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    [TUTORIAL] Migrating DC from hyper-v cluster to proxmox with ceph storage

    Since I needed to document the process anyway I thought I share my experience of migrating a domain controller from a hyper-v cluster to a proxmox cluster with ceph storage. I wrote this with these 2 wiki articles as background information...
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    Live migrations failing seemingly randomly over many months and versions. Device or resource busy.

    The usual failure looks like: ... 2021-08-03 15:24:47 migration active, transferred 32.6 GiB of 32.0 GiB VM-state, 120.2 MiB/s 2021-08-03 15:24:48 migration active, transferred 32.7 GiB of 32.0 GiB VM-state, 117.0 MiB/s 2021-08-03 15:24:49 migration active, transferred 32.8 GiB of 32.0 GiB...
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    Access VMs on old Proxmox disk

    I did a fresh proxmox install on a new ssd. On installation it recognizes that there was a vg "pve" on an old hard disc and asked me to rename it to "pve--OLD..." , so I did. The new Proxmox Server comes up, and I see that it somehow recognizes both hard disks. But it doesn't show any of my...
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    [TUTORIAL] How to migrate from 3.4 to 6.4

    Hi So you need to move to the last version and you get the chills because it is such a huge jump in versions. Worry no more it is quite simple!!!!!! Just make regular backup of you VMs Using ssh for instance with Filezilla, copy the backup files (just need the last backup of each) to your...
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    Proxmox Cant remove image after online migration

    Hi 2 all! I have a problem, Proxmox Cant remove image after migration. pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 6.2-2 (running kernel: 5.4.65-1-pve) pve-manager: 6.2-15 (running version: 6.2-15/48bd51b6) pve-kernel-5.4: 6.2-7 pve-kernel-helper: 6.2-7 pve-kernel-5.3: 6.1-6 pve-kernel-5.0: 6.0-11...
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    iSCSI: storage '<name>' is not online, VM working, no possibility to backup and/or migrate

    Hello! I'm running a PVE 5.2 cluster with 4 nodes. The cluster is attached to a SAN, an HP P2000 G3 iSCSI. VMs are hosted on the SAN. The first controller of the SAN failed. Everything is running on the second controller, but I can't manage PVE anymore. Although VMs are running, it seems that...
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    [SOLVED] Broken Pipe Lessons Learned (node naming and ssh_known_hosts fumble)

    Just sharing a possible issue some people may run into in the future experiencing a broken pipe when migrating a VM, during a replicate operation, etc. BACKGROUND I recently upgraded the CPU and motherboard for my alternate node. There were some issues during the upgrade and considering I had...
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    Moving config to a new server

    I have my server died but the SSD is ok. I bought a new HW and want to have the same config as I had before. The HW is slightly different - I tried cloning ssd (a new server has only M2 while the old one had only SATA). It did not really work. What do I need to do to restore all my VMs to a new...
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    Manually move VM to a different Node

    I am working in an environment with multiple, unclustered, nodes and have one node that needs to go down for maintenance. I'd like to migrate the active VMs and containers on this node to a different node for continuity of access. I know that without an established cluster, this has been...
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    [SOLVED] Migration uses external IP over Local

    Alto I have specifically disabled the external IPS it seems for some reason the migration tries to use external ip over local ips. Note all these. behaviours are only present in latest releases, last 1 month broked also the ceph cluster that might be unrelated or disk issue, i still debug that...
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    Migrate VM problem: SSH error?

    Coming from this thread, for information purposes. In order to get this done, I migrated the VM to another node, to avoid the downtime. Migrating back, I got this error: 2020-10-06 19:32:44 ERROR: online migrate failure - aborting 2020-10-06 19:32:44 aborting phase 2 - cleanup resources...
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    Why Migrate VM/LXC Restart Mode with NFS storage ?

    Why Migrate VM/LXC Restart Mode with NFS storage ? why live migrate into restart mode ?
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    [SOLVED] How to migrate container from one node to another, each with it's local storage

    So here's the setup in a nutshell: two nodes: node1, node2 in a cluster cluster is healthy and running the latest version of PVE, all updates applied node1 storages: local, local-zfs, pool1 node2 storages: local, local-zfs, pool2 The question is: how do I move a container that runs on node1...
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    Move storage with CT without restore backup

    Hi, I'm planning to replace hardware of my Proxmox node. Currently multiple Containers with total of few TB are located on 2x 6TB HDD with ZFS storage called just "local4". I know that safest way will be create full Container Backup, shutdown node, move my disk to new machine and then restore...
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    Physical Linux Server to Proxmox VM

    Hello, I have a linux server (debian) to migrate to a bigger disk, in the process I'm looking forward to virtualize this server. I did a clonezilla disk image of the server (it is on a external HD), how can I import it to proxmox and start a new VM with this image? Couldn't find much info about...
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    [SOLVED] Help - Proxmox VE server fails boot after power outage

    Hi, after power outage I face this issue: Proxmox VE server fails to boot. I started Live-CD, mounted LVM-root and boot partition and chroot in the system. However there are many commands not available, e.g. ls mount pvs ... I can install packages like coreutils, lvm2, ... but this does not...
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    [SOLVED] Live Migration LXC

    Hello all, is there now a live Migration for LXC with local Storage? With KVM no problem, but with LXC only restart mode is possible.
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    Migration ESXi 6.7 to Proxmox

    Hello everyone, I am currently using ESXi 6.7 on my primary server but thinking of migrating to Proxmox which runs on my backup server. According to the manual the described process is having server A with ESXi and server B with Proxmox and migrating the VMs from A to B. Unfortunately this is...
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    Failed to load virtio-net:virtio bei Migration

    Hallo, ich habe seit geraumer Zeit immer wieder mit einem Fehler bei der Live Migration einer VM zu kämpfen den ich nicht exakt eruieren kann. Eine Reproduktion des issue ist auch nicht möglich, da dieses Problem immer nur sporadisch auftaucht und ich noch keine Möglichkeit gefunden habe, das...
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    Migration to ZFS failed.

    Pve host use LVM Established a new ZFS, the following error occurred while migrating the virtual machine mount: /var/lib/lxc/104/.copy-volume-2: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. Specified filename...

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