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    Hardware Check

    I currently am running FreeNAS on the following system and was wondering if I can use the same system for Proxmox Tyan S5533 mITX Pentium G3240 8 GB ECC RAM I realize that the CPU does not support VT-d -- but I was only planning on using VMs and containers and not necessarily passthrough...
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    Homeuse - Enterprise SSD vs Consumer SSD vs HDD - und Fragen über Fragen

    Hallo PVE Community, ich habe jetzt seit gut 4 Monaten eine PVE Spielwiese bei mir und möchte diese Spielwiese zum Homeserver weiterentwickeln. Der / Die Use-Cases: Openhab-Server (Basierend auf Opoenhabian @ ubuntu 20.04 x64) Zugriff auf diverse USB Sticks (Bridges) - das klappt in der...
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    Storage question - dedicated server

    Does the PBS require same storage as the normal proxmox servers? Currently have mainly lsi cards in IT mode. Will it work the pbs? Any suggestions on minimal requirements?, all i could find is 8GB ram, and high grade boot drive
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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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    Proxmox Ceph Cluster Configuration

    Hi all, I read a lot of documentation about Proxmox Ceph Cluster but I can't figure out the best solution for my case. I would like to configure a little 3 node cluster using Proxmox and Ceph with the ability of add in the future more nodes (so more CPU and RAM to the cluster) if needed or...
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    NEW HOME SERVER Ryzen MOBO? -=Asrock Rack x470=- VS -=Asus Prime pro x470=- VS -=Asus pro ws x570 ACE=-

    edit: to put it simple Which one (see title) is better and more stable for a workstation usage (I swithch many VMs)??? Time to change... Currently I'm having my old AMD FX9590 w 990FXA board,obviously no ECC, fine IMMO grouping etc... by the way none of VMs are booting after new year holydays...
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    Moving VM's from VMWare to Proxmox

    Hello, We are moving all of our VMWare virtual machines to Proxmox. Moving, converting, and transferring the .vmdk to our new Proxmox server is going fine. However, we have a 5TB vmfs5 Dell RAID storage that is being used as a company shared drive. The vmdk file for that storage space is of...
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    Hardware Tipps für ein Homelab?

    Hallo zusammen, seit einiger Zeit möchte ich von meiner Qnap Gurke herunter, auf der ich hauptsächlich Plex, JDownloader2 und viele Familienbilder und Videos drauf hatte. Ausserdem ist darauf noch Backup nach AWS Glacier gelaufen und das war es. Den kleinen Raspberry Pi mit Pi Hole und Squid...
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    Proxmox 5.4-6 VMs very slow

    Hello, I have a slow problem with my VMs (linux / windows) under proxmox, despite the server is efficient server (12 CPU, 64 GB RAM), I gave the machines a lot RAM and CPU but still the slowness exists, as well as the internet connection is perfect Regards, Thank you,
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    Meinungen zu dieser Idee?

    Hallo zusammen, aktuell habe ich ein Synology 4-Bay NAS mit 2x WD Red 6 TB und 1x Seagate IronWolf 12 TB Festplatten als NAS System. Darauf liegen diverse Daten: Filme, Serien, Musik, Fotos, Projekte, private Dokumente und auch einige Backups. Bislang hat es mir gereicht lokal über SMB auf die...
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    New Hardware Configuration

    Hi all, I'm hoping I can get some insightful input from this community. I'm looking at building out a new Proxmox cluster with Ceph as the backend. I'd like to get a couple of answers to see if this makes sense and if not where I should make changes. http://bit.ly/2XvgrXa Its a 2U 4 Node...
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    Role to connect usb device

    Hello all ! This is my first thread. I have PVE 5.3-5 running smoothly. I have several VMs running for some specific user. I though once he is assigned to this PVEVMAdmin rule, he could insert and remove a USB Stick via web browser, but he can't. I have been trying to find a rule in which a user...
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    Sugesstion for hardware

    Hello. Need to buy server for education purpose. (looking in HP dirrection) It will be used for students LABS - who will install and configure different OS simultaneously (at the same time) Need that Proxmox worked fine with 12 students working (simultaneously) What to look for in hardware...
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    Neue Hardware - Migration auf Proxmox

    Moin Moin, zur Zeit betreibe ich einen Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster aus 3x Supermicro Server Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2, 128 GB RAM per ISCSI auf 2x QNAP- TDS-16489 128GB RAM jeweils 8 TB SSD Storage. Switch Netgear M4300-12x12F ca. 20 VM´s ca. 6 TB. Fileserver, Exchange, SQL, CTI ca. 50 User...
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    Sharing Necessary Hardware with LXC and VM

    30 year computer guy has spent weeks playing and reading the fine manual and still has virtualization questions for people a whole lot smarter than I am: Short version - I need help sharing hardware (details below): ZFS to containers, Optical drives to any guest os (VM or LXC), dogging down...
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    How to Reset Networking after replacing NIC?

    Hey guys, sorry for the relatively noob-ey question here, but I'm struggling to figure this one out. I originally setup Proxmox 5.0 on an old Core2Quad system that was laying around just a temporary setup which worked well, and I have since moved it to a HP Elitedesk 800 (Haswell i5, Intel NIC)...
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    USB hardware to VM

    Hi, I would like to use a hardware protected software. I have installed this software on a VM windows server 2008 R2. I have done : qm monitor 102 qm> info usbhost Bus 5, Addr 86, Port 2, Speed 12 Mb/s Class ff: USB device 04b9:8000, Sentinel Hardware Key then I have done : # qm...
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    KVM Display Driver Comparisons

    Can someone point me to the pros/cons of the various KVM display drivers? I'm finding it hard to find reliable info on this topic. My use case is several Linux guests running X, accessible with RDP. Does the configured display driver even matter for this? Note that I am not trying to...
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    Searching for the right setup (Hardware and Software).

    Hi I'm going to rebuild the server infrastructure of our companies and could use some input in what direction i should go. The main goal of this is to remove single points of failure. What runs on the infrastructure: Critical: Samba Domain Controller (about 40 users with appData...
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    Hardware/Concept for Ceph Cluster

    Hello, we are using Proxmox with local storage on a small 3 node cluster. Now we are planning to set up a 4 node cluster with network storage (Ceph), live migration, HA and snapshot functionality. We already have some hardware laying around from dev projects. Now I would like to get some ideas...

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