overprovisioning

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    Overprovision CPUs

    My host has 4 cores 8 threads. Does it make sense to allocate 8 vCPU to all my LXC and VMs if I know that none of them will ever max out all 8vCPU at the same time? I'm not sure if that will create any scheduling issue or overhead as compares to allocate a smaller number to each of them. I saw a...
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    disable RAM overprovisioning

    Is it possible to disable RAM overprovisioning? I'm new to Proxmox. I created and started more VMs that I have physical RAM. I'm familiar with ballooning and the VMs have the ballooning driver installed in the guest, but the startup of the VMs happened too quickly so a VM that was running for...
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    Best overprovisioning settings for this setup?

    So I'm setting up a small homelab on a PC: CPU: Intel Xeon E31268L v3 - 4 cores 8 threads - Around an i7 4770 in performance RAM: 16GB DDR3 SSD: 128GB mSata => Boot and VMs HDD: 2x8TB HDD 1Gbps Network I'll install Proxmox on that and set up these VMs: 1. OpenMediaVault 6 with the 2x8TB HDD...
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    Thin Overprovisioning (out of space on Thin LVM)

    Hi, One of my VM does not start (hang on "recovering journal"). I free some space on other VM (same disk) but it did not help. The problem is disk free space. How can I fix it? LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert data pve...

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