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    How do I get sparse VM disks with NFS?

    Managed to solve this due to a helpful answer on Reddit: Had top open Storage settings, double click the NFS hosting VM disks and change Pre-allocation from Default to Off. Now migrating a pre-existing VM disk to RAW and back to QCOW2 resulted in a 28gb of space use on NFS instead of 128GB and...
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    How do I get sparse VM disks with NFS?

    I've recently finished migrating my VMs from an old Proxmox 6 host to a new one running fully updated Proxmox 7. I got myself a NAS serving NFS that I used to create the backups with the idea to later also use it for some VM disks that do not require high responsiveness of local nvme drives. I...
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    How to get trim/UNMAP working in this Proxmox setup?

    Figured it out and finally got it to work the way I wanted. Destroyed everything iscsi-related first, including the virtual disks on the VM running the targets. Created new nvme-backed and sata-backed virtual disks, made sure discard=on and ssd=1 for both in disk settings on Proxmox. Created...
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    How to get trim/UNMAP working in this Proxmox setup?

    I have a Proxmox 6 host that has a ZFS mirror consisting of 2 NVME drives and 4 spinners in a "raid10-like" ZFS configuration (a stripe of 2 mirrors) It has 1 Linux server VM acting as an iSCSI target. The VM has an OS drive, a datadrive thats on the NVME pool and a datadrive thats on the...
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    Upgrading 6.4 to 7.x, switching to proxmox-boot-tool

    Am I understanding it correctly that proxmox-boot-tool is essentially the Proxmox alternative to Ubuntu's usage of separate "bpool" and "rpool" created by the official installer, with Ubuntu bpool being locked to GRUB-compatible features and blocked from having it's version upgraded?
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    Upgrading 6.4 to 7.x, switching to proxmox-boot-tool

    Huh, this is weird. I was certain the host was originally installed on a 2x2tb mirror, but a deep dive confirmed that it's the 3tb drives holding the GRUB boot partitions sda1 and sdb1.
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    Upgrading 6.4 to 7.x, switching to proxmox-boot-tool

    Looking at the Troubleshooting part of https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0 before doing the upgrade, as having an older BIOS-based install on ZFS, I understand I need to https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS:_Switch_Legacy-Boot_to_Proxmox_Boot_Tool first. However: NAME...
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    moved a disk and baffled by reported disk use now

    So I just took 2 NVME SSDs and via the Proxmox UI I made them into a ZFS mirror and added to available storage. I then migrated one of my VM disks to the new pool and am now baffled by the result: https://pastebin.com/JuKbEzdP Why is "used" for the exact same disk 30.3G on the original pool and...
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    Proxmox 5.4: host crashes during heavy writes in a VM

    Hello I am running Proxmox 5.4 on a Dell T110 ii with 32gb of ram and 4 SATA drives in a ZFS raid10-like configuration. I am experiencing host crashes/reboots when a VM is under heavy write load such as running CrystalDiskMark benchmark inside a Windows Server 2019 VM. At first, I thought this...