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    Extreme high memory utilization.

    Thank you so much! Meanwhile I found ZFS eating up half of host memory, as usual. That is the root cause. Last question (not found in guide): What would be a proper number ( "X"*1024*1024*1024) or calculation method to limit min/max memory usage of ZFS? Is it per VM or which way? options zfs...
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    Extreme high memory utilization.

    Answer to all of you Probably I went to wrong way with pmxcfs, That is why I'm ask community for help. Yes ZFS in use, one of my drive managed by RAID (RAID5) and ZFS employed, because of snapshoot requirement. *I know this ZFS config is not supported, but no other way to have snapshoot option...
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    Extreme high memory utilization.

    HI, Latest build running on a solo HP server (not a cluster) and I found extreme high memory utilization. When no VMs running 191+GB used of 384G. Seems to be that usr/bin/pmxcfs causing this problem, Stopped and disabled pve-ha-lrm.service and pve-ha-crm.service Not helped. Running htop did...
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    Windows 2000 and 2003 hosted on ESXi - ProxMomx migration to

    Hi, We have some old systems because service/apps running top on that cannot be upgraded. New version does not exist. I need some info which virtio version support this regarding to operating system versions? (32bit all.) I have no time to test it out injecting al VirtIi ISOsl. (MergeIDE...
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    ESXi to Proxmox - Network issue - ProxMox Bridge prohibit communication

    No firewall applied, it is a test system Problem on ARP level OSI layer2 PMX host bridge preventing ARP broadcast traffic form local VMs and itself to locally hosted ESXi VM only. ESXi host * 192.168.100.14 ip address another VM on host A => incomplete * 192.168.100.1 VM hosted by ESXi...
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    ESXi to Proxmox - Network issue - ProxMox Bridge prohibit communication

    It bothers me a little that you think about me so silly. All VMs and PMX host sits on VMBR0 an all hosts. VMBR200 is a storage net, not used yet on that hosts and VMs BTW VMBR200 and VMBR0 fully isolated on switch level. So VMBR0 is the main link on all hosts and VMs yet Nothing to do with...
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    ESXi to Proxmox - Network issue - ProxMox Bridge prohibit communication

    Hi, ESX version too old running as embedded (ESXi 6.0 Update 2, build ) No option to upgrade My results: - ping a ESXi VM from a VM running on the same node, **FAILED** - ping a ESXi VM from a VM running on a different node in the cluster, **OK** - ping a PVE VM on the same node from a ESXi...
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    ESXi to Proxmox - Network issue - ProxMox Bridge prohibit communication

    Hi, I found an interesting symptom. Have a 3 node cluster (upgraded 7.x to 8.2.x latest) and one of them (let1s call A host) hosting my ESXi host. ANY ProxMox VMs on host A unable to ping (or communiicate) ESXi VM on host A, but the rest B and C node VMs can. Moving forward All of my A or...
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    [SOLVED] Troubleshooting: 10GbE NIC (Configuration Issues )

    Same issue happened to me on my HP DL380 G9. (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810) It was a hardware conflict affected my 1st PCI slot where another HBA adapter were placed. Purchased a secondary PCI riser and relocated the HBA adapter there, and problem solved. Spent days to resolve, this was my...
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    Much higher memory consumption on host compared to VM

    Hello, I found some issue . One of my VM running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which has a file processing app. For test purpose qbittorrent installed to perform IO and UL/DL simultaneously Inside the VM nothing suspicious Memory consumption look normal inside Just 1.3 Gig When I switch over to Proxmox...
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    How to pause VM after a timeframe of any console inactivity?

    Hello Chris, In short: Yes. My plan to build a long term running remote lab solution with overcommitted VM config. Similar what you can have on Cloud systems like that. In case when a participant who is stopped to interact with console such NoVNC or even any way in certain time, I would like to...
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    How to pause VM after a timeframe of any console inactivity?

    Hello, Is there any solution in ProxMox to suspend/pause VMs and containers after a period of time of console operation inactivity? thanks George
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    [SOLVED] After upgrade unable to run VM in embedded ESXi with error: "You are running VMware ESX through an incompatible hypervisor"

    Solved in case of VMWare ESX as embedded system running on ProxMox (KVM) /etc/modprobe.d/kvm-intel.conf must set like this: options kvm ignore_msrs=y options kvm-intel nested=Y ept=Y options kvm report_ignored_msrs=0 In addition if options kvm ignore_msrs=y NOT SET error coming up like...
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    [SOLVED] After upgrade unable to run VM in embedded ESXi with error: "You are running VMware ESX through an incompatible hypervisor"

    Just tested... No problem with nested PVE 7.2 in PVE 7,2. Installed error free, test VM started ,no issue Please help what is this "hide Proxmox and trick ESXi" procedure? No exact match find partial info found Testing with that set: kvm=off error: unable to parse config: kvm=off set...
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    [SOLVED] After upgrade unable to run VM in embedded ESXi with error: "You are running VMware ESX through an incompatible hypervisor"

    PVE upgraded while ago from 6.5 to 7.2 Since that time I had no task to install another VMWare ESXi 6.02 mean commercial (licensed) version, not the free one
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    [SOLVED] After upgrade unable to run VM in embedded ESXi with error: "You are running VMware ESX through an incompatible hypervisor"

    Please review my very fist post Nested KVM enabled PLUS another VMWare running on that host which one was installer prior upgrade from 6.5 to 7.X Parroting myself: cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/nested Y Conclusion: This symptom looks like VT-x not exposed properly after upgrade Wierd issue.
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    [SOLVED] After upgrade unable to run VM in embedded ESXi with error: "You are running VMware ESX through an incompatible hypervisor"

    Update It looks like ProxMox Hypervisor not exposing all host CPU functions to VM Problem around this. After several test "This may be because Intel VT-x/AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS" Missing VT-x :(( cat /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 31 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family ...

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