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    High iowait when temporary vzdump snapshots deleted

    Hi Community, Recently we have encountered some performance degradation during LXC snaphost. We are trying to understand what is the root of this problem and are there any workarounds. Brief intro. We are running proxmox 7.1-12/b3c09de3 (running kernel: 5.13.19-6-pve) Storage: RAID10 (4x 4TB...
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    Power failure -> LV not available -> mount fail -> Failed to initialize container

    Hi. I had an power failure. System could reboot from bootdisk (ssd). But one drive is now broken. I am not a lvm expert. Which Things and commands could i learn to fix the problem? Mount commands? repair commands? VM 101 needs disk "hdd". everything seems to be available. but GUI shows that...
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    Extend LVM of Ceph DB/WAL Disk

    I have a 3 node Ceph cluster running Proxmox 7.2. Each node has 4 x HDD OSDs and the 4 OSDs share an Intel Enterprise SSD for the Ceph OSD database (DB/WAL) on each node. I am going to be adding a 5th OSD HDD to each node and also add an additional Intel Enterprise SSD on each node for use with...
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    [SOLVED] LVM-Thin blocks boot, and now is missing

    I think I somehow misunderstood and misconfigured LVM. I come from Windows and went straight into ZFS :) Fortunately only unimportant VMs are on that disk but any help would still be highly appreciated. Here is what I did: My system uses two NVME mirror ZFS drives. Later on, some friends and I...
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    Cannot update volume group STG-TRUENAS with duplicate PV devices.

    Hi, I'm new to proxmox. I have 4 PVE 6.2-4 nodes. I recently added a pool from my truenas via iscsi and created an LVM inside it. When I go to create a machine or move a disk, I get this, how can I solve it please? *OBS, Look the 2 pictures attached. WARNING: Not using device /dev/sdf for PV...
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    Possible bug | pve-root beeing "filled up" when downloading files onto ZFS volume (other than pve-root)

    So I ran into a problem with running proxmox VM on my homelab. I've created ZFS with 3 of my 500gb HDD drives. Everything went as planned except I stumbled upon system freezes, crashes, root-pve beeing filled up. (root-pve is installed as LVM) When I was creating Ubuntu mirror using apt-mirror...
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    Not understanding disks and storage types...

    Hey all, new to Proxmox, just wanting to make sure I'm setting up my drive the "right" way... I'm sure this is easier than I'm making it out to be, but I'm stuck :/ I have a second disk in my server that i want to use for all my VMs/containers/ISOs, etc... basically everything but the...
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    wrong thinlvm getting mounted / boot issues

    Howdy! I have a head-scratcher. I installed 7.2-4 on new hardware and added it to my cluster. The install created three LVMs: LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert data pve twi-aotz-- <794.79g 0.00 0.24...
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    LVM best practice suggestions !!

    Hi, I have a hp proliant dl380p gen8 server with following disks: 2 SSD ( 1 TB each one ) -> RAID 1 15 SAS ( 900 GB each one) -> RAID 50 Raid configuration has been done through hardware controller that is already been integrated on the server. https://imgur.com/a/ulqIU2D We have proxmox on...
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    Is there any way that iSCSI can offer snapshots & HA

    Hi Everyone, We've been struggling moving away from a mal-performing CEPH cluster at a customer site for a little while now, however, our NAS supports iSCSI and NFS, but not CEPH or ZFS over iSCSI. Is there truly no solution to include HA, Live Migration, and PBS Live Backups using an iSCSI...
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    Anfängerfrage: Speicherplatz SSD vs. Anzeige Disks-LVM

    Hallo zusammen, habe mir Proxmox auf einem MiniPC installiert um mein Smart-Home darauf laufen zu lassen. Ich habe eine SSD mit 256GB, aber für den nutzbaren Speicher unter PVE-Disks-LVM zeigt er mir nur 17GB an: Soll das so sein, oder kann ich da etwas ändern?
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    adding a disk and set it as lvm-thin: help needed, please

    hello people, I have been reading quite a bit how to add a new ssd to my homelab (proxmox) and how to add it as lvm-thin storage... I got to the following list of actions (assuming that nvme0n1 is the newly added SSD) format the disk sgdisk -N 1 /dev/nvme0n1 create a physical volume pvcreate...
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    I cant Repair lvm-thin volume after power failure

    Hi All. I have lost access to my thin-lvm and I can't get it repaired. It happened after a power failure. I have an HPPerc Raid controller connected to a Dell MD100 powervault So my lvm for OS is working and my internal 40TB lvm raid is working. It's just the one connected to the other raid...
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    Newb question about ZFS/CEPH etc

    Hi, I'm playing with a small home lab. I would like to use ceph to ensure that I have replicated vm's for reduncancy. I have 2 servers , each with 1 HDD. The first server (HP microserver) with 16gb ram has been running Proxmox for years, hand cranked from Debian running LVM on a 500G SATA...
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    Forcefully delete a virtual disk in a full thin lvm pool

    Hello, I've recently tried restoring a backup after accidentally deleting a VM, and the pool seems to be malfunctioning. A restart didn't fix, googled some bit. Tried lvconvert --repair /dev/pve/data and that gives me Volume group "YUGEv3" has insufficient free space (30 extents): 2385 required...
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    Extending Physical Volume (PV)

    Hello. During initial installation, i selected HDSIZE as 50 GB on my 250 GB NVMe SSD. Proxmox did it thing and divided the 50 gigs into all partitions that was needed. However, over time and VM usage, i became short on space and now i want to extend the local-lvm (so the data local volume) to...
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    Upgrade from 7.0.10 Kernel 5.11.22-7 to 7.2.4 Kernel 5.15.35-1 Cannot Process Volume Group PVE

    Why Hello There! This evening I performed a regular upgrade to a client's long-standing (~2 years) hyperconverged PVE cluster. This cluster has some history but for the most part has been trouble free. The cluster is made up of homogeneous hardware, all Gen8 HPE Proliant servers with one node...
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    Need help fast LVM problems after powerloss

    Currently struggling to get the VMs datastore up and running after a powerloss last night. The LVM part for the OS itself is ok, we are able to login via ssh and the proxmox WEBui shows and we can login. However whenever we try to start a VM the following error is shown: Code...
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    [SOLVED] I'm struggling with mounting old-pve (older installation)

    I needed to reinstall my proxmox ve onto a ssd (just for the boot speed) and I don't really know how to migrate data from old drive to new one (containers) . Btw I can't boot anymore to older installation (grub broke there and rescue boot doesn't see it). I'd no problems whatsoever with mounting...
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    lvm-thin shared storage ?

    I have a newer storage HP msa 2060 FC and the only way to get vm shared under fiber channel is through LVM. since my storage supports thin provisioning, Is it possible to use lvm-thin on top of FC to get a sharing storage. thank you.

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