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    new sas disk can not get GPT initialized

    Hi, I installed a new sas 12tb disk, but I can not get it initialized, give me error and task fail. I used smartctl -i /dev/sdx to check it and compare the result with a existing and working disk, I found the new disk was formated with type 2 protection, but my old working disk does not. I...
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    [SOLVED] setting up UTM vm wan port and vpn

    Hi, I am setting up a vm for UTM, and I assigned two bridge vmbr0 and vmbr8 (with two separated nic) to this vm, and vmbr8 shows up in vm as eth1, and I set it up as a wan port in UTM, question: I am trying to setup an openvpn on this UTM, when I login through a vpn from outside, traffic will...
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    How to move ceph mgr to a specific mgr node

    Hi, I have a ceph cluster with 6 nodes, and 3 nodes has mgr installed, and one (Proxmox2) is active and 2 are standby. I had an active zabbix agent installed on proxmox2, so it will send ceph info to zabbix server and it is working fine. But, every time when I have problem with proxmox2, ceph...
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    Procedure to turn off ceph private network switch

    Hi, I have a 6 cluster ceph (12 OSDs) running for a while now, and ceph public and private networks are on separated switches, I need to turn off private network switch for about 30 mins, wondering what is the best practice to do this. Thanks
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    [SOLVED] [solved] zabbix smart monitoring with pbs

    Hi, All I am trying to setup smart monitoring with zabbix, and I can not find /etc/sudoers file, anybody has successfully setup zabbix to use smart to monitor disks on PBS?
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    [Solved] Ceph and Zabbix fail to send data to server

    I have a ceph cluster, and installed Zabbix agent2, i did: 1. Enable Zabbix module 2. I updated Zabbix host ip address But when I try “ceph Zabbix send” got a fail to send message. Here is my question, my ceph is on a 10.0.10.x network, but Zabbix server is on a 192.168.0.x network, fail to...
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    [SOLVED]Ceph dashboard cause ceph manager fail to start

    Hi, everyone; I have a 8 nodes cluster running for a while, and I have ceph on the same cluster. Yesterday, I tried to install and enable ceph dashboard, then caused my ceph manager service failed to restart and all manager service stopped and can not start, here is what I did step by step, and...
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    Linux bridge with two nic

    Hi, I have two nics in a proxmox, and each nic is on two different subnet. I created a Linux bridge to have both nics included, and assign this bridge to a vm. In this vm, I tried to ping a node in other subnet, but can not connect, not sure what did do wrong. The setup seems very...
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    vm can not migrate because of it show a local cd/dvd

    Hi, I have a vm, and I am trying to migrate it to another node, but it shows can not migrate because of a local cd/dvd, but I have no cd/dvd listed in vm's hardware list, wondering how to resolve this. Here is what happen before this: 1. this vm is on HA, and I had nodes cluster network down...
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    upgrade ceph public network from a signle nic to a bond of two nics

    I have a ceph (5 nodes with 2 osds on each node) running with a 10g (single nic) public network, and a 40g (single nic) ceph private network, both networks are on a different vlan. now, I want to upgrade my 10g nic to a bond of two nics (both are separated 10g adaptor), given my ceph is running...
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    setup a vm backup plan to repeat every 7 days

    Hi, All; Just had a pbs installed, and working fine, and I am kind of new to setup a custom backup plan. Here is what I want to do to backup one VM: 1. a full backup on sunday, and then monday to sat do an incremental backup. 2. then every sunday rotate to a new full backup, then repeat an...
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    ceph report low on monitor space

    HI, I have a ceph cluster running for a while now, today one of my monitor node "proxmox6" ceph report a low on available space 19% avail. as shown below, I have a lot of available space, not sure where and how I can assign more space to ceph mon. root@proxmox6:~# df -h Filesystem...
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    HA issue with a pass through pci network card

    Hi, I have 3 nodes cluster HA, and I have a vm with a pass through pci network card on node1, yesterday when I shutdown node1, this vm auto migrate to node2 as per design, but this vm failed to start on node2 because of this pass through pci network card, is this normal? I am running 7.2-7. Thanks
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    LAN # shown in a VM

    Hi; I have a VM with one network device (net0) and a pci passthrough 10g card, in this VM, it shows lan1 = net0 network device, and lan2 = pci passthrough 10g card. My issue is: I want to change VM's lan1 to my pci passthrough 10g card, and lan2 to my net0 network device, how can I do that...
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    how to access a ceph pool from none ceph node

    Hi, I have a 7 nodes pve-cluster on a 1g network with following setup: 1. 7 nodes pve-cluster on a 1g cluster network. 2. node #1 and #2 are older machine, does not have ceph installed 3. node #3-#7 are newer, and have ceph installed, ceph is on a 10g network. 4. I created a pool (I called it...
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    ceph RBD PG # setting

    Hi, all; I have been running a 5 nodes ceph for a while now, I have 10 OSDs. I had one RBD drive setup with 128 pgs and auto scale on. My question is, since I have autoscale on, do I need to increase pg number on this RBD drive? or, proxmox ceph will automatically increase pg number for me?
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    how to adjust node's location in a cluster view tree

    Hi, as per attached picture, I want to move "Proxmox6" node to bottom of cluster tree, I adjusted ID in conf file /etc/pve/corosync.conf, the new IDs only shows up in datacenter cluster view, and in datacenter summary, ID did not take effect. How can I move this node down to the bottom? thanks...
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    [SOLVED] won't boot after upgrade and ceph version mismatch

    Hi, I have a 4 nodes cluster and ceph working well for few months now, one machine has a bit older hardware, cpu = x5670 (about 2010 cpu) Last week, I upgrade to new Kernel 5.13.19-4, then I reboot, Proxmox failed to find boot drive. At the end, I have pull out all ceph osd disks, then reboot...
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    max 6 sata drive per vm

    I am using proxmox7, can not get more than 6 sata drives, anyway to go around this, and add more sata drives? my vm I am trying to setup, it does not take scsi nor virto. thanks.
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    Remote desktop shows two cursors

    Hi, I installed a windows 2019 server VM, then enable remote desktop, but, after I log in through remote desktop, but I saw two mouse cursors, one is vnc cursor (not moving, but shown), other is remote mouse cursor (moving), anybody know how to get rid of vnc cursor? many thanks.

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