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And may also affect how live migration works as well.

Thanks mira. It'd be great if this can be implemented as requiring a cluster setup would be an overkill if one simply wants to live migrate VMs between standalone hosts with local storage, or from one cluster to another cluster.

Just being curious, is there any update with this feature?

I used to have the same question for quite a long time and always assumed it came down to personal preference and the system environment (OS, hardware,etc). After doing some research, as well as confirming with the official support of one of the most poplar virtualization platforms on the...

According to https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_LVM_Thin , thin LVM cannot be shared, so I guess you would have to treat the iSCSI volume as local storage.

Hi guys, I've come across some cases where people simply expose LVM across multiple hosts via iSCSI without some form of proper clustering like CLVM or HA-LVM. I was wondering how reliable this would be? We've actually dealt with a paid-for cloud management platform before that sets up LVM as...

What if you try the conversion on other distros with generic KVM/qemu? If you wish to try it on CentOS 7, I recommend installing qemu-kvm-ev, which comes up a much more up-to-date version of qemu.

Hi, Not sure if it's related. If 'disk1.vmdk' is a vmdk descriptor file, can you open up the file and see if vmdk version is set to either 1 or 2 instead of 3? If it's version 3, then it doesn't seem to be supported by the qemu 2.12 (not sure about 3.1) yet, so you may have to change the...

Given a lot of people have been looking forward to achieving live differential/incremental backup for KVM, I'd just like to share some of my fancy ideas here as we're all in the same boat. File-level backup is simply not scalable for us. Due to the fact that there are so many different...

Sounds like refurb Dell Optiplex 9010 with Intel AMT could be a cheaper option for you ;), but how to fit them into a 2U rack shelf would be another question. I think the OP intends to do something like hyper-converged infrastructure in Windows 2016/2019 (Hyper-V + S2D without traditional...

It turns vmdk descriptor file version 3 doesn't play well with qemu, but version 1 and 2 are fine. Although Proxmox can still in-place mount a vmdk descriptor file as v3, live-conversion wouldn't work, and the actual disk size of the flat vmdk file will be incorrectly detected. As per...

Hi mailinglists, Thanks for sharing. The only limitation I've occurred so far with specifying '--targetstorage' is summarised in the following: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070

I've just tested a live conversion on Proxmox 5.3-11 but now it just fails, but in-placing mounting a vmdk descriptor file along with the flat vmdk file still remains fine. More testing is still in progress.

Hi Kai, Assuming you have vCenter with Storage vMotion support, and the VM (let's call it testvm1) to be converted runs Linux. !!! ALWAYS DO A FULL BACKUP OF EVERYTHING FIRST !!! Disclaimer: All information here is provided on an as-is basis. Use it at your own discretion! My steps are: Set...

Not sure if all variants of Dell H310 can be flashed to IT mode though. I don't think it's possible if the H310 is an integrated one instead of a typical PCI-E card.

It's true one can make one standalone drive RAID0, but the drive will still contain the RAID metadata, so it's still treated as hardware RAID (but crippled) instead of true IT/passthrough mode. This means getting drive SMART stats is relatively less straight-forward than a drive attached to an...

Hi all, Is it possible to do live migration from one standalone Proxmox host with local storage to another one without joining both to a cluster if the destination host has the same or higher minor version? I know this is possible on generic CentOS 7 with qemu-kvm-ev, but it seems Proxmox...

Thanks for sharing your experience. Maybe it's time to implement '--with-local-disks' feature in GUI given it's just a flag. I guess I'll respond to https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979 and see if this can be introduced.

If the OP simply wants to try out running VMs on CephFS in a test environment, I guess maybe try manually mounting CephFS outside of Proxmox's management on your hypervisors and then make Proxmox treat the mount point as a local directory. I haven't got enough hands-on experience in relation to...

Was this output from the source or destination host?