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Hi all, I have a cluster running PVE 4.2 The VMs are protected by HA. Every VMs control the status of the rack UPS (APC) by network, and shutdown itself in case of low battery. What's happen after the VMs are down ? The HA subsystem will restart immediatly the VMs ? Thanks! PieroB

Hi all, I have a cluster with a pair of Windows Server virtual machine. It's possibile to backup HA protected VMs with shutdown method ? The backup process shutdown the VM, HA after a while auto restart it, or I'm wrong ? Thanks. Piero

Hi all, I have a PVE 4.2 cluster with 2 nodes and DRBD9. The drbdpool virtual group size is 7.10 Tb I have 2 VMs, each with 2 raw ide disks of 100 and 1000 Gb, so the total used space for VMs should be 2200 Gb. All drbd disks are UpToDate and all is working fine. But the question is: When I...

Hi all, I have a cluster with 2 PVE servers with DRBD9. The replicated volume is about 7 Tb, the disks are 7200 rpm near line SAS. The communications channel for DRBD9 is done via 4 Gbit dedicated network cards in bond configuration (round robbin). The sync speed is about 10 Mbyte/sec The...

Hi all, just installed 2 PVE 4.2 servers in 2 node cluster configuration. VM data is shared via DRBD9. All is working well. Now I'm trying to do some tests... I have just tried to shutdown a node and force migration of a VM running on that node to the other node. On the running node, I tried...

Hi all, I have a cluster with 3 PVE nodes and all is going well from long time. Now, from sometime, the task windows in the bottom of the GUI is not updated and I can't see tasks in progress like backup etc. The cluster logs is updated OK. This happen in all the 3 nodes... Any idea ? Thanks Piero

Hi all, I have a PVE cluster with 3 nodes. All is working well, but from 2 days a backup cron job for 2 VM running on one node doesn't start and no error is reported... Any idea ? Thanks PieroB

Dear all, I have a cluster with 3 nodes running PVE 3.0.23 and all is working great with some VM running debian, other running WIN SRV and other running Ubuntu 12.04 Now I'm trying to install a VM with Ubuntu 13.04, but after the install the VM freeze in a random way... Any help will be very...

Hi all, I have a cluster with 2 nodes and DRBD, no HA. All is working well with PVE 3.1 I have a question for you: what I have to do if a node crash ? How can I manually move running VMs on the crashed node to the other one running node ? Thanks in advance. Piero Baudino

Hi all, sorry for another question here in the forum, but I'm trying to well configure my first Proxmox HA cluster.;) I have 3 nodes, fencing works ok via "fence_ipmilan" with action "off". I'm making some tests like shutdown manullay all the nodes and then switch on it at the same time...

Hi all, I'm fully testing my first proxmox HA configuration with 3 nodes, PVE version 3.0-23. I have discovered the following about VM autostart: I have disabled the "automatic start" of a VM, activated the new cluster configuration, and then shutdown the VM; after few seconds, the VM started...

Hi all, I'm trying to understand if fence_drac5 is working. I can telnet to the IP address of the IDRAC interface, but if I issue the following command: root@node1:~# /usr/sbin/fence_drac5 -o status -a 172.16.2.3 -l root -p IDRAC_PASSWORD -c 'admin1->' -v --login-timeout=1 telnet> set binary...

Hi all, I'm just testing a 3 node PVE 2.3 cluster. I'm trying manual fencing... Here my cluster.conf: <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster config_version="4" name="CLUSTERNAME"> <cman keyfile="/var/lib/pve-cluster/corosync.authkey"/> <fencedevices> <fencedevice agent="fence_manual"...

Hi all, I plan to configure a 2 node cluster based on 2 Dell servers and a MD3200 DAS (via SAS link). I'm looking for HA, so I need a quorum disk. The (stupid) question is: the quorum disk should be used via iSCSI from a VM running in the cluster ? What happen if the quorum disk fail (example...

Hi all, I'm on the way to do a new configuration for a customer. The configuration provides: - n. 2 DELL hosts (R620 or similar) - n. 1 DELL MD32xx connected via SAS HBA The question now is: Proxmox or ESXi ? ESXi have a well documented solution for the integration between hosts and MD32xx...

Hi all, I have just installaed PVE version 2.2 (last updated release) on a dual socket (4 cores per socket) server. Here the detail about 1 of che 8 CPU: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @...

Hi all, I'm running PVE versione 1.7 with the last update before version 1.8 The server has 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (8 core) and 16 Gb of RAM. The kernel version is: 2.6.32-4-pve About the datastore, this is the situation: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%...

Hi all, I'm new to Proxmox VE, I have just installed one server and made a test with a Linux guest and all worked great. Now I'm planning to install a WIN 2008 SRV guest, and I would like to know what's the best file system type for the guest, qcow2 or something else ? What I need is the...