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    [SOLVED] sometimes it is just maddening

    because i fail to understand i share my clumsly learnings with proxmox For some reason or other i wanted to explore how to configure two bridges using a single NIC. Eventually this resulted in the faint hearted decisions to set the gateway of vmbr0 to 0.0.0.0, because who knows, it might just...
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    How to use a physical block for a VM

    Hi, apologies if it is a stupid question, I am a newbie to both proxmox and KVM. Is it possible to use an existing physical block for creating a VM? A bit of context: I am in the process of consolidating all home PCs into one Threadripper system. on my old PC I have one windows and one...
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    [SOLVED] Design recommendation Proxmox with virtual SAN/NAS?

    Hi, I am new in the field of virtualization and I would like to use Proxmox on a server. Already I read a lot, but I am not sure how to design the system in a good way. This is the basic hardware: Supermicro server with 2x 16 Cores with 2,3 GHz with VROC enabled Two M.2 NVMe disks for Proxmox...
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    German template rückgängig

    hallo ich bin noch recht neu in proxmox dachte template ist eine art von backup oder so... habe jedenfalls meine vm in ein template konventiert..... das hätte ich gerne rückgängig gemacht......
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    Network Bond not working to VM

    I am new to proxmox as of a few weeks ago, and am trying to replace VMware because I'd rather avoid paying VCenter pricing to save the department money. So all advice is welcome during their trial period. On our servers, we have dual NIC cards, after some time, I was able to get a continuous...
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    Ceph how to ? scenario

    hi there. I read everywhere about Ceph, I understand what's the meaning of it, but I don't know how to use it. for example, I have 2 CPD, 3 servers and a SAN storage in each. and also both CPD are connected with 10GbE could I use ceph in this scenario ? if not, could you tell me a typical...
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    New setup with disparate hardware; have many questions....

    Have a small Proxmox setup at home with two DELL T30's 32GB ram 1 xeon CPU and ZFS with SSD caching set up. It's been great for playing, testing and running the few VMs that I use at home. Now the fun part... I teach at the local community college and was asked recently to look at hosting a...
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    Both bridge and NAT for home server?

    Hi, I have installed Proxmox on top of an existing Debian server (so I can encrypt all the disks) at home and the bridged network is working well: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eno1 inet manual auto vmbr0 iface vmbr0 inet static address 192.168.0.31 netmask...
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    How can I move my simple rpool from a spinning drive to my new SSD?

    This is a simple question, but I haven't been able to figure out a solid solution. I run a simple Proxmox install with a zfs "pool" on 1 disk drive. Now I want to move all of that data onto a new SSD drive. How can I do this? Here is the output of zpool list: rpool/ROOT on /rpool/ROOT type...
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    [SOLVED] Import Virtual Machine in local-lvm

    Hello, I'm new on proxmox (4.2) and I try to import my VMs (vdmk format). So I read the documentation. I try to import Metaspoitable, a vulnerable VM. So I ignored windows specific instructions and I just do this: 1) I create my VM on the web proxmox interface 2) I copy Metaspoitable.vdmk...
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    Newbie thread

    Hi, I'm new to proxmox 4.1. I really like proxmox and what it's about. I'm posting this thread because I'm a newbie to the industry. Meaning I don't understand the "lingo" (language and vocabulary of the industry) but I really want to learn and have big hopes for using proxmox 4.1 and beyond...

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