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    Regelmässig SMART fehler (FailedReadSmartData)

    Bekomme seit ein paar Tagen jede Nacht folgenden SMART fehler vom PVE: Manchmal ist es /dev/sda, manchmal ist es auch /dev/sdc. Hier mal der system log: Schätze ehr nicht dass es an den Festplatten liegt
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    disk setup confusion (where is the actual proxmox install located?)

    Hi. I have been using proxmox for a while now, but I still get confused when setting up my storage. Scenario A: I am currently setting up a homeserver for a friend who wants to experiment in a homelab. Available storage options: 500gb pcie nvme 1 TB SATA SSD 4 TB HDD This setup is for home...
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    I have problem with backup and disk or Kernel

    Hello everyone, I’m experiencing issues when running backups on Proxmox. Every time I attempt a backup, the machine returns the errors shown in the screenshot. I suspect the problem might be related to the disk, but I also have doubts that it could be caused by the Kernel. Has anyone...
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    Creating volumes for a VM

    I have installed Proxmox VE and made a virtual machine with Debian 12 on it. There I installed nextcloud and gitea but I have second thoughts on my drive configuration. What I did: 1. Created ZFS pool in proxmox on dedicated SSD. 2. Created and attached disk in this pool. 3. Inside debian VM...
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    Accidentally Added Extra Disk Space to Proxmox VM, Need to Reduce It (LVM Setup)

    Hi Everyone, I'm new to Proxmox and recently ran into an issue with disk management. Here's the situation: I created an Ubuntu 24 server VM with an initial disk size of 150 GB. Later, I realized I needed to add an additional 25 GB, but I accidentally extended the disk by 175 GB, bringing the...
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    [SOLVED] Can not import virtual disk

    Hello, I have a problem with importing and converting a .vhdx virtual disk to proxmox object storage. Informations about VM and disk: Old virtualization platform: MS HyperV VM OS: Windows server 2012 R2 vhdx size 204 GB, size of virtual disk connected to windows (via disk manager) 1,8T. I did...
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    How to know whether a disk format is supported or not?

    I was trying to import a VMDK disk into my Proxmox (8.3) cluster using qm disk import --format vmdk and then i got the following error: format 'vmdk' is not supported by the target storage - using 'raw' instead How do I know which disk formats does my target storage supports? And how to make it...
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    External USB disks go to sleep and never wake up again

    I connected 2 external USB drives (1 HDD and 1 SSD NVMe) and both go to sleep and then they never wake up again. This happen even if I'm copying files from the internal disk to them resulting in a failed copy. I'd like to wake up them when necessary. Any hints?
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    SeaBIOS fails to boot with Display=None, and OVMF fails to read data from VirtiO disks?

    I have a VM using GPU passthrough - and it works fine. I can see the GPU inside the VM and interact with it generally. In an effort to use this GPU as my primary display, I need to _disable_ the implicit video device that Proxmox firmware supplies to the VM, so I changed `Hardware` > `Display` =...
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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...