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    Dropped network packets from VM but host OK.

    I have a single host PVE version 8.1.4 with a pretty basic out of the box configuration I have 2 debian 12 LXC containers 1 debian 12 VM 1 Windows 2019 Server VM The PVE host itself has no problems accessing the outside world and shows consistent ping latency with now packet loss. However the...
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    [SOLVED] DigitaOcean Deployment

    Hi Has anyone successfully managed to install PMG on a DigitalOcean Droplet? I have been trying on a Debian 10 droplet with the standard package and also the container package but with no luck. Keep getting this: dpkg: error processing package pmg-api (--configure): installed pmg-api package...
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    Storage I/O problem during upgrade

    Hi I am just in the middle of upgrading the first node in my cluster from version 4.4 to 5. Towards the end of the upgrade I started getting the following message which keep scrolling round and around: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[1941289]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 31851: grub-install...
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    Remove VM but retain disk

    Hi I had a broken Nextcloud VM with two disks attached - one for the OS and one for the data. I built a new VM with a new OS disk and added the previous data disk from the broken VM so both VMs share one data disk. I would like to remove the broken VM but I do not want it to delete the data...
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    LXC resize ubuntu guest

    Hi I have been trying to resize an ubuntu 14.04 LXC for several hours now and it's getting a little frustrating. The original container was set up as 64Gb and I have extended it to 320Gb on my 4.0-48 host. The backend storage is LVM on a DELL iSCSI SAN. In the proxmox Web gui if I browse my...
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    NFS storage locks up Windows guest

    Hi Not sure this is one for the Proxmox forum or FreeNAS forum, but here goes... I have a standalone PVE 3.4.11 host with two KVM guests - one Windows 2012 and one Fedora Linux. This server is primarily a Windows backup server with quite a lot of local storage. Recently we were running out of...
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    iSCSI on second cluster node

    Hi I have been running a single Proxmox VE node (original v4 Beta and now v4 release) since the v4 Beta was released. I have is connected to a DELL MD3000i iSCSI SAN with multipath enabled and working. There are two LUNs on the SAN with an LVM volume on each and I am using both. This has been...
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    Delete old backup prior to new backup

    Hi I have proxmox doing snapshot backups to a series of 1Tb hotswap USB disks which get rotated each night. This has been working fine until the backup job grew over 500Gb. As VZdump deletes the old backup after a successful backup we are running out of space each night and have to manually go...
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    VMware to PVE migration - guest locks up

    Hi As part of my big plan to rid our company of VMware servers, I migrated my first guest over to Proxmox recently. This guest is an old Fedora box used as a DNS server (BIND) and is scheduled to be replaced soon so not a huge problem for me if it dies. I Migrated and converted the vmdk to a...
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    4.0.36 Upgrade and lost LXC containers

    Hi I have just upgraded my PVE 4.0.24 to 4.0.36. I shut down all CTs and VMs first, upgraded then rebooted. When the host came back up I noticed some of the LXC CTs were missing. Reviewing the SysLog there are lots of errors concerning the file system of the Loop devices. I can browse the file...
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    tar.lzo backups will not restore in PVE4 Beta

    Hi I have a PVE 4 Beta installation in test at the moment. I have a handful of non-critical LXC guests running on there. I have been backing them up to a remote NFS mount using LZO compression. After a power failure I am trying to restore one of the tar.lzo backups. When I select it in the NFS...
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    Moving production PVE hosts into a cluster

    Hi I have three PVE hosts on three separate sites (2 x v3.4 and 1 x v4.0 BETA1). All have production VMs and openVZ containers (LXC) running on them. We are planning to relocate them all onto one site and build a 4 node cluster (adding a new host). We have a relatively small window in which to...
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    Multipath with a DELL MD3000i

    Hi I am struggling to get multipath working with Proxmox 4 Beta and a DELL MD3000i over iSCSI. I haven't tried with Proxmox 3 but I assume it isn't a beta issue and just me not grasping it. I think I am getting close to the goal. The first issue I find is the following errors after running...
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    Ctrl+Alt+Del not working

    Hi I have performed a P2V migration of a Windows SBS 2003 server using Clonezilla, onto a Proxmox 3.1 cluster. The conversion seems to have gone well, but I am unable to log into the server as the Send Ctrl+Alt+Del menu doesn't appear to be working, even though the mouse control is fine. I have...
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    Monday is go slow day for one VM

    Hi We have a single Proxmox VE 3.1 host which runs two guest servers: Windows SBS 2011 Windows 2008 R2 A couple of months ago we had a problem when the main pve storage volume filled up, bringing both guest servers to their knees. I managed to migrate one of the servers to a different storage...
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    HELP - having a nightmare with client's production server!

    Hi I've been up all night trying to fix a customers Proxmox server but lack of sleep is making it hard to focus now. They have a single DELL server running PVE 2.3 with three local RAID arrays. There are two windows 2008 servers running on the host, each having a virtual disk on each of the...
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    Having trouble with bind mount

    [SOLVED] Hi I have a new PVE 3.1 server. I have a second RAID array with an LVM volume mounted in fstab as /FP02storage That is fine and I can use that volume. I am trying to bind mount it into VM 100 as /FP02storage There is a 100.mount file with the following script: #!/bin/bash ...
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    Backups started failing

    Hi running PVE 2.3-13 I experienced a virt server running really slowly so I shut down both guest servers and rebooted the host server. Since then, the nightly backups (to USB disk) have failed with: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 100 101 --quiet 1 --mailto xxx@xxx.com --mode snapshot...
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    Noob storage problem

    SOLVED Hi I have a new DELL server with three RAID arrays of a PERC controller Array 1: Mirrored300Gb SAS disks (Where proxmox is installed) Array 2: Mirrored300Gb SAS disks (used for fast data access) Array 3: RAID 5 3 x 2Tb SATA disks (used for slow data access) Proxmox 2.3 installed and...
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    Multipath failover time (2 minutes)

    Hi I have a couple of hosts connected to a DELL MD3200i with multipath configured for two connections per host. If I unplug the active iSCSI cable and execute multipath -ll at the same time, it takes over 2 minutes to get the result which then shows the connection as failed and the failover as...

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