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Soon I'm going to be moving all my VMs from one node to new hardware. The existing local storage is LVM-thin, all VM disks are qcow. The new hardware is going to be all new SSDs in a ZFS array. I have a dedicated PBS node that has current backups of all my VMs and the host. After some research...

We have a running PBS with an almost full storage (5 Tb), so we purchased a new dedicated server with bigger storage size. We are facing difficulties to understand how to move (migrate) data from the old to the new PBS server We would like to migrate backup data for sure, best would be to...

We have a Proxmox cluster comprising two identical large machines, with 120 cores and 370+ gig of memory, and with each machine having two ZFS disk pools, Tank1 of 50TB HDD, and Tank2 of 2TB of SSD, and a third less powerful machine with just one ZFS pool, a mirrored paid of 10TB disks...

Hi, ich möchte eine VMWare VM nach Proxmox mit qm importdisk migrieren, stehe aber bei auf dem Schlauch. Weil ich habe zwei disk in der VM. Wenn ich eine Disk habe, mache ich es wie folgt qm importdisk 999 /mnt/esx/vmfs/volumes/Datastore/WK/WK.vmdk local-zfs -format raw Aber wie stelle ich es...

Hi, I've been looking into using Hooks in my setup to announce the VM IP addresses via BGP but unfortunately, the documentation is lacking of important information such as the behaviour during a migration. I added my hook script to one VM, started a migration and noticed that the hook already...

Hi All, I'm migrating my proxmox server to a new bigger server (more storage and compute power). As a precaution I've setup cluster and added a third 'temporary' server to help migrating if things go south! The migration was performed from old -> temp -> new, all within the cluster. When...

Is it possible to add another node to an existing cluster, but with already running VMs on this node. I want to transfer a node from cluster A to cluster B with all VMs running on it

Hi, I'm new to Proxmox. I've been using TrueNAS scale to run my dockers, VMS, and as a NAS. I wanted to move to Proxmox due to limitations and a few issues. However, I have several dockers that I really really don't want to have to rebuild. I wanted to know if there is a way I can Virtualize...

I have a VM with one quite big data disk. I want to move that VM to another Proxmox host in my cluster. The target system has enough space. Unfortunately the source system has not enough space anymore to create a snapshot. I can power down the VM and do any operation and it is not time...

Hi, Today, we have a power failure in one of the nodes and went shutdown, but none of the VMs in the node migrated to another node, may I know if anyone can advise on this? Thank you

I am having an unusual problem where, when I migrate a container from node 1 to node 2, it breaks. I migrate the container, the container shows up in node 2's VM list just fine, but when I try to start the container, it doesn't boot. It comes up with this errer "TASK ERROR: unable to open file...

6.4.14 while trying to move qcow2 from NFS storage to local storage. drive-scsi1: transferred 44.5 GiB of 300.0 GiB (14.82%) in 31m 21s drive-scsi1: transferred 44.5 GiB of 300.0 GiB (14.83%) in 31m 22s drive-scsi1: transferred 44.5 GiB of 300.0 GiB (14.84%) in 31m 24s drive-scsi1: Cancelling...

Hallo, wir betreiben einen Proxmox Backup Server in einer VM auf einem Proxmox Virtualisierer. Nach einer Migation der VM auf einen anderen Virtualisierer kam folgende Fehlermeldung: TASK ERROR: could not activate storage 'pbs1-datastore1': pbs1-datastore1: error fetching datastores - 500...

Hi, I've created a video which demonstrates how to migrate VM from ESXi/vSphere to Proxmox in few steps, without any special scripts. (I hope it's OK to publish the link to the video).

Hi, How to perform migration from OLVM (kvm based) to promox without using command 'qm importdisk'? Is the another way to import using gui?

I was doing some server maintenance today and migrating some containers/VMs and twice I ran into issues with migration due to the following error: TASK ERROR: can't lock file '/var/lock/pve-manager/pve-migrate-xxx' - got timeout This happened with 2 different servers and 2 different...

Hello, we had evaluated proxmox in development for a while. We have proxmox 5.4 on server, which we would like to "delete". We have obtained new HW and installed clean proxmox 7.1. We would like to migrate some VM machines from former hw to new one. Is there any easy/stright-forward solution...

I'm trying to migrate VM storage to Linstor SDS and have some odd troubles. All nodes are running PVE 7.1: pve-manager/7.1-5/6fe299a0 (running kernel: 5.13.19-1-pve) Linstor storage is, for now, on one host. When I create new VM on linstor it works. When I try to migrate VM from another host...

Hello, We have automatic VM migration configured, VM automatic migration works but after migration VM not starting at all it keeps starting all time. Manual migration stop start works but auto no. All info in attached file, Thank you

What’s the expected behavior here? I have a 3-node cluster with dedicated physical corosync network, and a 2nd faster network for storage and networking. The corosync network is configured to failover to the fast network if interrupted. High availability is configured on guests with shared...