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    DRBD9 on mdraid with SSD storage

    Hi, We're preparing a migration scenario where we'd like upgrade our Proxmox 3.4 cluster to 4.x and convert our exisitng storage to SSD. Would you consider it smart enough to put DRBD9 based volume over mdadm RAID-10 over a set of SSD storage? AFAIK, SSDs themselves should be able to provide...
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    DRBD9 - production deployment?

    Hi. Would you guys consider DRBD9 with PVE 4.1 stable enough for a production ready solution with a two-node (no HA for now) setup hosting an email apliance storing few hundred GBs of data? Or would it be better to stick to 3.4 until DRBD9 matures? And if I go with 3.4 will it be enough deploy...
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    qdisk support in Proxmox 4.0

    Hi,Are there any plans to add qdisk support for two-node HA in future Proxmox 4.0 builds?We're running a three servers setup where one of them acts as an NFS storage and /qdisk member and we'd love to stick with this easy-to-maintain setup.
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    NUMA and CPU hotplugging - best practices

    Hi,We have a dual socket Xeon E5-2620v2 based server running proxmox 3.4-6 with HT, 12 cores, 24 threads max, it has a NUMA enabled BIOS.I'd like to know if we should enable NUMA for each of our guest VMs (three W2012R2s running SQL Server 2008/AD controller/IIS Server) as well? Will it improve...
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    Changing node's ip address/interface

    Hi, We've been having some serious connection issues with our two node proxmox cluster while they were connected using 10Gb SFP link, so we decided to get a separated (direct) 1gbit RJ45 connection for the nodes to communicate and leave that 10gbit link exclusively for the shared storage NFS...
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    Node gets evicted during backup task

    Hi, We've recently configured a Proxmox node with two hosts and shared storage. All three servers are connected directly via 10Gbit Intel 82599EB based SFP+ link. Storage server runs on latest OpenMediavault and provides 32TB of RAID10 (mdadm based) space for both backups, ISOs and VMs over NFS...
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    Windows 2012 idle CPU usage

    Hello, We've recently installed a Windows 2012 R2 as a guest OS on our dual E5-2620 Proxmox 3.3-1/a06c9f73 based host. It's in the process of testing and tweaking and what we're trying to do now is reduce its idle CPU usage. We've already switched to virtio-blk and vitio-net drivers, added the...
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    What's the advantage of having a quorum disk in a two-node cluster?

    Hi, The title says it all. I'd like to know why is it recommended to have a quorum in this guide: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Two-Node_High_Availability_Cluster What benefits does it provide in such setup? I mean, AFAIK quorum, is used to share cluster's current state and configuration...
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    Suggestions/warnings to a Windows 2012/MS SQL virtualized setup

    Hi. I work at a medium-sized company which uses an ERP system utilizing MS SQL as it's database backend. The entire setup is (as of now) based around a single HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server running Windows 2008 R2, which has 2x Xeon E5504, 56GB of RAM and 8x600GB SAS 15k HDDs hooked up to a...
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    Forcing gzip intead of lzo for automated backups

    Hi. We're using Proxmox 3.1-20 and we'd like to force vzdump to use gzip as compression algorithm for it's automated backup tasks. Is there any way to do this? I know that I can start it manually with: vzdump -all --compress gzip, or edit /etc/vzdump.conf but there's no option to specify...

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