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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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    Migrate between two nodes with zfs (node1) and lvm (node2)

    Hi, is it possible to migrate a VM from node1 (zfs with direct disk access) to node 2 (lvm with hardware raid)? When i add the zfs storage (node 1) to both nodes, it is unkown on node 2. Greetings Jens
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    Ceph LXC Volume Migration in anderen Pool

    Hallo, ich habe einen Linux Container mit einem großen Ceph RBD Volume das ich in einen anderen Pool verschieben soll. Aus der GUI ist das aber nur mit heruntergefahrenem Container möglich. Das Kopieren würde ca. 2 Tage dauern, daher habe ich mich nach Alternativen umgesehen und bin auf den...
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    VM Migration in 2-Knoten Cluster nach Ausfall eines Knotens

    Hallo zusammen, wir haben einen 2-Node Cluster mit Proxmox 7.x und identischer Hardware. Storage der VMs befindet sich auf ZFS. Über die in Proxmox integrierte Replikation wird der Storage alle 15 Minuten synchronisiert. Alle VMs waren auf einem Knoten aktiv und wurden auf den zweiten Knoten...
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    Host CPU & Windows activation

    If I were to set VM CPU type to host and then migrated an activated Windows 2019 VM between a node using XEON Gold 6152's and XEON Silver 4114's - would this cause a re-activation event ?? If so whats the best CPU type to use - I see posts for both Qemu and KVM64. TIA Dave
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    maintenance practices.... Distributed migrateall?

    Howdy all! I'm moderately confident this is a solved problem.... I've a 6 node cluster of dell r720xd's. each with 24 SSD OSDs (pve 7.3 upping to kernel 6.1 now..... ceph pacific.. (will go to quincy after living with 6.1 for a little bit) What's the optimal way to evacuate vms/offline...
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    ZFS replication & migration fails after migration (CT & VM)

    Hello everybody, After tinkering a little big with PBS, I have uninstalled it and installed PVE too in my second node. Then I have tried to set up replication between both of my nodes. Everthing worked well at the end. Then I tried migrating a CT and a VM to my new node. After that, in the web...