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    [SOLVED] Reformat Linux Filesystem Disk

    I have a 4TB hard drive plugged inside of my PVE host. The hard drive has data on it so I do need to reformat it clean first. End goal is to create a volume that I can pass through to a Windows VM on this PVE host to store media. Looking for documentation has been difficult because there are so...
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    Restore VMs from backup on new install

    Due to an LVM issue that was blowing my mind on how to fix, I reinstalled PVE 6.3.2 on my home server. Prior to this, I kept VM backups to a separate drive. How do I properly mount this disk again and restore the VMs? Edit: I think I found my solution...
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    VM Ram Usage

    Trying to understand why this Windows VM says it is consuming nearly 9GB of RAM on my Proxmox host when the guest OS is only using around 3GB. What am I actually being shown here? https://imgur.com/a/1Bsx4Mg
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    SSH into VMs through OpenVPN tunnel

    I am trying to connect from my iPhone via Termius to my Linux VMs and via Microsoft RDP to my Windows VMs. My home network DHCP server is a Netgear R6700 router. I connect to it via OpenVPN on my iPhone while using public WiFi or 4G data. I know I am 100% on the network as I can actually open up...
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    QMrestore confusion

    Just looking for a bit of knowledge confirmation. I've been using vzdump to take nightly snapshot backups of my VMs. My only question here is that it seems like you cannot restore a snapshot backup to an already existing VM ID. You have to use qmrestore and give a new VM ID to be created. From...
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    Why did my vzdump fail to a broken pipe?

    Here is the log from my Proxmox node: vzdump 100 102 --mailto root --mode snapshot --quiet 1 --compress lzo --mailnotification always --storage vm-backups 100: 2019-06-14 01:00:01 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 100 (qemu) 100: 2019-06-14 01:00:01 INFO: status = running 100: 2019-06-14 01:00:02...
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    Cant ping Windows VM but has internet connection

    On my Proxmox node, I have a Windows VM set with a static IP in the OS and on my router. The VM has internet connectivity. The network interface is set to bridged under the hardware settings of the VM in Proxmox. I have another Windows VM with the same exact setup as this VM and that one can be...
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    Single Node Backup and Monitoring Suggestions

    Hi guys, now that I'm comfortable with my VM setup, I want to explore monitoring solutions that will alert me via email/text on critical events such as a hard disk failing SMART tests, unexpected reboots/shutdowns on any VM or the Proxmox node itself, etc. Also, I want to buy an 8TB external and...
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    [SOLVED] Remove OTP Authentication via SSH

    I tried following the last section here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OATH(TOTP)_Authentication#Disabling_OATH_2FA_authentication Unfortunately, the /etc/pve/domains.cfg file does NOT even exist on my server. How can I disable this via SSH? I lost my phone that had the Google Authenticator app...

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