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    [SOLVED] HDD passthrough wont work with raid controller

    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.
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    Best way to monitor MegaRAID controller

    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.
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    one of my 20 HDDs stopped working in Proxmox, please 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...
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    Confused... VM FileServer using ZFS on the host.

    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...
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    Proxmox with an ovm vm, which option for providing hdd storage and raid 1?

    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...
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    HDD Raid config with PVE and VMs on SSD

    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...
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    Lost hdd spindown capability; not making progress

    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...
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    Passed through USB3 HDD doesn't work anymore after restart: "usb 3-1: Not enough host controller resources for new device state."

    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...
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    Performance Ceph-Resources, best practice

    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...
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    How do I access the harddrives of Proxmox from a different machine?

    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...
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    Grund für hohen Load Cycle Count auf einem ZFS Pool finden

    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...
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    [SOLVED] How to show USB Storage like internal HDD?

    Hello,i'm new on proxmox. I have been installed proxmox,and i set up "xpenology" and it works successful. Now i'm trying about,how can i mount usb storage like internal hdd for xpenology? I must show it like internal storage, because i cant use xpenology full function. Is there a method you can...
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    [SOLVED] How to mount a hard drive without format

    Hello, im ebbe and im kinda new to proxmox. i', trying to mout 2 hdd's (2tb) so i can use them in my windows server vm. there is already a lot of data on them so i dotn want to format them. right now they are listed in disks as device type usage /dev/sdb...
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    VM not starting after a power failure of the server

    Hi Guys, I am new to Proxmox. I have a VM in which Kemp LoadBalancer is installed. Initially, I downloaded the Esxi image and use "qm importovf....." to create the VM. Today I had a power failure in my office and the server restarted, after a while when I opened Proxmox, every VM was off. So...
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    Hard drive incorrectly formatted and still in the list

    Hello, I have integrated a USB stick into Proxmox as LVM. I didn't want this at all and so shaped the stick. Now I can still see the hard drive in the hard drive list on the left and would like to have it out. (I'm completely new to Proxmox and don't have much idea)
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    Mount Point verschieben?

    Hallo liebe Forumsmitglieder, in einem Anfall von geistiger Umnachtung, bzw. vermutlich absoluter Volltrunkenheit :rolleyes: hatte ich bei einem Container den Speicherort falsch angegeben. Normal wäre es mir egal und ich würde den Container neu aufsetzen. Leider ist es aber mein Nextcloud...
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    Richtige SSD und Festplatten Konfiguration für Proxmox (Cache, Swap usw.)

    Hallo Liebe Proxmoxer:innen, Ich mache ab Dezember eine Umschulung zum Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration und möchte mir zu den Lernzwecken eine Testserver basteln. Wenn ich Proxmox installiere verlangt dieser immer eine Swappartition, und da fängt meine Frage runde im Kopf an? Und zwar...
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    alte Backups auf neuem Server restoren?

    Hallo, ich habe heute eine weitere Festplatte in meinen Proxmox Server eingebaut. Dannach kam aber die Fehlermeldung: "No Operating System found". Weil ich zu keiner Lösung gekommen bin und das Internet mir nicht helfen wollte habe ich dann einfach Proxmox auf der neuen Festplatte installiert...
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    Hardware to buy (SSD)

    Hello, I want to buy SSDs for Proxmox Root-FS, VMs/ CTs, and Special Device for ZFS for two 6TB WD Red HDDs. I found this model online for 115$ (used): Seagate Nytro 1551 480GB 6G SATA Mainstream Endurance Is it recommendable? I am running Nextcloud and some very small CTs (e.g. Unifi...
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    Why "discard" isn't enabled by default?

    I was wondering, why the "discard" option at Hard Disk isn't set by default. Can that cause negative effects or why it's not set by default?

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