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    [SOLVED] Intel NIC (I225-V Rev 3) link down after switch reset

    My system has PVE 9.0.10 with 2 NICs. One Realtek RTL8111 and the other Intel I225-V. The Realtek is on a dedicated VLAN used for management only and the I255 for everything else. Both NICs work as expected after reboots. My problem is when the managed switched they are connected to is...
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    PVE GUI Access from pfSense VM

    Hi, I am running PVE 8.3 on a mini PC that has 5 2.5GB NICs. The mini PC will only host pfsense CE (2.7.2) and a couple local services. I use PCI pass-through to a pfsense VM for 4 of the 5 NICs. Those NICs are my WAN, LAN, Wifi and IOT networks. The last NIC is in vmbr0 as I wanted access to...
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    VM HardDrive NOT Restored from PBS

    I’m using PVE 8.2.3 and PBD 3.2-7. I backup my VMs, do garbage collection and verify the backups weekly. I recently deleted a VM from PVE (including destruction of unreferenced disks). When I tried to restore the VM , it would not boot and I discovered that the VM disk was missing. Attached is a...
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    [SOLVED] Tagged and Untagged VLAN Configuration

    I am running PVE 8.1.4. PVE is connected to the rest of my homelab via a trunk carrying tagged and untagged traffic. Not ideal, but that’s what I have now. For the tagged traffic, I know how to make my bridge vlan aware and to configure the vlan tags in each VM. What do I need to get the...
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    [SOLVED] Expiring SSL Certificate Renewal

    I'm running PVE 8.1.4 and PBS 3.1-4. Both have TLS/SSL certificates that are about to expire. The certificates are self-signed and are maintained/managed on by pfsense security appliance (v 23.09.1). Any help on what I need to do renew these expiring certificates would be greatly appreciated.
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    [SOLVED] Using PBS to Migrate VMs between PVEs

    Hi, I have 2 PVE (v 8.1) and 1 PBS (3.1) systems in my homelab. I have backups from both PVE systems on the PBS to the same datastore but different namespaces. All backups are owned by root@pam. I want to migrate VMs between the PVE systems using the PBS. The problem is that PVE1 can only list...
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    [SOLVED] Deleting Failed Hard Drive from PVE 8.1.3

    I’m running PVE 8.1.3. I recently had a SSD fail and I want to removed it from the system. The SSD is NOT the boot drive and is simply formatted as ext4 directory storage. Here is the entry in storage.cfg: dir: my-storage disable path /mnt/pve/my-storage content...
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    [SOLVED] Add NIC to Proxmox PVE 8

    I've been running PVE 8 with only one NIC for quite a awhile. I'd like to add a 2.5GB NIC and repurpose the current 1GB NIC later. To do this, do I just replace the old NIC with the new NIC in the bridge (vmbr0) or is there more I have do? The 1GB NIC will remain in the PVE. Thanks for your help
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    Upgrade to PVE 8.0 console-set-up.service error

    After seeing no errors from pve7to8 --full, I upgraded to 8.0. The upgrade seems to complete successfully except keys pressed on a USB keyboard do not correspond to the characters shown on my monitor. For example if I type "root" on the keyboard, "prry" appears on the monitor and I cannot logon...
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    [SOLVED] Green Icons in Server View

    I'm running PVE 7.4-13. Today, for the first time I saw icons with green check mark and green arrowheads for both containers and VMs in server view of the GUI. I'm not sure what if anything this means and could not find anything in the forums. Here is what I see: Does this mean anything?
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    [SOLVED] Backup Client NULL message Body

    Hi: I'm using proxmox-backup-client 2.3.3-1 on PVE 7.3-6. I'm having problems getting email notifications when I run the following commands as root from PVE: export PBS_PASSWORD and PBS_FINGERPRINT proxmox-backup-client backup etc.pxar:/etc --include-dev /etc/pve --repository...
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    Not Getting PVE 7.3 Update Notifications

    I’m using PVE 7.3-6. I am getting email notifications from backup jobs but NOT when package updates are available. Under Datacenter>Users>root@pam, I have entered my gmail email account. The same email account is used in Datacenter>Backups>jobs>Send email to. I am having the same issue with PBS...
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    [SOLVED] Locked put of PVE 7.3-4 GUI

    All: I'm running the latest version of PVE. While trying to add SSL certs, I've locked myself out and cannot login via GUI. I get a timeout message when accessing the GUI. I can still use ssh. Is there a way for me to rollback back to before I added the ssl cert? I did make a backup of /etc...
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    Communications Failure (0) Error

    I just want to document my observations related to communications errors when clicking on storage items in PVE 7.3-4. Hopefully, this will help developers and others in resolving this issue. I run PVE in a very simple homelab environment with all storage options either on the host (via VM ...
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    How to check PVE boot disk integrity

    I am running PVE 7.3-4. Trying to image my boot disk with clonezilla always fails. I'd like make sure the problem is not with my system before going to the clonezilla forums. Toward that end, I'd like to know if running fsck is the way to check my boot disk? I am suspicious since clonezilla runs...
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    [SOLVED] Backup to Proxmox Backup Server Fail

    Hi: I’m running PVE 7.3-4 and PBS 2.3-2. The PBS is a VM on the PVE just for evaluation purposes. All attempts to backup a container on the PVE to the PBS fail and I and emailed the following message. Can anyone help with what is going wrong? Detailed backup logs: vzdump 201 --mailto...
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    SG-1100 LAN Port Failure?

    Hi all: I am using an SG-1100 with the latest stable pfsense+ software release. I bought it in August of 2020. I have had no issues until recently when I suspect the LAN port is no longer working. I have multiple VLANs setup and can’t access the device through the web interface connected to the...
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    Multiple Disk Setup

    All: I plan to install PVE 7.3 with 2 NVME drives for use in a home-lab environment. Here is what I want to do: Install PVE 7.3 on a 58GB Intel Optane SSD and use that drive for OS only. Use 1TB SSD for VMs & Containers (LVM thin provisioning). I also want to store ISO/container templates...
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    [SOLVED] VLAN config with Managed Switch

    HI All: I am currently running latest version of Proxmox VE 7. My network configurations is as follows: All routing, firewall and VLAN configuration/management done by physical pfSense appliance. VLAN10 and VLAN52 are configured pfSense is connected to an physical 4-port managed switch via...
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    Add Drive for VMs to PVE7

    Hi, I am currently using the latest pve 6 version in a one disk system. I’ve created and backed-up several VMs to a network share. I plan to clean install pve 7 with two disks and use the second disk for VMs. Can some help me with how to restore my backed-up VMs to the second disk of the pve...