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    Need help with configuring drives for redundancy

    I have an old AMD Phenom x6 PC and figured I'd tinker around with it. My disks are as follows 3x1 TB (currently in zraid) 1x2TB 1x8TB ( newly acquired and shucked from a WD black) I don't need more than 5-6TB of storage atm. I'm thinking there is a way to mirror the 3 1TBs and the 2TB on the...
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    Need HELP adding new hard drive

    Hi, I bought a new 240GB SSD disk and I would like to add it to my Proxmox box, as it is slowly but surely running out of space. I insert the disk and I rebooted the server, but lsblk doesn't detect it. I tried to follow this guide...
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    replace zfs (boot) disk in uefi environment pve 6.1

    I am pretty new to proxmox but very impressed by it's possibilities. Having setup a PVE 6.1 environment (3 x 2TB sata, AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core CPU, 64GB memory) which is running some limited production as test without any problems. One of the 3 disks (sda) is giving errors so i want to...
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    Open files issue on PVE node

    Hi, we experienced an issue with VM's running in Proxmox 6.x where one or more disks from the VM perspective reported 100% busy, but no data was read or written according to iostat. Our storage backend is an external CEPH nautilus cluster. This seemed to happen if the VM had many...
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    Löschung volume mount Disk bei LXC Container bei pct destroy <id> über Konsole

    Es wäre praktisch eine Abfrage zu implementieren, bevor einem die gesamte 2. angehängte Disk (als mount point wohl gemerkt) unterm Hintern weg gelöscht wird, oder diese schlicht zu ignorieren, wie bei anderen mounts. In meinem Fall war diese als "volume mount point mpX" angehängt und wurde...
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    ZFS: Should I use /dev/myzdev or /dev/zvol/myzdev ?

    When listing their contents, both will list every disk I have stored there, and they will both update on each change. Is there a difference between them ? When exporting a disk, is there one of them I should prefer ? (--> I do manual backups as VMDK because of multi-hypervisor environment, so...
  7. William Edwards

    File system in VM

    I am trying to decide between using XFS or EXT4 inside KVM VMs. My goal is not to over-optimise in an early stage, but I want to make an informed file system decision and stick with that. Situation: Ceph as backend storage SSD storage Writeback cache on VM disk No LVM inside VM CloudLinux 7...
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    Clone drive from a VM to another

    hello everybody! looking for help as i was not able to find an answer by myself as i'm pretty sure this had to be aske once :-/ I have a VM (ID 100) running some container on stored on a RAW drive (disk1) I've setup a new VM (ID101)with the major update released and wanted to try docker on...
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    USED STORAGE : 99%

    so I just found out that I'm pretty much out of space on my File-server. (as shown in the attached snapshots) is there any way to extend that File server's storage ? ps : Zfs-loacl seems to have some decent amount of Gigs , is possible to use that ? pls Help Thanks all !
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    PCIE的SSD无法识别,The SSD of PCIE is not recognized

    我添加了一块PCIE的SSD,Fusion-IO SX350,官方的驱动支持Ubuntu和Debian系统,我安装了驱动,但是在PVE内无法识别,找不到这块新添加的硬盘,硬件本身是没有坏的,是PVE本身就不支持PCIE的硬盘吗?还是需要安装什么驱动? I added a piece of PCIE SSD, fusion-io SX350, the official driver supports Ubuntu and Debian systems, I installed the driver, but the PVE can not identify, can not find...
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    [SOLVED] .qcow2-Datei deutlich größer als virtuelle Platte

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe folgendes Problem: Für einen Gameserver hängt an meinem Server eine extra SSD mit 229 GB nutzbarem Speicher. Es liegt nur die Platte des Gameservers drauf. In Proxmox habe ich sie 65 GB groß gemacht. Aktuell sind 2 Snapshots davon vorhanden, aber auch ohne habe ich das...
  12. Proxygen

    [SOLVED] ZFS: Partition X does not start on physical sector boundary

    fdisk -l How do I identify which guest is using /dev/zd32 (I already have a suspect) ? And should I readjust the start sector? If yes, how? TIA
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    resizing proxmox disk to make it smaller.

    Is it possible to resize a proxmox disk to make it smaller? I only see the option to increase the size. It is a windows installation.
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    No Disk Unsed

    Hi I have installed a new proxmox server and when i try to create a ZFS or LVM it says "No Disk Unused" in devices list. These information are shown in my disk details from Proxmox web gui Enabled: Yes Active: Yes Content : Disk image, ISO image, Container, Snippets, Container template Type...
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    Ext4 hard disks won't sleep (constant reads)

    I have a plex LXC which has some EXT4 hard disks bind-mounted to it. This means they are mounted on the host. Devices are /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. They aren't accessed by any other VM. None of them will stay parked. I have manually parked them with hdparm -y but they wake up...
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    hard disks not detected during installation

    I have an hp proliant DL360p Gen8 smart array P420i RAID Controller. Proxmox detects the logicals disks (raid 1 (2x146Go) and raid5 (3x300Go) .But I would like to use ZFS (which is incompatible with the physical Raid). When I delete the logical disks, the hard drives are no longer detected by...
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    Partition Management

    Hello, The VMs so slow , I concluded that this slowness because of the use of a single disk for all functions (ISO, disk image ....), but I did not understand how I can manage my available disk to have good management i have 4 disks : device mapper ??? help pls ?
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    Proxmox shoxs wrong usage - Can't add disk to new LVM

    Hi all. POsting question here since I haven't found any post or page answering to my problem. I'm still figuring things out with Proxmox, and have been messing around (probably a tad too recklessly) with my storage options. I created an LVM with one of my HDDs (/dev/sdd in my case), but...
  19. M

    Improve VM guest disk performance (Ceph, 10 GBE, Qemu, Virtio)

    Hello @all, we are running a Proxmox cluster with five nodes. Three of them are used for ceph, providing 2 pools, one with hdd, the other one with ssd. The two other nodes are used for virtualization with qemu. We have redundant 10 GBE storage networks and we have redundant 10 GBE ceph networks...
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    Komisches Verhalten beim Migrieren

    Hallo, Wir haben einen neuen Proxmox Server da die anderen 4 im selben Cluster bald voll sind. Nun wollten wir einige wichtige Server die mehr Leistung brauchen migrieren. Der erste Server war kein Problem. Die Migration verlief problemlos. Beim zweiten funktionierte ebenfalls alles...

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