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    Temporary mix PVE7 and PVE8 in the same Cluster

    Hey, I'm looking to upgrade all our hosts to better hardware and PVE8. The plan is to purchase the new hardware, add it into the current cluster, migrate all VMs from the PVE7 hosts to the new PVE8 hosts then shut down the PVE7 hosts. Please note that all VMs are stored locally (ZFS) so...
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    How to automatically remove backups from PBS when terminating VM from PVE?

    Hey, PBS+PVE default behaviour is that when a VM is terminated on PVE the backup will be kept on PBS, which is OK for some scenarios. At the same time this means that new users, that have the same VMID, will have access to other users data. Is there any way to sync deletion on PVE with PBS...
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    [SOLVED] Help setting up PMG with cPanel

    Hello, I'm trying to forward all OUTGOING mail from cPanel to PMG. Until now I've: - added * pmg.host.com::26 to WHM -> Smarthost support - added the PMG IP to WHM -> Configure Remote Service IPs -> Remote Mail Server IPs The error I'm getting is: retry time not reached for any host for...
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    How can I shrink a ZFS / RAW disk?

    Hey, I have a 1TB RAW disk (rpool/data/vm-101-disk-0) on a ZFS pool (local-zfs) that I want to shrink to 256 GB. The VM uses cloud-init. The real usage is about 15 GB, so there's plenty of space to shrink. I've tried to do a zfs set volsize=256G rpool/data/vm-101-disk-0 which works, but the...
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    Problem: Disk read/write request responses are too high (read > 20 ms for 15m or write > 20 ms for 15m)

    Hello, Zabbix is reporting this very often: I've watched the activity with iotop, here's 1 minute of recording exactly when Zabbix was reporting the issue: https://www.screencast.com/t/jVUq92jLP Here's the drive information: Here's the SMART information...
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    [SOLVED] PVE notifications - how to?

    Hello, Right now I've made these settings: backup notifications (via GUI) root notifications (via /etc/aliases) zfs-zed is sending messages to root by default, so I guess that I don't need to do any other settings for this I've also installed Zabbix. Are there any other notifications I...
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    [SOLVED] Status Report - Where can I set the recipient address?

    Hello, How/where can I set the recipient address for the daily Status Report? I want it to be sent to another recipient, not to my address. Thank you
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    [SOLVED] Cannot shutdown VM - acpid installed

    Hello, Host information: # pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-4-pve) pve-manager: 7.1-10 (running version: 7.1-10/6ddebafe) pve-kernel-helper: 7.1-9 pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-7 pve-kernel-5.11: 7.0-10 pve-kernel-5.13.19-4-pve: 5.13.19-8 pve-kernel-5.13.19-2-pve: 5.13.19-4...
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    Backup crashes VM - 'guest-fsfreeze-freeze' failed - got timeout

    Hello, The fsfreeze-freeze command works as expected when executed from CLI but crashes a VM when executed by the backup scheduler. Here's some useful info. Guest: Debian 11 Linux server.transud.ro 5.10.0-11-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux qemu-guest-agent...
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    [SOLVED] Best FS for Snapshots / Migration / Cloning

    Hey, What FS allows me to do snapshots + migrations + cloning? Please note that I'm trying to avoid Ceph. Thank you, Razvan
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    Cannot connect to serial0 / xterm.js

    Hey, I can't connect to serial0 via xterm.js and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Yes, serial0 is already added and video output is set. Can you please give me a hint? Here's /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf contents: agent: enabled=1,fstrim_cloned_disks=1 boot: c bootdisk: scsi0 cipassword...
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    [SOLVED] How to install samba-server on PBS?

    Hey, I'm trying to install samba on PBS but I'm getting this: root@ps-ms:~# apt install samba Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package samba is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package...
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    [SOLVED] How to totally destroy a Cluster, then re-create it

    Hello, I would like to totally destroy a Cluster, then re-create it without reinstalling each node. All nodes have running VMs. Can you please let me know how can I achieve this? Thank you, Razvan
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    [SOLVED] Can I use PMG to filter an entire shared-hosting (Plesk) server?

    Hello, I'm looking at ways to reduce incoming/outgoing Spam on my Plesk server and I was thinking to use Proxmox Mail Gateway for this. So here are some general questions: 1) Do I need to manually specify all domains that will be used on/by the Gateway? 2) Can I send/receive email via PMG? I...
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    [SOLVED] Shared NVMe storage OR local NVMe Ceph?

    Hello, I'm starting a new cluster and I would apreciate your opinion on this. Should I use a central storage server plus compute machines (similar with OpenStack) or should I use local NVMe and create a Ceph cluster? Obviously everything will be connected via 10 Gbps. My target is to create...
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    Can I backup/migrate a hibernating VM?

    Hello, I'm looking to move multiple VMs from a cluster to another. The two clusters are not linked, so I need to backup the VMs on the old cluster, copy the backups to the new cluster and then start them on the new cluster. Would it be possible to do this with the VMs being hibernated, not...
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    [SOLVED] Can I mix Promxox 6 and Proxmox 7 in the same Cluster?

    Hello, I'm adding new servers to my stack and I would like to use Proxmox 7 on all new hardware. Would it be possible to join the new Proxmox 7 servers on the current/existing Proxmox 6 cluster in order to migrate the VMs, then decommission all (unused) Proxmox 6 servers? Can Promox do...
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    [SOLVED] No network connectivity after Fresh Proxmox 7 install

    Hey, I'm doing a fresh install of Proxmox 7 via the official ISO. The installation finishes without any issues, server boots as expected, the NIC is listed, network settings are successfully applied. But unfortunately, even if everything seems to be fine, I have no network connectivity. I...
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    [SOLVED] Fresh install - "cannot import rpool: no such pool available"

    Hello, I'm doing a fresh install on 2x10TB drives. I've reinstalled the machine for three times, the result is the same: Here's a full recording of the boot process: https://www.screencast.com/t/cbjJIB4p5nkC Any hints are highly appreciated! Later edit. A temporary fix was to add...
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    [SOLVED] How to recover data from backup drive if OS drive is gone?

    Hello, Let's take an example. Supposing that I have a backup server that uses 1 SSD for the OS (Proxmox Backup) and 1 HDD where I'm storing the backups. Next, supposing that the SSD dies basically the backup server will not function any more but the backups will be present/untouched on the...

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