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    proxmox compatibility with ATTO FC-81EN (HBA)?

    anyone have any experience with ATTO FC-81EN fiber adapter card for proxmox? i know this card is supported by VMWare and Hyper-V but do not know for proxmox. Anyone have any experience with getting this card working on proxmox? if not, i might have to just run this on VMWare which I honestly do...
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    proxmox snapshot vs xen/vmware snapshot

    i still cant figure out if i'm doing it wrong or if this is some kind of limitation of proxmox. on xen/vmware, i simply right click on vm -> take snapshot, and within seconds i have a backup i can revert back to or clone off of at any time. on proxmox, when i create snapshot, the bigger the vm...
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    very slow IO, almost hangs time to time

    Hi there, I am experiencing a occasional system hangs/freeze ups w/ my new server which is: SUPERMICRO 6017R-WRF E5-2670 2 x Intel530 480gb SSD 2 x WD 3TB SATA3 On-board Controller The HDDs are set to JBOD. I have the proxmox installed on one of the WD3TB SATA3 with my other hard drives...
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    cloning a KVM?

    Coming from Xen/VMWare, cloning, templating, and booting up a live VM in seconds are one of those features that makes virtualization wonderful but I do not see it supported on Proxmox(?). Or am I overlooking something or is there some reason proxmox don't support this? I know you can manually...
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    confused about proxmox backup options

    i guess these are mostly, Live Snapshot backup questions. 1) is there a snapshot backups for containers? i can only see it under KVM at the moment. 2) where are snapshot backups stored? i'd like to have them on remote storage if possible. 3) how dangerous/bad-idea is it to take snapshots...
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    2.2 my first snapshot test

    hi so i just upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 w/o a problem and i created a new KVM w/ qcow2, installed cpanel, and then went to proxmox to try out the new snapshot. now it's been over 5 mins and still says: Task: VM 100 - Snapshot w/ the progress bar looping over and over. and I see that the VM is not...
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    adding new hard drive

    hi when i add new hard drive, normally i partition them using fdisk/parted and then format it as ext4, then i just mount them via /etc/fstab. but if i wanted to take advantage of fast backups, i heard someone say it should be in LVM. whats the correct procedure to do this? format as LVM and then...
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    snapshot, is this normal?

    i've just took a snapshot backup and my VM stopped responding: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 101 --remove 0 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage hit2tb --node server1 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (qemu) INFO: status = running INFO: mode failure - unable to detect lvm volume group...
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    performance difference between bare-metal and virtualization (proxmox)

    hi guys anyone know of any insights to how much performance hit one should expect when going virtualization? i have a bare-metal server which is performing well for a site that gets over 10mil+ requests per day, hovering at avg load of 30-40, with almost zero io wait. but i want the flexibility...
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    moving proxmox server to another datacenter

    hi, i need to move a proxmox server that hosts about 30 VMs (openvz/kvm) to another datacenter. i was using around 10 ip addresses, so now my question is, once i move to new datacenter, are there any seamless way to update the ip's to new ones once i move to new datacenter? if i had to do each...
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    for SAN, which is best, iscsi or nfs?

    im trying to setup a SAN but i'm not sure which is best, iscsi, nfs, or others? i'm more concerned about performance more than anything, would like to hear your experiences. thx.
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    a site pushing close to 10-50mbps

    hi guys, i'm about to host a site that pushes over 10mbps and i'm trying to host it inside proxmox. i tested this briefly on a openvz container but it died with tcp_conntrack full dropping packets kernel messages. so now, i'm thinking of installing it on a kvm, so i can control the kernel...
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    after adding local ip to a VM, can't access it via public ip

    hi, i have a openvz CT i setup. first i assigned public venet ip i.e; 67.x.x.x which works fine. then from proxmox gui, i added a venet local ip, i.e; 1.1.1.51, and it works immediately. but once i reboot, i'm no longer able to access the server via 67.x.x.x. but once i remove the local ip from...
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    VM cloning from the web UI?

    Hi all, are there any plans to incorporate some VM cloning options, like Xen/VMWare/VB have it? Where you can just right click on a VM and then hit clone? I sorely miss that feature, I'm hoping proxmox will have that at some point, but just would like to know some time frame. Currently doing it...
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    lvm backups in proxmox?

    is there a way to perform LVM backups within the promox gui? i only see vzdump atm. vzdump takes too long, i prefer the Xen snapshots which only take about a max 2-3 seconds. i'm trying to find similar way to do this in proxmox. any advice?
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    help, i added a venet ip and the whole server went offline

    help, i just added a venet ip to one of my openvz server from the proxmox gui and the whole server just went offline. i believe i might have accidentally entered in our router's IP. i do have access to the server physically but need to know what i need to do once i'm there. i would really...
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    how to provide internal networking?

    hi guys i've got a second NIC that I'd like to use to provide internal networking to VM's. i been messing around w/ setting up eth1 and vmbr1 from web-gui but it's to no avail. and yes, i rebooted after i saved them. anyhow, anyone got a good tutorial for achieving this? surely i can't be the...
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    cloning

    is there anyway to perform cloning?
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    snapshots = full backups? not actual snapshots?

    hello, i'm just coming from xenserver / vmware and testing out proxmox. so far, proxmox has far exceeded my expectations but just have one glaring issue so far. when i take live snapshots from proxmox, it just does a vzdump of a VM which can take quite a bit of time, as well as eating up...