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    Proxmox Desktop

    Looking to purchase a refurbished economical desktop to run Proxmox at home for testing. Was looking on amazon. Anyone have suggestions?
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    ZFS RAID Performance

    Say I have 3 drive slots. For random I/O would I be better off with ZFS RAID1 over 2 drives or ZFS RAID5 over 3 drives? Last time I tried to setup RAID1 over 3 drives on Proxmox it would not work.
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    Move VM to New Server

    Each server has 4 sata drives in simple ZFS RAID 6 style array. I do have 1gbps connectivity on both of them.
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    Move VM to New Server

    I need to move a large VM from one server to a newer one in different location. Is there a way to stop the VM and move it to new server and restart on new server? The backup process seems to take a very long time so I was looking for a faster method.
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    [SOLVED] Failed to import pool rpool

    I installed Proxmox 6.0-1 on an older Supermicro server using ISO image. Used ZFS and several drives in ZFS raid array configured from the proxmox install GUI. On boot I get this every time. Command: /sbin/zpool import -N 'rpool' Message: cannot import 'rpool' : no such pool available Error...
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    Failed Drive

    I have Proxmox 5.3 installed on 4 drives configured in a raid6 like array. Say one drive is throwing errors. How do I remove and replace just that single drive? When I installed proxmox were all drives in array configured to be bootable? How can I insure the replacement is also?
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    Procedure to import vmware OVA to Proxmox 5.0-23 with ZFS VM store

    Any updates to this procedure for latest version of proxmox? Would be nice if this was in the wiki.
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    OVA Image

    I have an OVA image file. How do I go about loading that into Proxmox?
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    Adding ZIL Device

    Looking here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux Assuming the ssd drive is sdc. # parted /dev/sdc (parted) rm 1 # removed all partitions from ssd one by one if any (parted) mktable gpt (parted) mkpart logical File system type? [ext2]? Start? 0% End? 16G (parted) quit # ls -la...
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    Adding ZIL Device

    I have a simple install of Proxmox on four SATA drives in a raid z2 array. As I understand adding an SSD based ZIL device will greatly improve write speeds? How do I add the device? Is this correct assuming default ZFS setup was used when installed? zpool add rpool log /dev/sde If I...
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    cannot import rpool

    Smart Values: UDMA_CRC_Error_Count = 555 Shows 555 errors for this drive. This will be the 3rd drive that has failed in this machine over last 3+ years though. Its Supermicro case, power supply and motherboard. The power supply was bundled with case.
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    cannot import rpool

    They are brand new enterprise disks. # zpool status -v pool: rpool state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and...
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    cannot import rpool

    Installed proxmox on four new enterprise sata drives in ZFS raid 10 like array using the proxmox-ve_5.3-1.iso installer. I updated to latest version using apt-get and rebooted. Then I added a few test VMs to it. It ran for a week perfectly. Rebooted it yesterday then received this error and...
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    Install Fails after Reboot

    I tried two different iso releases. I also tried different hardware. It’s like it does not like a raid6 like zfs Install.
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    Install Fails after Reboot

    I installed proxmox from latest 5.2 ISO image onto 6 sata drives using ZFS-Z-3. Upon reboot I get this error: "error: compression algorithm inherit not supported" "Entering rescue mode..." Any idea what is wrong?
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    Install Issues

    What about installing proxmox on a SATA DOM and using the ZFS array for the VM's?
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    Install Issues

    Would there be a better SAS controller to use that could handle 12 bays?
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    Install Issues

    I am trying to install latest proxmox 5.2 on a Supermicro system with 12x hot swap 3.5 bays and a SAS 9210-8I SATA/SAS controller connected to them. https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9210-8i I am not trying to use the controller for raid just as a sata controller...
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    vzdump speed

    Would ionice 0 yield the fastest backup?
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    Speed Up Backup

    I have a Proxmox host machine with one large Centos KVM image running. The proxmox host has two drives in a ZFS raid1 like array. It has a single second drive used for backups. I want to backup this image and move it too new machine as fast as possible. This is the only KVM running on this...

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