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    Howto setup a spare node for PVE Cluster HA

    Hi, We have a 5 node cluster and we are planning to buy a 6th server as a spare server and enable HA. How does PVE decide on which node to start the VMs when a working member fails? Is it depending on free resources? Or on number of VMs? I mean, whats the "formula"? :) Also, If I want all...
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    LVM on iSCSI problems: metadata too large for circular buffer

    Hi everybody, I'm having the LVM metadata space problem: TASK ERROR: clone failed: lvcreate 'vzpve4/pve-vm-4000' error: VG vzpve4 metadata too large for circular buffer We actually have 3 QNAP NAS connected (iSCSI + LVM) to our Proxmox VE 3.1 Cluster. All have "free space" for metadata...
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    Migrating from v1.9 to v3.1

    Hi, I have a 4 node cluster running PVE 1.9. All OK. We have recently purchased our 5th node, but we are going to setup a new cluster running v3.1 for the enterprise repo access. The process is: 1- Install v3.1 on new node. 2- Backup all VMs on node4 from v1.9 cluster. 3- Restore all those...
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    Device or resource busy using LVM Snapshots

    Hi, Im trying out the snapshot feature: proxmox:/storage# vzdump --dumpdir . --snapshot 111 INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump --dumpdir . --snapshot 111 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 111 (qemu) INFO: running INFO: status = running INFO: backup mode: snapshot INFO: ionice priority: 7 INFO...
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    Snapshots of VMs with multiple hard disks without suspending.

    Hi, I'm planning to create a backup job to take daily snapshots of all VMs (we have KVM only). Most of our VMs have 2 hard disks. I've read: http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/2728-snapshot-mode-goes-to-suspend Is there no way to take snapshots of VMs with >1 hard disk without suspending...
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    Storage Model with Proxmox 2. iSCSI + LVM vs NFS

    Hi everybody, I'm planning to migrate to Proxmox v2. Right now we have a QNAP with RAID6 (8TB) shared over iSCSI + LVM to the Proxmox nodes. (1 master + 3 nodes, aprox 150VMs total) iSCSI + LVM gives me the ability to do live snapshots, but I've never used them. If I change to NFS, the QNAP...
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    Proxmox GUI showing 0KB as disk size for VMs.

    Hi, Does anyone know why some VMs show 0KB in disk size? (GUI) I have LVM storage over iSCSI. I've had this issue some other time and restarting pvedaemon (/etc/init.d/pvedaemon restart) did the trick, but this time It still shows 0KB. If I click on the hardware tab I can see perfectly well...

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