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    Enhancement Request

    Currently the logs that are being generated for events like change of a VM memory from 2048 to 2080 would generate a log like the one provided below. Sep 08 08:24:08 pve-cl2 pvedaemon[1379]: <root@pam> update VM 101: -delete balloon,shares -memory 2080 As visible that it cannot be understood...
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    Enterprise SSD, Dell R730xd servers, 20Gbps link, still Ceph iops is too low

    Hi, We are running a 3 node cluster of Proxmox ceph and getting really low iops from the VMs. Around 4000 to 5000. Host 1: Server Model: Dell R730xd Ceph network: 10Gbps x2 (LACP configured) SSD: Kingstone DC500M 1.92TB x3 Storage Controller: PERC H730mini RAM: 192GB CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU...
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    Backup verification takes 4-5 days to complete

    Hi, we are taking Proxmox VM backup by Proxmox backup server. There are 10 large VMs having around 2TB of storage on each of the VMs. We do not have any issue backing up the VMs. However, the verification job takes around 4-5 days to complete and create high IO wait. sometimes even the...
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    Changing the CPU type from KVM64 to [host] slows down the VM

    I want to change the CPU type of the VM from kvm64 (Default) to [host]. But after restarting the VM, it is operating slow. Disk IOPS drops. Do I need to perform any extra tweak? Please note, the VM is running Windows 2016 with Virtio 0.1.208 (Latest) installed.
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    RAID-1 ZFS in Proxmox with Crucial MX500 (2TB) drives give 500iops - terrible

    We are trying to run MSSQL 2017 on window 2016 server. We do not have any RAID controller. Instead we have H330 mini HBA controller on our Dell R730xd. We have created ZFS mirror with 2 Crucial MX500 (2TB) drives with the following settings: ashift = 12 compression = off arcsize = 48 Gig The...
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    Windows server 2016 disk active time becomes 100% suddenly

    We are running 2 sql server 2017 over windows server 2016. All of a sudden the disk active time becomes 100% and query executions become slow. After sometimes it becomes normal and functioning correctly. We are also having a 3rd vm running with windows server 2016 on the same storage. When the...
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    SQL server 2017 is running slow over time

    Hi, We are running 2 SQL 2017 server VMs over Windows 2016. Everything is running fine for one day. However, the CPU utilization is reaching very high after a day on both the servers and the performance is degrading. The catchy part is High CPU utilization is seen on both the servers at the...
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    device uuid is not found, however directory is mounted

    Hi, I have created a xfs directory using GUI on a 4 disk RAID-5. I can see the RAID-5 is mounted on the directory using uuid. However, i cannot find the uuid in the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ folder. in fact, I cannot find the uuid in the entire proxmox system. I have two other directories, I can find...
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    Proxmox VE on Gigabyte R281-3C1 with CRA3338 array controller

    We are going to purchase 4 x Gigabyte R281-3C1 servers with CRA3338 array controller to create a Proxmox CEPH cluster. Has there been any issue while using this server or this array controller? Users who have used this server to host Proxmox VE, please let us know your experience with this...
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    Upgradation of Proxmox VE cluster from 6.3.3 to 7.x

    Hi, We are running a 3-node cluster of Proxmox VE 6.3.3 with Ceph 15.2.8. We want to upgrade them to the newly released 7.x. Additionally, we want to remove a server from this cluster and add 3 more to them. In total, we would have 5 nodes. Currently, we are using Proxmox backup server 1.1.5...
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    Subscription on Older version of Proxmox mail gateway

    Hi, We are running Proxmox MG 5.1.2. and the current mail gateway version is 6.2. We want to purchase a subscription for Proxmox MG. However, we still want to run the version 5.1.2 for the time being. We shall upgrade it later. Do you think it is possible to purchase a subscription for 5.1.2...
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    Running SAP HANA with RAM of 512 GB to 1TB

    Hi, We wish to run SAP HANA and couple of other VMs on Proxmox environment in PRODUCTION. SAP HANA will require 512 GB to 1TB RAM to operate. Initially we wish to go with 3-node architecture with Ceph configured as a storage backend. My questions are as follow: 1) Will Proxmox support a VM...
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    Proxmox installation on SuperMicro server with 4node cluster

    Hi, Is anyone there who could confirm that the following server hardware from SuperMicro would support the latest (as of now) proxmox version 6.1? If it supports, then we shall have 4 of these servers in production environment and look to configure CEPH as storage solution Model SUPERMICRO...