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    Firewall rule : Use IP range for source.

    Hello everyone, I'd like to allow access to a /24 ip address range. For example : 10.10.10.242-10.10.10.254. I tried all different formats and could not get it to work in the source field of proxmox firewall. Do I really have to enter in all IP addresses individually. That would be to be about...
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    Best/Easiest way to move VM between completely separate servers

    Hello, I have two dedicated servers that are running Proxmox CE, completely independent of each other. I would like to move my VMS between the two in the easiest way possible. They are all running Debian 12 web servers. I would appreciate any ideas on how to best do this. My plan was to sftp a...
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    Security Updates

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to learn about proper security procedure with proxmox. On my current server : root@server:~# hostnamectl Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.2.16-8-pve Architecture: x86-64 It seem's 6.2.16 had gone EOL one year...
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    Postfix not working = where are the logs?

    Hello everyone, I am trying to setup postfix to send me system emails via gmail exchange. I've had this setup without issue on proxmox 7. I am now running proxmox 8 fully updated. I set everything up. Unfortunateyl the following two commands (using proper email addresses) do not work. ```...
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    I don't understand what Firewall:Yes does on virtual machine?

    Hello everyone, I have 2 security groups. One is applied to the datacenter and allows port 22 access. Another is applied to the virtual machine and allows VPN access. This works fine as far as I can tell. However, today I found the setting, under a virtual machine => Firewall => Options =>...
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    Proxmox 8 Login : Fail2Ban not working

    Hello everyone, I followed this guide : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Fail2ban Then implemented all the attempts @ https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pve-8-0-%E2%80%93-fail2ban-log-locations-missing.129338/ When I manually trigger the maxretrys nothing happens. When I run the test code provided...
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    Simplest redundancy setup for two servers

    Hello everyone, I'm a relatively new system admin. I have two dedicated servers at two different data centers. I was hoping to find a simple setup where my second/backup server was kept "hot" and I was able to swap to it if things went south on my primary server. Could someone tell me the...
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    Help understanding default firewall rules

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to setup proxmox firewall for the first time. I've used ufw, csf, firewalld prior...seems like having an integrated solution would be nice and my rules aren't super complicated.I was planning on setting up some security groups and applying them. My main confusion...
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    Simple two server redundancy/failover with proxmox?

    Hello everyone, I have two dedicated servers (in different datacenters) that I wanted to setup redundancy/failover with. My preference would be to have a simple setup, even if that means I have to sacrifice some functionality. Would anyone be willing to explain, on a high level, what my options...
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    How to increase hard drive size

    Hello everyone, I'm am unable to increase the size of my hard drive. All the guides I found are for a different storage configuration and are assuming the partition is not the primary (running/used) for the VM. Can some one please help me figure out how to increase the size of the disk on my...
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    Predictable network device names = no network access

    I'm trying to install the newest (6.1) version of proxmox and an unable to. My networking interfaces are getting named random names (renameX etc) and not working at all). Frankly I don't know what is going / why I am having this problem. A few days ago I did an install of Centos8 without any...