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    HELP: PCIe passthrough not working

    Hi, I'm trying to configure a PCIe passthrough for a tape drive (the iSCSI can't be applied for reasons). I have issues with IOMMU not being activated. I've followed the instructions at https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough to no avail. My issues arise at these sections: IOMMU...
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    Is there an easy way to pass-through an LTO tape to a VM?

    I need to pass-through an LTO tape drive to a VM. I can only find this about tapes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives, which shows a pretty convoluted way of doing it via iSCSI. However, that page states it's about Proxmox VE 4.0, so I was wondering if there's any easier way to...
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    ceph: 5 nodes with 16 drives vs 10 nodes with 8 drives

    Hi, I'm designing a ceph cluster for our VFX studio. We have about 32 artists seats and I need high sequential read and write speeds, not so much IOPS. I will use whatever it takes to put the best possible hardware inside each node, but I have to decide now if I go with many nodes with fewer...
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    Proxmox for Renderfarm

    Hi, I'm running a small VFX studio infrastructure. We have a little renderfarm (8 nodes) and I'm considering using Proxmox to manage it. These are the things I plan to use Proxmox for: Manage and monitor the physical servers from a single location Installing a single Linux (or Windows) image...
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    Ceph Erasure Coding support

    I've read posts about Proxmox not supporting Ceph EC. Last one was dated on May last year. I'd like to ask if, almost one year later, this is still the stance of Proxmox or we can expect EC support in some near future (2021). I'm considering setting up a separate Ceph cluster (storage only...