migration

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    Best way to separate VMs?

    Hello, I have a situation where I share a server with another business and it has come time where we need to part ways and so I need to transfer my VMs off of this server and onto a separate server. I would need this separate server to be stand-alone when all is said and done. How would I go...
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    Moving a node from one cluster to another

    Hello, I've searched and haven't been able to find what I'm looking for. Apologies if I've missed it. We're running PVE 7.4-3 and we have a cluster of 11 nodes in various data centres around the world. We're having some corosync problems and also 3 of the nodes really belong in their own...
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    Having Issues after node & cluster rename ~ Can't connect to destination address using public key

    Hi. I followed the guide https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Renaming_a_PVE_node, and renamed my main node, and also my cluster name. When trying to move a vm back to the newly named node, I get the error 2023-09-04 21:09:39 # /usr/bin/ssh -e none -o 'BatchMode=yes' -o 'HostKeyAlias=ravenclaw'...
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    Corosync Best Practice

    I'm trying to figure out the best way to ensure corosync has its own network. Please let me know if any of these points weren't ideal and why: I created a VLAN with no gateway (just a space on my switch with a unique subnet) 10.5.0.X and set all 8x of my nodes to addresses on that subnet. I...
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    How can I migrate a node and it's VMs to another PVE instance on a different system

    This is my first major project doing anything like this so it's all very new to me still. It's been a bit of a trial by fire and a lot of learning as I go so forgive me if I'm misinterpreting anything. I've been working solo on developing a solution for hosting VMs loaded with our SDK of...
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    Migration of RAID1 ZFS to Proxmox

    Hello everyone, I've been using TrueNas Core/Scale(After upgrade) as my NAS solution for the last two years. I've also recently built a PVE on a separate system to which I've migrated all my services / apps to in the last few days. I'm at the point where I want to know migrate my ZFS pool from...
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    What happens during VM migration?

    I have a FreeBSD 12.3 guest running a poller node and when it gets installed everything runs just fine. We can stop and start the guest too, no problem. The guest uses VirtIO SCSI and uses an ceph RBD image of 120GB. The FreeBSD qemu-guest-agent is installed. If for some reason the VM is...
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    Migrating ZFS From TrueNAS to Proxmox

    Hey all, I feel like I'm not the first to need this, but I've searched forums, reddit, and the internet as a whole to figure this out and just can't. I've got four disks I've just pulled from a TrueNAS system and put into my Proxmox box. I was able to import the filesystem using zpool...
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    Migration and Replication Issue

    Hello everyone ! I have configured a 2-node cluster with QDevice working properly. Now I reached the moment when I have to set up the HA but I am encountering some obstacles. Here are the configurations I have done till now : ZFS local storage (I am using the created one from the proxmox and...
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    Proxmox7 to 8 problems - RAM motion fails

    Hello everyone, while upgrading from Proxmox 7 to 8, we encountered a significant issue during the migration from kernel 5.15 to 6.2 and vice versa. All the machines were frozen. Furthermore, when attempting to migrate from kernel 6.2 to 6.2, but with QEMU from 8 to 7, Proxmox became upset...
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    PVE 7 migration to PVE 8: Windows 11

    Hello, i am doing a migration from PVE7.1 with LVM to PVE8.0 with ZFS using fresh hardware. So far 4 linux migrations went flawless: Create a backup, transfer the backup file and the configuration. Do the restore on the new host. But then there is also a W11 VM and this ends in a Bluescreen...
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    [SOLVED] Guest migration via ceph copies disk to local-storage

    Hi guys, i have a single debian with guest-agent, running as a VM on a 3 node-cluster (each node has 2 OSD's building the ceph-cluster (rpool1)). When i tried to online-migrate the VM i got (you'll notice later that the disk does not lay on the local-storage but on the ceph (pool1), and this...
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    HA replication without automatic migration

    Can I do HA replication without automatic migration? I want to start the container manually on another node only if necessary after analysing the situation. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks.
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    Moving Physical Disk (USB) & VMs to new Proxmox Node

    I've been using Proxmox nodes in a cluster of 2 for awhile and they both have relatively low resources, so I bought a PowerEdge R720 that's a lot more capable. At the moment I'm low on storage and I've been using an external 4TB HD external HD on one of my existing nodes. I'd like to be able...
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    [SOLVED] Why does my PVE-Cluster migrate VMs and CTs when issueing the start command?

    This has started happening ever since PVE 7.4.x I can reproduce the issue 100% of the time when (bulk) stopping VMs and CTs on one Node, then (bulk) starting them back up again. As soon as the start command is issued, the VMs and CTs will migrate to a different Node, although they should just...
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    [SOLVED] Volume does not exist error after VM migration

    Hi I created a cluster of two nodes by installing PVE 7.4-1 on an old thinkpad t61 I had lying around. I then shut down and migrated a vm from the first node, lets call it n1 to the thinkpad, lets call it n2. The migration went OK. However the vms disk was not moved over to n2. The vm fails to...
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    [SOLVED] Migration from vCenter 7 to Proxmox VE

    Hi, i am trying to migrate my Exchange Server 2019 on Windows 2019 in a VM to my new Proxmox VE. I tried to follow the manual on your wiki. At first i tried to generate a ovf file: ovftool vi://root@x.x.x.x/exchange /mnt/pve/tempvms/exchange/ Transfer is successful. After that i tried do run...
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    migration error

    good, when I migrate my vms it takes time to start the operation
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    Virtual machine freeze after migration

    Hello all, I recently configure PVE cluster version 7.3 consist of four nodes: two Supermicro servers and two Fujitsu servers. When I try migration of virtual hosts from Supermicro nodes to Fujitsu nodes virtual hosts freeze after migration and gain processor usage to about 80%. Migration from...
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    [SOLVED] Migration sehr langsam - IO-Verzögerung hoch

    Ich hab gestern einen zweiten Proxmox-Node in Betrieb genommen und beide Nodes zu einem Cluster verbunden. Die Hardware ist zweimal identisch; HP Microserver Gen8 Xeon E3 1265L v2 (4 Kerne / 8 Threads) 16 GB RAM 120 GB Boot SSD 1 TB SSD für Local Storage (VM-Disks und CT-Volumes) Das Local...

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