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    pulse fills syslog with flood messages

    Hi After installing pulse monitor for proxmox (in LXC), i have flooded in messages, like below DemoProx sshd-session[32039]: Connection closed by authenticating user root 192.168.20.15 port 50520 [preauth] These messages are non stop and port changes in each line. The preauth tag means it...
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    CT migration from one node to another

    Hi Noticed today that after backup of an LXC, when tried restoring it to another node I got a msg .... tar: ./etc/vzdump/pct.conf: time stamp 2024-11-03 11:50:15.351796943 is 10308.553838456 s in the future tar: ./etc/vzdump/pct.fw: time stamp 2024-11-03 11:50:15.371796943 is...
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    Solved - Win VM migration between nodes and domain trust

    Hi Yesterday, I started the process of transferring all Vms from the old node to the new one. Vms include a Domain Controller, a File Server, an SQL server, 2 win 10 & 11 machines for some services and a RDS server. All servers are based on Win2019 OS. Hardware is different the servers...
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    zfs_arc_max default value

    I was searching a completely different issue while I edited the /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf file where I noticed that options zfs zfs_arc_max=13476298752 My system has 128Gb or ram and though that by default zfs_arc_max tries to almost limit that ram amount (at least in older PVe versions)...
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    Blocksize / Recordsize / Thin provision options

    Hi Every time I configure a new Proxmox node for production environment it takes 1-2 years and each time I stuck on that volblock size value. As of 2024 noticed it is set as 16k default. My questions are as follows: - how come and that parameter <blocksize> isn't available to choose or...
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    Network cards - specs / disfunction

    Hi A generalize title since it contains different network cards and issues Im dealing with. I ll start with the informative one which I need your confirmation. I have installed in several servers the 10Gbe Mellanox Connect-x 3 pro (X3 R740 / X2 R730 / X1 T7610) card which consists of 2...
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    Upgrade to 8 and timesync warning

    Hi During the process of upgrading to proxmox 8 and running the script pve7to8, I got the result of the test script: INFO: Checking for supported & active NTP service.. WARN: systemd-timesyncd is not the best choice for time-keeping on servers, due to only applying updates on boot. While not...
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    strings: '/lib/libc.so.6': No such file

    Sorry for the title but I wanted to be as descriptive as I could be, in order someone else searches it in the future. So... upon my effort to install a cli program for proxmox in order to communicate with the SNMP card of the ups and gracefully shut down after all VMs do so, i tried to install...
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    [SOLVED] cluster stuck upon last updates

    Hi I know that there were some similar issues since the earlier versions of proxmox about this matter and that is why I am going to include the outcome of those commands seen been asked for further assistance. Issue happened before 2 hours when I tried to update the first node. I let it...
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    Backup speeds to an nfs remote storage

    Hi I was testing yesterday the intermediate truenas server between 2 nodes, since they now both have it as a remote storage. On truenas side, I used as a backup pool a set of 6 disks (sas3 hdd 2.5" 1.2tb /10k each) and set them as raidz2. On proxmox all vm's are on a raid 10 (striped...
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    properly remove an external storage

    Hi Even though there are relevant questions on that matter and after reading a lot of them I ve made my personal guide, I came across this need yesterday and trying to follow back my guide, noticed that there are some gaps that needec to be completed. So my initial guide with an example...
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    Removing external storage steps

    Hi I had attached an external hdd via usb to the server and after initializing it and creating a zfs, created a directory on top in order to store backups. i need now to remove it and probably manually umount it, in order to attach it to a different server and restore one Vm from there (in...
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    Flooded messages for temps

    I am having below type of syslog messages for hdd temps attribute which is both insanely high, when the room is constantly at 19 degrees Celsius and smart data showing all temps of disks between 29 -32 for sas drives and 38-41 for the sata ones Jun 26 11:37:45 HHprox smartd[4621]: Device...
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    Manipulate Promiscuous mode??

    Hi I was trying to setup a VPN server on a VM and got this message during configuration .... <<<Some VMs prohibit the Promiscuous mode (MAC Address Spoofing) on the network adapters by default. If Promiscuous mode is administratively disabled, the local bridge function between a Virtual...
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    Urgent for production level replacement failed drive

    Hi I already read many posts about the title's procedure and had a guide written, but when it comes real world production environment, anxiety takes place and many things could go wrong. So I need your approval, before driving 65Kms to work on Saturday to replace a failed (ready to fail)...
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    How to minimize the syslog flood messages

    Hi Is there a way to minimize the number of times proxmox searches for missing services or connections? For instance I have shut down the 10g connection between prox and Nas and the syslog floods like below which is irritating and keeps ssd busy without (for me at least) any reason for...
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    Prox/TrueNas 10g connection sharing results

    Hi i recently finished the 10g connection between Proxmox and TrueNas Scale. My purpose might be a little odd to be considered as a general use case scenario but here it goes nevertheless. The connection established via NFS and Iscsi and I left async as default so enabled for both...
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    Meaning of <<INFO: backup is sparse:>> during VM backup

    Hi i d like to know what is the meaning of ......... INFO: backup is sparse: 54.26 GiB (49%) total zero data, even though it seems to finish successfully . .... and the rest of the message INFO: transferred 109.00 GiB in 731 seconds (152.7 MiB/s) INFO: archive file size: 39.43GB INFO...
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    KVM: SMP vm created on host with unstable TSC; guest TSC will not be reliable

    Hi As the title clearly states, I noticed that message when I started a Vm with qm start command and noticed that at syslog (probably it is going on for a while or since the start of the VM creation). Searching for this error, doesn t really help a lot. To me it seems like an...
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    [SOLVED] Save some from frustration if you cant access GUI or PVE has no connection at all

    Hi Happened me before a year, happened again yesterday after an update which was correlated to pve update. At least the first time it happened I had a pop up message if I would like to update or keep the /etc/network/interfaces file. Now without warning or anything updated, I reboot the...