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    Moving from Qemu KVM to Proxmox on same hardware

    I am currently running Qemu-KVM on an Ubuntu 14.04 host. Since I don't have spare hardware, I will need to backup my current VM's to restore them on the new ProxMox environment. I understood that in theory a KVM VM disk (either raw or qcow2) can be used as disk on ProxMox (5.2) too, so would my...
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    Move Proxmox host to new disk - running out of space

    Hello, At the moment I have 3 hdds on a hardware raid card as raid 5. This gives me about 260gb of storage available to Proxmox. 60gb of this is used for ISOs etc. the rest is for the VM LXC storage. I am running out of room. The Proxmox host has some customisation so I can pass a gpu through...
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    Bringing in foreign LXC containers and Vms

    I am dismantling a Vmware ESX and a Hyper-V server, plus want to bring into Proxmox dozens of existing LXC containers that I may tar or RSYNC into the Proxmox server. Specially in the case of foreign LXC containers that reside on the file system of another host, is there a mechanism to migrate...
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    [SOLVED] Slow operation when migrating a container

    Hi all. I'm trying to do a project for school with high availability and we choose do it with proxmox, but I have a little problem. I have 3 nodes, and the storage the de VMs and containers is on NFS connected directly with the nodes of proxmox. My problem is, when I try to migrate doing...
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    Can't Migrate KVM VPS

    Hello, i have this error migrating a VPS: task started by HA resource agent 2018-05-15 12:36:57 starting migration of VM 305 to node 'cvs1' (10.10.10.1) 2018-05-15 12:36:57 found local disk 'KVM:vm-305-disk-1' (in current VM config) 2018-05-15 12:36:57 found local disk...
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    Upgrading root disk on PVE host in a cluster?

    Hi All Homelab environment. System 1: Supermicro X10SDV, 8C/16T, 64GB. 256GB NVMe (as system and some for lvm-thin) 1TB SATA SSD (as ZFS pool, shared via NFS) 4x SATA disks as ZFS Pool shared via NFS System 2: Intel NUC, 2C/4T, 16GB 512GB SATA SSD Configured as a proxmox cluster. Bunch of...
  7. S

    What's wrong with this picture?

    Ok. It's not a picture but still... take a look how long it took to migrate LXC container (that is on a NAS so there is nothing to actually migrate). 2018-04-23 15:53:24 shutdown CT 144 2018-04-23 15:54:06 starting migration of CT 144 to node 'vh3' (10.168.100.103) 2018-04-23 15:54:07 volume...
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    Physical to PROXMOX VM

    Hi, I have old physical unknown linux OS with no access to OS, is it possible somehow migrate to Proxmox VM?
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    migrate ESXI 5.5 to Proxmox 5.1

    Greetings. The problem arose when I tried to migrate VM Ubuntu ESXI 5.5. 5.1 on Proxmox. Describe their actions. 1) using esxi converter, I got the image of the vmdk (the machine did not have installed VMWare Tools) 2) created a machine with a vmdk disk on Proxmox 3) without starting the VM was...
  10. Thorsten119

    Migrate scheitert / Cannot process volume group pve

    Hi, ich habe frisch meine 2 nodes mir Proxmox (5.1-36) installiert. node1 hat ein Hardware-Raid mit ext4. node2 soll mein Notfall-Host werden. Hier sind 2 Festplatten drin und hier habe ich bei der Installation ZFS (Raid1) gewählt. Ich habe beide nodes in einem Cluster zusammengefasst. Soweit...
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    CRIU Experiment

    Hello everyone, has anyone installed CRIU in proxmox nodes to experiment live migration? How did you do so? I know it's not stable and I'll not install it on production. I would like to install it on my laboratory (kind of sandbox). Any guidance would be great! Thanks in advance
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    Migrating a physical linux server to proxmox

    Greetings From what I undestand I may use dd to write a raw image of the server I wish to migrate. I should then setup a proxmox host and and add my newly created raw image to it. Then restart it. However it does not work. If I wish not to use a cd (clonezilla) how can I go about migrating a...
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    Updateing cluster from 4.4 to 5.x

    Hello all, we're running an existing cluster with 3 nodes on 4.4. Current nodes have identical hardware and running vms in production. No local storage, everything on Synology HA NFS. We'd like to add 4 new nodes with different hardware (better in terms of RAM and CPU). The new nodes are...
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    Start VM on different nodes using iSCSI

    I have a Proxmox cluster with 6 nodes sharing an LVM on a single large iSCSI LUN. My intention is to be able to start up my VMs on any of the 6 nodes, given that there is enough resources available. Now I have a VM set up on node A, and I'm confused about how to move it to node B. 1. If I try...
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    Upgrade container (debian 8 to 9) via apt

    Hi all, Is it possible to upgrade a LXC container from Debian 8 to 9 just by using apt-get or it needs a new and then to migrate all data? Thanks
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    Existierende KVM-VMs mit RAW-LVM migrieren?

    Hallo! Ich verwalte einen Ubuntu 16.04 Server, auf dem mehrere KVM-VMs existieren. Auf dem Server gibt es eine 3TB große LVM-Gruppe, die auf einem RAID5 läuft. Als Datenträger für jede VM wurde ein LVM-Volume als RAW-Device definiert. Ich weiß, etwas statisch was die Datenträgergröße angeht...
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    Importing some windows machines from ESXi

    Hello, I am trying to move my last several VMs from ESXi, the linux ones were a cinch but Windows7 ones are giving me some trouble. On ESXi, I use the "ghettoVCB" backup tool which under the hood, uses "vmkfstools -i" to clone the VMs and make a "thin" .vmdk backup (which is a .vmdk text...
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    [SOLVED] CentOS 6 OpenVZ to LXC migration issues

    Hi all. I'd like to share some issues I faced after migration CentOS 6 containers from OpenVZ (Proxmox VE 3.4) to LXC (Proxmox VE 4.1) using https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Convert_OpenVZ_to_LXC. I had a CentOS 6 CT installed from a standard template. After migrating it to LXC there were two...
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    Migration von KVM VMs ins LVM

    Moin, ich möchte eine Reihe von lose umherfliegenden KVM Maschinen in eine Proxmox Instanz (aktuelle 4.4) importieren. Promox läuft in einem 2Node Setup mit DRBD und LVM. Die Frage: Wo kopiere ich die Images hin? Ablegen im Lokalen /var/vz/ Storage war einfach, aber hier weiß ich gerade nicht...
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    LVM system migration to new disk

    Hi guys, I'm now trying to migrate my old 64GB install SSD to a new 240GB SSD. I got a USB to MSATA adapter and I can reach the new SSD from console. How should I do this? I saw posts about pvcreate to get the disk formatted to LVM, then vgextend to add it to the cluster, pmove to move the...