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    Ver 4.3 differnt View for Navigation Tabs

    Thanks Wolfgang, Worked a treat.
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    Backing Up to Directory and / or LVM

    Hi I would like some advise please. I am looking after a few small networks, all are just single servers at multiple sites. At the moment I am using Proxmox to Virtualise the servers and adding extra Hard Drives into the Machine and setting the extra drives up as Directories and backing up the...
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    Ver 4.3 differnt View for Navigation Tabs

    Just looking at Version 4.3. I installed on one machine and run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and I have the verticle tabs showing Virtual Environment 4.3-3/557191d3 Same on other machine and have old style tabs showing Virtual Environment 4.3-1/e7cdc165 I have run the update again...
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    Moving VM from 3.4 to 4.2 and new cluster

    Hi I have been running a Win 2008R2 VM server on Proxmox 3.4 for a while now with no problems. I have setup another new box with Proxmox 4.2 and installed a Windows server 2012R2 VM this also is running well. I wanted to keep both servers and also run a couple of Linux servers, I am backing up...
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    Error when booting from iso file V4.2

    Hi I created a Win7 Ultimate VMof 60GB in a fresh install Proxmox V4.2. I copied across 2 Iso's Parted magic and Win7 Ultimate to /var/lib/vz/template/iso I have the VM set to boot from CD. When I click start, it comes up with the following error...
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    Error when restoring "failed: can't lock file"

    Hi When trying to restore a couple of backups I get the following. " trying to aquire lock...TASK ERROR: command 'lzop -d -c /media/cm-back01/dump/vzdump-qemu-201-2016_08_19-21_30_02.vma.lzo|vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp70381.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp70381' failed: can't lock file...
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    Looking for *.iso's on local

    Thanks for the prompt reply. here are outputs. ============================================= root@Creative-pm-ve01:~# pvesm status local dir 1 98952796 7690096 86213152 8.69% local-lvm lvmthin 1 851853312 14055579 837797732 2.15% root@Creative-pm-ve01:~#...
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    Looking for *.iso's on local

    Hi Proxmox 4.2 look good nice and clean. Doing my first install, copied the iso's to /var/lib/vz/template/iso. Create VM, Now point to local for ISO for install of Win2012R2, nothing shows up. I have had this happen previously when there is space in iso name. Double checked, no spaces. Has the...
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    Proxmox V4 cannot install Parted.

    Hi I have installed Proxmox V4, with no problems. I went to add a couple of 4TB hard drives to the system, I have used Parted in the past on version 3X to setup the large hard drives. using apt-get install parted, with no problems. Now I get ===================================================...
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    Upgrading to V4 from much earlier versions

    Hi I have upgraded a couple of users running KVM and no Ctns from V3.4-11 to V4 by replacing Hard Drive with V3.4-11, installing V4. Then restoring Backup. I have a new user that has some older PM running. Since I will be traveling to site I thought I would ask the question first. Would I be...
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    Best Practice Proxmox 3.4 adding a UPS to the server.

    Hi I have a Intel server, Dual Xeon, 32 GB Ram, 5 X 4TB Hard drives. Running Proxmox 3.4 with latest updates. Windows Server 2012R2. We have the following UPS EATON 9130 1500VA / 1350W On Line Tower UPS PW9130G1500T-XLAU EATON 9130 Tower Extended Battery Module / 1500VA PW9130N1500T-EBM What is...
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    Updating from Proxmox 2.2 to 3.4

    Hi I have a new customer now come to us for general support of their 3 server system. They have 2 physical servers running Proxmox 2.2. These are in a cluster config. They are backing up the VM's to directories and we have tested the restores, they work. Do we have to go step by step, 2.2 to 2.3...
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    Updating Virtio Drivers.

    Hi I update the Virtio drivers on the Windows VM's running. I also run Apt-get Update and Apt-get Dist-upgrade every month. Does this update the Virtio drivers on Debian or should I be doing that manually? Tom
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    Multiple disk restore

    I have a system running the following PVE Manager 3.4-1/3f2d890e Kernal Linux 2.6.32-37-pve Proxmox installed on "Local" 2TB Drive shows as 1.65TB Used 90.87GB, Avail 1.56TB Installed is Windows Server 2012R2 With C and D drive. Drive D is small partition to hold installation files. Added an...