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    How to properly delete a VM.

    Hello, I was wondering how to properly delete a VM and all of its data on the physical storage. The way that I currently do it is I go to more / remove, and check the 2 boxes within the dialogue, as seen in the picture. Does this delete all of the VM's data or keeps it on the physical disk...
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    One disk for host data - best practices.

    Please forgive me, as I'm a total beginner. I'm wondering best practices/feedback on using one disk as the storage for multiple VMs and CTs. Here's what I have right now: /dev/sdc is used for backups. /dev/sdd is used for security cam storage. Things get a bit funky with ZFS formatted disk...
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    Use old Proxmox disk as Storage for new installation

    Hi, I've reinstalled Proxmox VE 8.3 on a new SSD (250GB). Before this, I had Proxmox installed on a 1TB hard disk. This hard disk contained both the operating system and all the VM and container images. The previous installation was done via debian and the disk had an ext4 partition. Now I...
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    AULTING_MODULE: fffff80133220000 vioscsi

    I have a Windows Server that crash every view weeks Virtio Guest agent and driver was installed with 0.1.252 and now 0.1.262 (in this Log) on the memory dump, i got the following error: 9: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* *...
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    scsi disk inverted on Ubuntu 24.04 cloudinit image

    Hi, I'm using an ubuntu 24.04 cloud image from official repo. I do virt-customize actions and then push the setup by cli to proxmox to make a template. I need a disk for my system and another disk for my longhorn storage as this VM will be a kubernetes worker. - cloud init disk is scsi0 - my...
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    Get current disk size of LXC via API

    Hey everyone! I am trying to get the current disk size of a LXC with its rootfs on the local pool, ext4-based. Nothing tricky. This is on PVE 7.4. The command I am executing, from the node where the LXC is, is as follows: # pvesh get /nodes/proxmox6/lxc/109/config --output-format=json...
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    VM - Resize Disk - BUG?

    Hello everyone, I have a problem when resizing a disk of a VM Setup: 1 Proxmox (8.2.7) where only one vm is running (proxmox-backup-server) The VM has 3 disks mounted... disk-1 is the storage for the backup server (datastore) I have added more disk space via the gui because the datastore is...
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    Import Hyper-V VHDX, in RAW umwandeln und auf ZFS Pool legen

    Hallo Zusammen, ich stehe leider total auf dem Schlauch und finde im Moment nicht die Lösung. Ich möchte eine Hyper-V VM, also VHDX Disk in Proxmox importieren und einer VM zu ordnen. Jetzt habe ich gelesen, ich muss die VHDX per FTP hochladen, und umwandlen. Z.B. hier Migrating VM's from...
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    [SOLVED] Can't Open BlockDev(Need Help!)

    Im getting Can't open blockdev in my dmesg and journalctl in the proxmox HOST. its tmeta and tdata dms that shows this. Both for my truenasISCSI lvm-thin and the local-lvm thin. why is this happening, how do i fix? I have normal access to both storages, everything works normally at higher...
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    Storage drive bricked!? Unable to mount a full disk

    I cannot mount my physical storage disk which had previously been mounted. As soon as I run the mount command in Ubuntu terminal, my VM freezes and Proxmox shows "IO error". The drive is 100% full so it's not really surprising (not sure how that happened as I'd just made 200gb worth of free...
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    Problem resizing Ubuntu disk

    I am trying to increase the size of the hard disk of my Lubuntu 20.04 VM (on Proxmox 8.2.5). I used the resize option in the PVE UI, then started the VM and used cfdisk to resize the disk to use the newly-created free space (increasing from 122GB to 202GB). cfdisk now shows the partition as the...
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    [TUTORIAL] How to Make Fstrim Run More Often in LXC Containers and Linux VMs + the Host (for GRUB and Systemd Proxmox VE Installations)

    This is a tutorial on how to make fstrim run more often or on days that you wish. This could be handy if you have stuff continuously writing to the drives which then later gets deleted, which would cause it to create a large amount of unused data. For example, I have a Minecraft server running...
  13. powersupport

    Unable to delete a snapshot

    We have server with the id 112 and snapshot named "BeforeDiskUpgrade", when I try to delete the snapshot getting the error as "rbd error: rbd: error opening image vm-112-state-BeforeDiskUpgrade: (2) No such file or directory", I tried to check from the snapshot from pool but it doesn't exist...
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    MegaRAID JBOD disks not recognized by proxmox

    I have a Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 to which are 7 disk connected. All of them are configured in BIOS to be in JBOD mode, so that the operating system could see them as raw disks. The problem is, that the disk are only visible via lsblk on OpenSuse. I tested proxmox and ubuntu and, both...
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    I am having problems deleting partitions in Proxmox

    I have an 8TB SSD that shows 4 Harddrive partitions inside the SSD. I have used Fdisk, but the disk is not mounted and I cannot use Parted. I connected the SSD to a Windows PC and deleted the partition, but it still shows in Proxmox. Can someone explain to me what's going on?
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    Disk exceeding boot size?

    Hi I got a guest VM that runs an NFS server. I have given it a 750 GB boot disk, but when I check the disk size in local-lvm it says the VM disk size is 805 GB. In the guest OS, the VM still has ~45 GB of free space. So why is the VM disk so big on the local-lvm? My issue right now is that...
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    Disk usage 100% full

    Hello, As many post before me, my VM crash because my disk is full. It's a 1To disk used for docker (images) and personnal files. I have a difference of space between inside my VM and command from PVE. Inside VM Disk sdd1 seems to be 20% used. Outside VM on Proxmox Disk mounted...
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    Cannot configure Proxmox node via web UI

    Hi guys, I have a cluster of 4 nodes. But today I cannot configure 1 of my nodes via web UI (connection error - Timeout), the rest still OK. I can still ssh to it, but it does not show normal shell (root@Node), it shows -bash-5.1# and I can not use almost tools (apt, whoami, ...). The lsblk...
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    Best practice für pools

    Hallo zusammen, werde meinen server komplett neu aufsetzen. Folgende Anwendungsfälle habe ich bisher angedacht: Proxmox auf 2 x 240gb SSD (ZRAID1) VM Container auf 2 x TB SSD: Hier nen LVN Thin benutzen? Möchte auch Snapshots für LXC container machen können. Spezielle Daten, auf die möglichst...
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    Extending LVM on VM

    Hi there, I would like to extend xxx-root LVM, that is mounted on /. I had extended the physical volume using the PVE UI, so the sda shows size of 450GB, so there is 200GB available, which I want to allocate to sda2 and then use to extend the xxx-root to use all of the available free space...

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