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I just bought a new drive the capacity is 12TB but the drive size shows 2.04TB. I am not sure if it's a hardware thing, I have a Dell Poweredge r410. Please help. // EDIT: It now is using GPT but still shows up as 2TB. //

Hello, I use a MiniPC as a proxmox backup server. I have a 2.5 inch 128GB SSD connected via a USB3.0 adapter. The operating system is installed on it. And I have an 8TB USB hard drive connected for the backups. I know this is not the best solution, but it has worked for me for over a year...

Hello, I use a MiniPC as a proxmox backup server. I have a 2.5 inch 128GB SSD connected via a USB3.0 adapter. The operating system is installed on it. And I have an 8TB USB hard drive connected for the backups. I know this is not the best solution, but it has worked for me for over a year...

I understand most people care about backup, hdd failure etc. I will also care about those in future hopefully. For now, I just want to experiment an experience proxmox for 2 things as follows: 1) Have proxmox set up in ssd, all ISO, VM will be stored in the SSD. This part I think I can achieve...

Hello everyone, We have a Raid 10 server with 4x 2Tb HDDs (spinning disks). The installation runs well with MDRaid 10 and LVM-Thin/Ext4. Overall, it's a static file server that's part of our CDN infrastructure. The question now is whether ZFS can take the place of MDRaid without compromising...

Hi there! I'm struggling with a recent issue. Apparently this hasn't been an issue before as the HDDs have been running 24/7 since I started running proxmox close to 9 months ago. My HDDs spin down after about 15 minutes of inactivity. This means they are spinning down and back up anywhere from...

Hello community, I am pretty new and noob to Proxmox and ZFS and trying to setup a new homelab. Here is my configuration for it 1xNVME 1TB 4xSATA HDD 4TB each CPU: 12th Gen Intel i5-12400 (12) @ 5.600GHz RAM: 64 GB (planning to upgrade to 128, but not in the nearest future) My motherboard...

I have a Windows guest (Windows Server 2022, also happened on 2019) with: 80GB of memory (Host has 128) 30 processors (2 sockets, out of 32 total) SCSI Hard Disk Attached (ZFS RAID 0 was configured on install, not after) Network Speed of ~20MB/s The guest works beautifully with everything else...

Hello, I tried to create a backup of all VM by adding an external USB HDD to the system, mount them at /media/backup. Afterwards I started the backup via GUI. I am able to see that the backup finished (it reached 100%) but afterwards the tmp file failed. INFO: 95% (171.3 GiB of 180.0 GiB) in...

Hi, i have a problem, i want to connect a raid controller to a VM, i got the serialnumber for the controller, i type the command line to the main proxmox commandline. It connects, but there is not one large partition (I use Raid 0 on 20 hdd's), but 3-4 smaller ones.

Hi there. I have a raid controller LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i 6G in Raid 6 (Installed 4x SATA HDD). What do you recommend for monitoring this raid card. Thanks for help.

All of a sudden without doing anything, one mounted drive appears with a "?". Every drive was mounted via the GUI and all 20 drives were merged into a large pool through a TrueNAS VM. Now suddenly one of the drives does not appear to be mounted and I get the error: "unable to activate storage...

Hello Guys, i was using proxmox VE from long time ago, using clusters etc, on different ways. Now i need to make a File Server and i want use one of the Host who have 3 HDD Disk 8TB on a zfs raizZ1-0 on the PVE host. The first thing I thought of was create raw images for the VM that would work...

Hardware: ASRock j4205 with 8gb RAM, 2x4TB WD Red, crucial ssd 250gb (sata), 1gbit ethernet. Hi, I'm using proxmox on the j4205-itx board and run omv in a vm as a nas solution. I also want to have the to hdds mirrored/raid 1. As far as I understand there are four options to provide hdd storage...

Hello, I have a server running Proxmox with two VMs (Ubuntu& Homeassistant) for home use. Currently all VMs and PVE are running on a single SSD. I am considering to install a RAID array of HDDs on the server to have the server also function as a NAS - though still have a question about this and...

I'm configuring a new server with 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs. The HDDs are only used once every 6 hours and I need them to spindown when not in use in order to save energy. Initially these drives were not configured as Proxmox storage. The server does not yet have any VMs or containers. To test spindown...

Hello, Introduction: I have been using Proxmox with a couple of VMs and LXC containers. One of the VMs is my NAS (OpenMediaVault 5). Hardware: - HP T630 Thin Client - USB 3.0 HDD Enclosure (Lacie) with separate power supply. In Proxmox, I passed through the USB device to the OpenMediaVault...

Hallo zusammen! Setup: 9 Nodes, 53 LXC, Ceph-Verbund aus HDDs mit SSDs als Cache, einige Maschinen haben ein lokales ZFS (SSDs) als Cache. Prinzipiell ist die Performance gut und wir können uns nicht beschweren. Leider sind aber Folgebackups recht langsam. Beispiel: LXC foo: 100 GB/400 files...

Hi there! I am absolutely new to Proxmox and just started it on a small home server to play around with it and to learn for future projects. Proxmox is running and as a test I installed Plex with a helper Script (TTECK). Everything works fine, I've got a 500GB HDD for the system and a 4TB HDD...

Hallo zusammen, Der LoadCycle Count der SMART Werte 2er HDD platten steigen aktuell um ca 1000/Tag. Das ist mMn etwas viel und ich würde gerne ausfinden warum. Aktuell läuft nur ein LXC Volume auf dem ZFS Pool dieser beider Platten. Eine Nextcloud mit 300GB und mehreren Usern. Es gibt...