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    how to check the connection speed for virtio_nic in Linux VM

    Hi, I have installed a Linux VM with virtio virtual nic. To check the network connection speed I have used ethtool, but the speed it is showing as unknown. When I change the interface model to E1000, the speed it is showing as 1000Mbps. How do I check the network speed in Linux guest OS for...
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    How to check exact CPU utilization of a VM

    Hi All, Where can I check the accurate CPU & RAM utilization of VM? The values which are seeming on web GUI are not the same as in Taskmanager (Windows) / top or atop (Linux). 1. The % of CPU utilization in VM > Summary > Status is keep on varying to various values. Some times it is quickly...
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    ZFS dedup is not deduplicating the vm images

    Hi All, Please, can anyone help me out to set up ZFS dedup for my qemu VM images? I am testing ZFS deduplication in PvE 6.0, I have a ZFS pool with a single (Raid0) 240GB SSD and mounted it as ZFS storage in web GUI. I have installed a windows VM on this ZFS storage with a size of 30GB. When...
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    VM VNC console error code 1

    Hi, I am getting the error '/bin/nc -l -p 5900 -w 10 -c '/usr/sbin/qm vncproxy 100 2>/dev/null'' failed: exit code 1 when i tried to open a vm with VNC console. I tried to check in forum few users were posted same error. But i couldn't find any solution to fix this error. Please let me know...
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    scheduled backups of HA VMs

    Hi, We need to configure automatic scheduled backups of HA enabled VMs in our 3-Node cluster. We are running few DB & App VMs on nodes. What is the best recommended method to achieve. Which mode (Stop, Suspend or Snapshot) will be the easiest way. Thanks
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    Directory on top of DRBD

    Hi, Is it possible to mount drbd logical disks as directory type storage in 2-node cluster PVE 3.4 (As shared storage). We trying to setup 2-node cluster with DRBD as shared storage. LVM wouldn't support snapshots, so we are trying to understand is there any alternate way. And also we need...
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    is ext4 file system thin or thick ?

    We are using PVE 3.4 and have connected 8 TB disk. Since ext3 fs limited to 2 TB , we had formatted it with ext4 fs & mounted as directory type storage. When we try to take backup of 600 GB size VM, we are getting same size of backup file. So we want to understand whether the ext4 fs is thin...
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    PVE5.2 HA Config.

    We are testing PVE5.2 HA feature in LAB setup. Can anyone had successfully setup this ? Earlier we were using PVE3.4 with SNMP fencing, but for PVE5.2 we understand that external fencing will not support. So we are trying to test with hardware watchdog. I couldn't find any clear documents to...
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    /etc/pve not mounted

    Hi, In one PVE 3.4 node the pve folder is not mounted. We can't able to access the web gui. Tried to start the Pve-cluster service but it is failed. How to mount the /etc/pve folder and how to get the GUI access. We can able to SSH to the node.
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    2nd local disk available space is zero

    Hi, In one of my 4-node cluster, the node is having 2nd local disk (4TB directory type). It is showing available space as zero. But when I check in my 2 windows VMs the both the VMs still having 1.5TB of free space. Please help me how can fix this issue. Thanks in advance.
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    PVE cluster or Ceph cluster fencing with SNMP Switch

    Hi, I am using 3-node cluster with Ceph and i want to configure Fence device using some cisco switch with SNMP protocol. Cluster network Setup :- PVE1 - eth0 - Vmbr0 - 192.168.0.1 For Ceph eth1 - 172.16.1.1 PVE1 - eth0 - Vmbr0 - 192.168.0.2 For Ceph eth1 - 172.16.1.2 PVE1 - eth0 - Vmbr0 -...
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    No VM names is showing up and node is in red colour

    Hi , I am running proxmox 3.4 with 4 VMs on it. 2 Days back suddenly i couldn't able to login to WEB gui, i have restarted the services pveproxy, pvestatd, pvedaemon etc but no luck. After rebooting the host i can able to login to web gui of proxmox. From today morning my node changed to red...
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    Win2003 VM getting shut down automatically

    Hi Team, I am running a Windows 2003 server vm on proxmox 3.4 version, The vm is getting shutdown unexpectedly. I have found that the PCI device(other device) drivers are missing and showing yellow icon in Device manager. VM config:- IDE with .raw image, Intel E1000 nic, and find the attached...
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    qcow2 image with >2TB ???

    Hi Guys, Need help, Can't able to add more than 2TB (>2TB) size disk to VM in qcow2 format on WEB GUI. I am having 4TB disk, connected has Directory model to proxmox host, need to add single 3TB partition to windows VM in qcow2 format. Since i have experienced worst performance with vmdk...
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    pveversion -v error

    Hi, i am getting the following error, when i use pveverson -v. Need help
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    Rejoin failed node to the cluster

    Hi Guys, I am using 2 cluster setups as follows, 1. Cluster with 3 Nodes, CEPH storage, SNMP fencing to enable HA for critical VMs. 2. Cluster with 3 Nodes with CEPH shared storage and without SNMP fencing, HA VMs. pls anyone can help me to join the failed node without reinstalling the PVE in...
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    proxmox installation on lsi raid controller

    hi team, i installed proxmox 3.4 on raid 0 ssd disk. For raid configuration i used lsi megaraid sas 9240-8i controller. After successful installation it is not booting. it is showing error "udevd(389): timeout:killing /sbin/modprobe -b pci:xxxxxxxxx (831)". Can any please tell me how to fix...
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    Checking the Local Storage, Root, Swap status

    Hi team, i am new to proxmox , currently i am using proxmox 3.3 version. proxmox installed on /dev/sda (ssd-120gb) and it has 2nd disk /dev/sdb(hdd-1tb). i am using 2nd disk as lvm storage to store VM images. Now my queries are 1.How to check the storage status (free,usage) of ssd, is there...
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    image files in 2nd disk

    Hi, i am new to proxmox please anyone tell me how to see the vm image file on 2nd disk(hdd) i am installed pmx on ssd-1st disk. and i want to upload .vmdk file into 2nd disk(hdd) to replace the original KVM image. How to see/replace the image file of vm which is stored in second hdd.How to...
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    proxmox 3.1

    Hi, my MB was not booting after pmx 3.3 installation, due to some uefi and legacy problem. i searched and i found a way to solve my problem i.e, first install 3.1 and upgrade to 3.3. so now i want to install pmx 3.1 but i could not found any link to download 3.1 iso. can anyone please send...

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