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    Proxmox lxc migration to Nutanix AHV

    Hello Everyone, I have inherited a Proxmox environment where there are some lxc. Are there any possibilities to export lxc or is there a procedure to prepare the lxc for a infrastructure migration? I would like to avoid rebuilding and porting the application inside. Thanks a lot!!
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    Problems migrating from OpenVZ to LXC Proxmox

    I have a problem by converting OpenVZ container to LXC. It don't starts. Attach a history of commands and logs root@vps2:~# pct restore 102 vzdump-130.tar --storage=local-lvm --ostype=centos --unprivileged recovering backed-up configuration from 'vzdump-130.tar' Logical volume "vm-102-disk-0"...
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    Migration from ganeti

    Hi everyone, I'm currently running a 3-node ganeti cluster (CentOS, KVM) and I'm considering to move to proxmox. But before I setup a proxmox host I wantedto ask if somebody has already managed to successfully migrate VMs from ganeti to proxmox? Or is there some other documentation on how to...
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    Additional Questions Re: "ZFS: Switch Legacy-Boot to Proxmox Boot Tool"

    Hi Everyone, I have a few questions regarding the need to switch to Proxmox Boot Tool for booting from ZFS. I found the need to do this in reading the release notes for PVE 7.x in preparing for my upgrade from 6.4.9. Question 1.) It says the boot will break if I run zpool upgrade on the...
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    Help: Recover proxmox VE environment?

    Hello everyone! Thanks in advance for the help. I’m in the middle of trying to help a friend who’s husband recently passed away. His service is a week from Saturday. He was quite a tinkerer and had many/most of the lights around their house configured with various IOT devices. This whole...
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    Migrate ZFS to LVM-Thin

    I have a three node cluster with ZFS running on each node and aside from disk space and utilization everything runs great, migrations work, backup to NFS, snapshots, the one thing that has me in a jam is disk space, so I decided to migrate all VMS from one node consolidating to two and using the...
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    Hopefully migrating to Proxmox

    Hey all. I'm looking to migrate to Proxmox. I'm currently running an Ubuntu 18.04 host as my KVM host server with LVM LVs(Raw Guests) as my backend. If I was to migrate Proxmox, would I be able to import my existing LVM backend as a VM guest source?
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    Automatische Migration durch HA

    Moin, ich bin ja gerne unendlich faul und lasse die Büchse beim Neustarten die VMs selbst verschieben und neu wieder reinholen. Im Testcluster (homelab) habe ich das ähnlich wie hier: Mein Gedanke war, dass die VM ein festes Zuhause hat und bei Bedarf _random_ verteilt wird, nämlich da, wo...
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    VM friert bei Storage-Migration ein (Ceph)

    Hallo zusammen, wir betreiben einen Proxmox-Cluster bestehend aus mehreren Hosts mit Epyc 7702P + 512GB RAM + 2x 960GB SSDs (Boot) + 4x 3.84TB DC SSDs (Storage/Ceph). Auf drei der Hosts habe ich nun Ceph (via GUI Installer) installiert. Die Hosts sind über einen 25Gb Switch redundant...
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    different CPU models in a cluster

    I have servers with different CPU models in a cluster. So, want to create the config file /etc/pve/virtual-guest/cpu-models.conf with common flags for all my CPU. Is there any tool in Proxmox to automate this task? Manually compare flags and create config is a very long and error prone task...
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    migration of a virtual machine to another storage

    Hi, I'm trying to move VM from one node to another. I cannot use 'clone' because storage choosing option is unavailable. So I created backup and moved it to destination node. Now I'm getting error: no such volume group '<disk_name>' error. Okay, this storage doesn't exist on this node, how can...
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    Live migration with ceph sometimes fails

    Hi everyone, I'm using latest proxmox (6.3) and experiencing strange issue during live migration of KVM machines running on ceph block storage (ceph cluster was created through proxmox). Cluster is running fine for several years (was prevously on proxmox 5). This issue started only lately, I...
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    [SOLVED] Windows Blue Screen/Crash after V2V with NTFS-Errors caused by Antivirus Product

    Hello together, I just want to share an experience with migration of one of our servers which resulted in bsod right just before login screen appears. First of all, thanks for proxmox and its availability. We started with multiple test VMs and productive VMs being itself part of a testsytem...
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    Proxmox Replication - Storage full, even though it isn't

    Hey, I am migrating from CentOS to proxmox and have a problem setting up my storage: I've got two machines, each with 2* Samsung 1TB SSDs (mirrored), both running Proxmox. I've got one VM with a 800GB raw image on machine one and want to replicate it onto machine two. So I first set up the zfs...
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    [SOLVED] CentOS 7 Migration: From XenServer to Proxmox VE

    Hello everyone! I'm trying to migrate a VM from XeServer(6.5) to Proxmox(6.3-4) Until few days ago, I can do it following next steps: 1. Export VMs from XenServer like OVF ( .ovf + .vhd file) 2. Convert VM disk (.vhd file) to qcow2 format (with StarWind 2V2 Converter) 3. Create a VM with...
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    Proxmox VM migrieren und auf Standalone nutzen

    Hallo zusammen, weiß jemand, wie man eine Proxmox VM auf einen anderen Rechner (ohne Proxmox) exportieren/migrieren und nutzen kann? Ich habe eine VM auf meinem Proxmox Server, von der ich einen Klon gerne auf meinem Linux Notebook mitnehmen möchte. Geht das irgendwie? Vieleicht gibt's ja...
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    [SOLVED] Live migrations failing: Error 255 (for OVFTOOL/ESXi imported VMs)

    G'day there, With the help of the Proxmox community and @Dominic we were able to migrate our ESXi VMs across to PVE - thank you! https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/migrating-vms-from-esxi-to-pve-ovftool.80655 (for anybody interested) The migrated (ex-ESXi) VMs are now part of a 3-node PVE...
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    [SOLVED] Migrating VMs from ESXi to PVE (ovftool)

    G'day from Australia, We've got a predicament that we'd appreciate some guidance with. 4x managed VMs run on 2x ESXi hosts (2+2), and there's no supported pathway to migrate them (ie. ditch ESXi in favour of PVE). Across the remainder of our infrastructure, ESXi has been gladly purged and our...
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    live migration with proxmox 6.3

    I have installed two nodes of PVE 6.3 in VMware workstation and what I noticed "online migration" is available even when there is no shared storage. As far as I remember shared storage is required to do that. So how does it work here?
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    ZFS: Loaded module v0.8.5-pve1 stuck after migration pv5to6

    Hi Community, I Need your help, i've followed the guide pve5to6 to migrate my proxmox v5 sever to v6. When the migration was finished, i try to reboot, but i'm stuck with this message (cf attached file), i try to boot with old kernel version, same result. FYI, i've changed the value...

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