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    Netzwerk Konfiguration mit Ceph

    Hallo, wir setzen gerade einen neuen Proxmoxcluster auf. Hier suche ich nach einem guten Ansatz für das Netzwerk. Hardware: 5 x Dell Server (Proxmox) - mit je 7,68TB ssd für ceph - 2 x 1GB - 4 10GB - 2 100GB 1 x Dell Server (Backupserver)...
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    [SOLVED] OpenID authentication with Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure AD) Error Request failed (500)

    My goal is to setup authentication with Microsoft Entra ID for my organization. I am following the instructions on this older forum post https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/permissions-auth-openid-azure-ad-openid-redirect-failed-request-failed-500.108977/ I am also referencing the documentation...
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    [SOLVED] Can no more access the Web GUI

    Hello everyone, I ran into the problem that I cannot access the web GUI anymore, which is probably linked to one or both below events: I had to unplug and reconned all my internet ports on the switch and order is probably not the same anymore. But if I remember correctly everything still...
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    Proxmox Server with pfSense and other VMs wtih VLANs and OpenWRT Router

    I'm new to networking. I think I understand what I want though but not all the details and certainly not all the configuration on my OpenWRT Router, Proxmox nor pfSense. What I want is six VLANs: MainLAN: PFSense, Home Assistant, Frigate and Main Computer (Ethernet) HomeLAN: Main Wifi WorkLAN...
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    Help needed for switch traffic mirroring to Proxmox VM

    Hi, i have configured mirroring on a ubiquiti switch to mirror traffic towards the Proxmox server. I can see the traffic from the proxmox cli and now my main goal is to send this traffic towards a dedicated ubuntu vm on which i have installed suricata for network analysis, but i can't find...
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    How can I further increase latency of my VM?

    Memory: balloon=0 Processor: Numa=1 SCSI Controller: Virto SCSI Machine: Default(1440fx) Network: VirtIO What else can I do to increase my VM latency?
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    SDN problem "error vmbr100"

    I just created my first SDN on my (single) Proxmox Server. The goal was to have manage various networks connected as VLANs to the host in a future Cluster Setup. The VLAN already existed as a tagged Network on all Ports and has a working DHCP and DNS Server (physical Router). What I set up...
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    After applying todays updates OVMF bios version changed, forced some apps trigger software anti-copy protection

    Proxmox BIOS version changed forcing apps to unregister their license on server, forced some apps trigger software anti-copy protection. Is it possible to keep BIOS version pinned to VM config or avoid update bios version
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    Seagate tools (Seatools) bootable install

    Hello, my question is rearding installing seatools bootable in a vm and let it access/see HDD's. I have 2 zfs mirror pools where my vm's are installed, and one for the backups . i want to install seatools bootable but the problem is that it will only see the partition size i specify during the...
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    Missing .conf files from old installation

    Hello all, I've recently (as in 2 days ago) switched motherboards since my last one seems to have been destroying HDDs. I had a perfectly working Proxmox 7 installation with a desktop and everything. Now, that installation won't boot on my new motherboard (it gets stuck at "Loading initial...
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    pfSense VLAN Setup - Help!

    So i found this online: and wanted to replicate it in order to host my own webservers and stuff. so i spent a VERY long time setting up my pfSense VLANS and then spent very long time figuring out how to get console access to my procurve 2510g (i didnt know i had to press enter twice)...
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    Ceph SSD disk performance Kingston vs Samsung

    Hello, I have 3 servers later planning to add 3 nodes more. Lenovo sr570 CPU: 2x Xeon Silver 4208 2.1ghz 8c 16t OS: 2x sata 480gb m.2 ssd mirroring kit Network: 4x10GBase-T 2x lacp for frontend and cluster and 2x Lacp for ceph cluster and public every where will be individual Vlan. Switch: 2x...
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    Ldap authentication

    Hi, How to configure ldap certificate-based authentication? Could not found in doc. Some fields are different from proxmox ve ldap configuration. For example cert directive. Example from pve ldap: name base_dn dc=example,dc=com server1 ldap.google.com user_attr uid cert...
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    Hardware ID's Changing, Causing LXC's to have wrong passthrough configuration

    Hi All, I've noticed that every time I upgrade my kernel to the latest prod PVE version the ID's on my NVIDIA cards change. I have to alter the configuration file for the LXC's that use video cards manually every time after a ls /dev/nvidia* and ls /dev/dri* to match the changes. Is there a...
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    Configuring VM - single or multiple sockets?

    Hi, I was just wondering if there is any particular benefit in configuring a VM to use multiple sockets, e.g. 2 sockets, 5 cores, vs assigning it 1 socket, 10 cores? I'm running some benchmarks trying to squeeze as much performance as I can and it seems that 1 socket, 10 cores is a little more...
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    [SOLVED] proxmox-backup-client environment variables _FILE

    Hi I'm trying to use: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#environment-variables PBS_PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/proxmox/filename1 PBS_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/proxmox/filename2 Contents of filename1 would be "ActualPassword" (no quotes) But as soon as I run the client i get prompted...
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    Performance Testing

    Greetings my friends. I wish you a good ending of the week. I have this particular question on my mind it's been a while now. On my laptop, I run a Python code that takes about 30 seconds to compile and run. My objective is to run the same code on a cluster of 3 nodes and determine how much...
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    spindown HDDs, hdparm.conf settings are not applied when Proxmox reboot

    I've installed a new homelab server with Proxmox 8.0.4 that has a few SSDs and 4 HDDs(zfs raidz). As the HDDs are primarily used for backups and data that's sporadically accessed I want the HDDs to spindown after 10mins of idle. The settings I'm using in hdparm.conf are not applied when I...
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    deny NIC to VM

    Hi all, I'm entirely new to Proxmox VE and I am looking to see if it can help me to solve a problem. I want to set up a Proxmoxe VE cluster on three servers, each server has multiple NICs but we use 2: NIC1 is connected to WAN and NIC2 is connected to local LAN. LAN and WAN are not connected...
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    Proxmox 8 config files only read-only

    I'm facing the following issue on pve-manager/8.0.4/d258a813cfa6b390 (running kernel: 6.2.16-8-pve) that i can't edit files in /etc/pve due of permisson errors. root has only read-only rights on this config files. But i has to edit those files as root, due of issues with the otp auth...