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    Initial installation: file system setup advise needed

    Hello, back in the day I used to utilize LVM for storage. A couple of PVE hosts I've setup were nothing special regarding their hardware and articles regarding file system format seemed to advise using LVM for a variety of reasons. Now I've got a one year old Proliant DL360 Gen 10 with two...
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    Weird issue: configuration done in a VM wasn't saved to disk

    Hello :) I encountered a strange issue today. One of my VM servers had some additions/changes done to it about two weeks ago. Without reduntantly explaining too much, a site with a map was added to a service its running. This new site with the map had been running fine for two weeks, but today...
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    The best File System to buid up a Proxmox cluster

    Hello I am volunteer administrator for a non profit organization in France . We have received a donation of an old hardware configuration with 2 servers and a SAN appliance: 2 Serveurs IBM 7944 52G 1x Six-Core Intel Xeon E5645 2.4 GHz (12 MB cache), 1x 4 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 1333 MHz LP SDRAM...
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    VMs are converting to read-only file system once a day. Why is this happening?

    I have Home Assistant and Ubuntu 20.04 running in virtual machines and every day I come home to find the console flooded with these messages. I ran a SMART test on my SSD and it came back clean with no errors. Sometimes when I reboot the VM it starts back up fine, other times I have to run fsck...
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    [SOLVED] VM's Filesystem seems corrupted after failed snapshot

    EDIT: I used fsck /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv as suggested by @Pifouney. Thank you! My server is up and running again. --- Hello everyone, I hope you're doing great. I'm not. First, I have to mention I am pretty new to Proxmox and don't have a ton of knowledge. I encountered following...
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    Locate & Identify VM & Template storage usage

    I am trying to figure out how to find the file sizes that my VMs and Containers are using. For example, in Windows, I run VMs in VMware Workstation 16. I can easily go to the VM folder and check the size of any VM; such as 25 GB, 87 GB, etc. I can easily tell the difference between a FULL clone...
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    Local folder passthrough

    Hi! Is it possible to have a local folder passthrough to a hosted VM. Could not find any option in Proxmox GUI. Running Proxmox 6.3-3 with Ceph RBD for the VM images. Regards, Cesar da Silva
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    New Setup/Hardware advice and ZFS questions

    I'm an enthusiast and I'm just looking for some more detailed info in regards to proxmox and how this can actually help us. Any comments will be welcome and appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time. FOR HOME USE The main objective is to use VMs to run OS (Windows 10 pro) and the clients...
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    ZFS on storage only

    Hi guys, I am absolutely new to Proxmox and also have never installed/configured a virtualisation server for hosting several VMs. So, I heard and thought, Proxmox seems a good idea for that, especially, as I like Debian a lot. The system will be: Ryzen 7 3700X, 32 GB RAM, Gigabyte Mainboard, 1...
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    Unable to Mount exfat Volumes

    Hi, For some reason, I am unable to mount any exfat volumes, even though I have the exfat-utils and exfat-fuse packages installed... I get this message: root@Ancalagon:~# mount /dev/sdh /mnt/testing/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdh, missing codepage or...
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    Guest os have iops lower than Host OS

    Hi all, im pretty new on proxmox VE, and finding a sotrage solution for performance and stabiility. I surprised about IOPS of VMs on proxmox always lower than IOPS of NVME SSD specification. Hardware as bellow: - 2 sata SSD installed Promox VE 5.2 and set raid 1 for them using hard raid - 6...
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    ISO file upload not working / not recognized

    Hi there, I'm trying to add an .iso image (ubuntu desktop 18.04) to the local storage of a 5.2-1 machine. The manual upload fails after 100% with "Error 0 occurred while receiving the document." and if I use wget ...ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso in /var/lib/vz/template/iso, the file is there...

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