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    Windows 2012 idle CPU usage

    Hello, We've recently installed a Windows 2012 R2 as a guest OS on our dual E5-2620 Proxmox 3.3-1/a06c9f73 based host. It's in the process of testing and tweaking and what we're trying to do now is reduce its idle CPU usage. We've already switched to virtio-blk and vitio-net drivers, added the...
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    What's the advantage of having a quorum disk in a two-node cluster?

    Hi, The title says it all. I'd like to know why is it recommended to have a quorum in this guide: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Two-Node_High_Availability_Cluster What benefits does it provide in such setup? I mean, AFAIK quorum, is used to share cluster's current state and configuration...
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    Suggestions/warnings to a Windows 2012/MS SQL virtualized setup

    Thanks for your feedback. We don't have enough resources to implement DRDB right now, but we will consider that in the future. Anything else we should be aware of, or do in a different way?
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    Suggestions/warnings to a Windows 2012/MS SQL virtualized setup

    Hi. I work at a medium-sized company which uses an ERP system utilizing MS SQL as it's database backend. The entire setup is (as of now) based around a single HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server running Windows 2008 R2, which has 2x Xeon E5504, 56GB of RAM and 8x600GB SAS 15k HDDs hooked up to a...
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    Forcing gzip intead of lzo for automated backups

    Hi. We're using Proxmox 3.1-20 and we'd like to force vzdump to use gzip as compression algorithm for it's automated backup tasks. Is there any way to do this? I know that I can start it manually with: vzdump -all --compress gzip, or edit /etc/vzdump.conf but there's no option to specify...
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    Proxmox VE 3.0 released!

    We've managed to fix this issue by uncommenting GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true in /etc/default/grub As advised in following bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612402
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    Proxmox VE 3.0 released!

    We ran into exactly the same issue on our Dell PE 2900 server with a PERC 5i RAID controller after performing an in-place upgrade to 3.0. Updating initramfs didn't help, nor did few other tricks we had up our sleeves, such as using "rootdelay" parameter, or this patch...