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    Can't add external hdd drive to TrueNAS Scale VM

    Hi All, I am new to Proxmox and need some help with how to attach or add all my usb external storage, in my case I use "ORICO-3559C3" with 5-bays HDD drive. My goal is to provide ZFS storage to the VMs in Proxmox (with TrueNAS-Scale), I have VM 100 with TrueNAS Scale 22.12 on My Baremetal...
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    How setup the size of local directory (pve-root) to have more than 100G

    Can I set the size of the local directory (pve-root) during the installation process? I want more than 100G to run all my VM
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    How to make a best use of an SSD drive in VMs?

    On my proxmox machine I got two SSD drives natively connected to it. First disk is for proxmox OS, the other I want to use in VMs. Basically, I want to use half of this second SSD drive in one VM, and other half in another, preferably with auto-adjusting sizes (in case one VM needs more than a...
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    [SOLVED] VM multiple disks: actual vm usage vs. proxmox usage

    Hi there, I am pretty new to proxmox and just finished setting up a Windows Server 2022 VM. It is running smoothly but I am noticing some behaviour that I can not explain: I have two ZFS pools, one ~1TB(Pool1 [local-zfs]) another one ~2TB(Pool2 [rpool_data], created on the Webinterface after...
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    Recommended SSDs/M.2s for a non critical mini server system

    Hello guys! After I discovered the option to migrate my HA from RPI to VM via Proxmox I was very happy and impatient to do it. So, I bought a recommended mini PC (Dell Optiplex 3050 -i7-6700T with 8GB RAM & 256 GB SSD) and I’m looking now to improve this hardware configuration in order to...
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    Proxmox Backup Server full

    Hi, I've been recreating a bug in PBS. When it gets full, I need to manually delete chunks and erase datastore in order to free space, because when I delete some backups no space seems to be released. Garbage collection won't help either. I'm now testing with SDA and SDB instead of RAID 0, same...
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    Add disk to rpool ZFS

    Good morning, I want 2 new disk to my raid 1 ZFS rpool, do you know the procedure ? Best regards, Joseph
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    Proxmox Storage issues

    Hello Forum! Happy to be here and a new proxmox user. To get right into it, I messed up. Current config is a 4 disk RAID 5 array managed by a RAID card on the server in a Raid5 configuration, for a total of 6TB of storage (2TB x 4disks = 8TB - 2TB loss from Raid5) Essentially I did not...
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    Low disk subsystem performance

    I've got four HP DL360 G9 servers, which I intend to use in a hyper-converged cluster setup with CEPH. All of them are of the same hardware configuration: two sockets with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 processors @ 2.20GHz (88 cores per server in total), 768GiB of registered DDR4 RAM...
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    [SOLVED] proxmox disk partition, no space left on device

    Hello! when i try to run apt update on my proxmox 7.2 server, i'm getting a list of errors and warnings because the / directory is full and it's saying that there's no space left on the device. and i don't have a disk partition for LVM storage so i'm not able to add ISO files anymore, what can...
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    [TUTORIAL] Proxmox VE 7.2 Benchmark: aio native, io_uring, and iothreads

    Hey everyone, a common question in the forum and to us is which settings are best for storage performance. We took a comprehensive look at performance on PVE 7.2 (kernel=5.15.53-1-pve) with aio=native, aio=io_uring, and iothreads over several weeks of benchmarking on an AMD EPYC system with 100G...
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    Problems following proxmox documentation about ZFS benchmarking

    Hello everybody, I want to benchmark my ZFS pools in a server that it's already running with data (mostly testing, but I don't want to lose it). For that purpose I have found =278bafe4f7648fa8072a76aebfd271e2']this, a ZFS benchmark done by proxmox team. So it looks like a great fit. They are...
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    Ceph disk planning OSD journal

    I have 3 node (planning 3-node pve cluster with ceph) 2x12c/128Gb ram/2x240Gb ssd sata/6x1.2TB sas 10k/HBA mode raid controller HPE/2x10G eth/4x1G eth and nfs-storage node 2x12c/64Gb ram/2x240gb ssd sata/10x6TB SATA 7200 Enterprise/HBA mode raid controller HPE/2x10G eth/4x1G eth I plan deploy...
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    Backups in Proxmox7 - Slow restore & High IO on SSD

    Hi everyone, Recently I made a clean install on my server, and I am trying to restore the VM Backups for a few days. I cannot seem to find the reason why backups are this slow... /dev/sdc with ext4 is the consumer HDD where backups are stored and /dev/sdb is the consumer SSD with Thin LVM where...
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    problem in proxmox disk paritions

    Good morning, i laundhed a proxmoxVE 7 server from a cloud provider with 2TB of storage when the installlation finishes and i open the dashboard, i see that my proxmox is using only a partition of 50Gb as mentioned in the picture bellow and the other portion of the disk is empty and not used...
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    Cannot reach GUI and Shrink Volume

    Hello. I have 2 issues: 1 - cannot reach de Gui page. but can ping the proxmox ve server, and the VM's. I've restarted it already. (a fews days ago I've working well with GUI page). 2 - No free Space on pve-root. (i think the problems are both engaged). Filesystem Size Used Avail...
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    High IO usage on every VM but low IO delay.

    Hi, I'm facing high io usage on every VM but low io delay. In proxmox gui it shows every VMs are using very high io but I have checked disk io usage inside the VM. Inside VM it doesn't use that much and i have tested the performance everything is normal. Anyone knows what is happening? Does the...
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    Not understanding disks and storage types...

    Hey all, new to Proxmox, just wanting to make sure I'm setting up my drive the "right" way... I'm sure this is easier than I'm making it out to be, but I'm stuck :/ I have a second disk in my server that i want to use for all my VMs/containers/ISOs, etc... basically everything but the...
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    Disk suddenly showing empty but cannot be used

    Recently the primary non-os disk for my proxmox install is showing as 100% free despite also showing it contains several hundred GB of data on it. Any VM that attempts to boot that was on that disk is unable to boot. And attempting to create a new VM using that disk also fails. I'm suspecting a...
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    best way using hybrid disk?

    hello, my existing vm using virtual disk (qcow2) and I want using Passthrough Physical Disk to Virtual Machine (VM) and I have get that info from your wiki my question, it is possible run passtrough with existing vm? what best way to using hybrid disk?

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