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Greetings all, I am new to Proxmox and currently investigating the possibility of setting up a scalable virtual infrastructure using Proxmox VE and have what is probably a very "noob" sort of question. Is there a requirement for the hardware nodes in a cluster to be matching (i.e. CPU, RAM...

Hi Community, I am a very newbie and just installed proxmox 2 days ago used to run docker containers on a laptop before the whole homelab thing. Please help me decide storage setup, this is my setup/plan: 1 X 1TB Nvme for all vms and proxmox (1 more will be added later) 1 X20TB drive for...

How can I add a new disk to my setup which has already fully encrypted disk attached to it? Whats the best way to do it? I need to more space and I'm wondering whats the best way to do it Im still pretty new to this

Hello all, iam completly new to proxmox I just installed it on a Dedicated Server and now I cant figure out how to proper setup the network. I have for now two public ipv4 adresses I can use. The first one is completly reserved for the proxmox host. The second public IP adress I want to point...

Hello everyone, I am relatively new to homelabbing but have never yet used Proxmox. Though, I've always been tinkering with IT stuff and am also working in the field. Finally, I want to realize my own homelab/NAS combo. My plan is to use Proxmox VE as a host and virtualize TrueNas Scale. I'd be...

Forgive me in advance, I've been a VMware admin for over 20 years and am moving to Proxmox in my home lab. Having some mind-wrapping issues around some things that I'm hoping to bounce off a few folks. First, the setup, My vSphere cluster was backed by a TrueNAS Scale box running on some...

Hey everyone, I’ve used EXSI / XEN / Hyper-V in the past, so I’m familiar with Hypervisors, etc The machine I would be installing Proxmox on would be: Dell Precision 7865 Specs: Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5945wx (12 Core / 24 Threads) 128GB DDR4-3200 NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB ECC Storage: Onboard...

Moved to correct forum: New Build Advice v2 -- Hello, I would like to build a Proxmox server to use as my main PC. I'm wondering if it is possible to have the OS - Proxmox - utilise the CPU's built in graphics chip while passing the GPU entirely through to a dedicated gaming VM. I would have a...

Hi, I recently set up a proxmox on an old PC. My proxmox and VMs are all on a 1 TB NVME right now. I want to add a 256 GB SATA SSD as the proxmox system drive to system and use the 1 TB NVME exclusively for the VMs. I was wondering how to achieve that. i.e. how to back up these VMs in a way so...

I'm new to proxmox, I have been trying to work on some of my containers but it have been a pain. When I try to setup a new service I have to write the code from manuals by hand and I cannot copy and paste from my client to VMs. I have been using noVNC because SPICE and xterm.js are not working...

I have a fresh install of proxmox ve 8.2 and after I have set everything up I logged into the machine using my web browser, went straight to creating a VM. After my VM was created I logged into it and suddenly I lost connection to my server. I thought it might of been an error in my network...

Hey Guys, I am very new to Proxmox, and looking at it to replace ESX, as our costs have ramped up. I do appreciate these are newbie questions, however before I get some hardware to create a lab and learn I wanted to learn from the Kings here ! So to cut a long story short, im just looking at...

Hi I have never used proxmox before but i cant get a clear answer from the web. so i thought id ask. the system inquestion is a 5900x/32gb ram/1080ti. lots of hard drives spinning with media, a 2tb 990pro nvme, and a 512gb pm9a1 nvme. i have always used windwos and i use virtualbox to host ...

Hi, i am completely new to Proxmox, LXC and network management, it's just a hobby for me. I've installed Proxmox VE on an home server and create 2 LXC, so far so good. Now I want to use a DDNS (provided by noip) to access all my server remotely by changing the port used. Previously, on a...

Hello there Has motherboard with realnek network card and pci-e. I installed proxmox using gui and my graphics card. Now - when i disable my monitor (gpu is still installed in motherboard, just without any output) - it does not access from my local network. i do not know why. Journalctl is OK...

hi ! very very new to proxmox and virtualization im trying to get dns to work so i can use a bittorrent container, probleme is i cannot ping google.com or 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 name it.. neither on the node neither on the container - i can ping whats inside my local network but nothing outside...

I am learning. I had a small server running (2c/2t, severely underpowered box). I reinstalled that server several times just fine. Got used to making VMs. Then I borrowed two computers from work (6c/12t much better boxes). I installed on those two machines just fine. I made a cluster; I made...

Hi there, I am new to Linux and ProxMox, but decided to give it a try! :) I want to offload containers running on my Desktop PC and from my Synology NAS and run them on a Mini PC (Beelink SEi12 with and Intel 12th Gen i5-1235U, 32 GB RAM and 512 SSD) I installed ProxMox following a guide...

Hi, just starting out on my virtualisation journey after mainly using Synology kit, but wanting to try a more flexible platform and learning something new along the way. I have been trying to find as much information as possible on initial set up and configuration and although I feel I've made...

I set a dns name with duck dns to my ip address and it worked fine a while them I could not got to the web ui anymore. I could not ssh to the server either. I accessed directly the server and I discover that my two network interfaces where missing and vmbr is still there but gave an error as...