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    AGPLv3 License Question

    Hello Proxmox Gurus! I'm an engineer working for a company that's looking to move away from VMware products and we're exploring Proxmox as a virtualization solution. In short, I'm looking to confirm that AGPLv3 is compatible with our product. Specifically, our product imports the PVE API...
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    TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Activation of logical volume pve/data is prohibited while logical volume pve/data_tmeta is active.

    When trying to start any virtual machine, the following error message is displayed: "TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Activation of logical volume pve/data is prohibited while logical volume pve/data_tmeta is active." I havae already tried to perform the procedures in the link...
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    USB 3.0 to SATA - Storage Disconnect

    Hi Proxmox folks, I have two external SSDs which I'm trying to connect to my Proxmox node via USB 3.0 to SATA cables. However, I'm seeing behaviour where I have one of them plugged into the USB 3.0 port running just fine, but when I plug the other one in, the first one disconnects :( Here are...
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    Why Does ZFS Hate my Server

    i have this bizarre situation where using ZFS on a Dell R730xd leads to something completely useless. i have spent most of an entire week trying to troubleshoot it in every manner possible. it simply. doesn't. budge. system topology: Dell R730xd it was two 2.5" sata ports in the back connected...
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    AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread, Veeam PM

    Hello everyone, Since Veeam community forum does not allow non-commercial domains to be used for registration, I decided to show up here and address any questions that you may have. I am a Senior Product Owner at Veeam and I am the one who oversees the integration with Proxmox VE. Ask away ...
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    newcomer to the KVM world, how can i evaluate poc?

    hello we are trying to move away from Broadcom and since we are a mixed shop (windows and linxu) i wanted to try ou proxmox, since i have heard good things about you guys. is there any through documentation on architecture, configuration and best practise? i want to start by evaluating the...
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    VM Migration Issue

    i know i should be able to do this, and various forum entries suggest the same, but for some reason i can't. i'm trying to migrate a vm from a zfs-local proxmox host, to a lvm-local proxmox host, both of which are on version 8.2. i installed proxmox on the destination host as ext4, then went to...
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    Best practice for PVE and PBS hosting

    Hi everyone, I hope you all are having a great day! I have used PVE with community support and today I bought a PBS subscrition with basic support. I am using Hostbill today for domain and DNS services and Hostbill supports both PVE and PBS and then authentication with the built Proxmox VE...
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    Windows Machines not seeing UUID

    i have a bunch of windows machiens on PVE 8 that i suddenly realize don't see their UUID, even though proxmox did assign them one in the options>bios. this is preventing certain software from functioning. is there additional config i need to do for the machines to see the uuid? additional...
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    Cannot Access Web GUI After Adding GPU

    I have been using Proxmox for a few days now without any major problem. I spun up a Turnkey-ZoneMinder container and added a second network adapter for a separate network that my cameras are on. It seemed to take fine and would connect to the cameras. I noticed some issues with decoding video so...
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    Stuck on Volume Group "pve" using metadata type lvm2

    after installing proxmox for the first time, and going through the system reboot, Proxmox gets stuck on this screen: FOUND VOLUME GROUP PVE using metadata type lvm2 3 LOGICAL VOLUME (S) IN VOLUME GROUP "PVE" NOW ACTIVE /DEV/MAPPER/PVE-ROOT: RECOVERING JOURNAL /DEV/MAPPER/PVE-ROOT:CLEAN...
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    ZFS over iSCSI with QNAP QuTS hero

    Hello everyone, I wanted to implement ZFS over iSCSI with my Proxmox-Cluster (4 nodes) and my QNAP SAN connected via 25G Ethernet. I have found a lot of forum entries on some relevant topics but I am missing a bit a general guidance. What I found is that there needs to be a "plugin"...
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    Wake-On-Lan problem

    Hello! I have been using Proxmox VE for my main server for about 2 years now it is allways on but in the start i set it up to work with wake on lan and it worked perfectly. Now i recently got second server to use as testing server not to use recources on my main server and i wanted to setup wake...
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    Quick wear out on raid1 - Looking for suggestions

    This been first deployment using raid1 using wd red ssd (not the best tier but would never expect such a quick wear out). Server been up for 75 days with wear out at 30% already (almost .5 % per day). Purpose of those drives was primary OS (only) but they also hold couple (11) virtual...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get Proxmox-VE to work with Netbox

    Netbox Version: 4.0.9 PVE Packages pve-manager: 8.2.4 (running version: 8.2.4/faa83925c9641325) ifupdown2: 3.2.0-1+pmx9 libpve-network-perl: 0.9.8 dnsmasq: 2.89-1 Netbox Configs Proxmox Setup I'm trying to use Netbox as an IPAM via the SDN feature and I just can't get it working as it...
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    PBS better on a NAS or PVE host?

    YES, I AM WELL AWARE THAT NEITHER IS SUPPORTED, pretty much nothing in my lab is ;), no need to tell me this 5 times. My own system, used only by me, if I break it or lose data, I won't come crying here, I promise. On some of my systems, I'm running PBS on the same host as PVE, and this works...
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    EXT4-fs error

    Hello, Every few days or hours my proxmox device crashes. Everytime I reboot the system it works for a while. I never had it connected to a monitor so I could never see any errors, until today. Today it crashed again and i got the follow errors: The OS is installed on a M.2 from Lexar NM710...
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    Shared iSCSI with different path per PVE node

    I have been successfully running an iSCSI setup for a while, but since updating to PVE8 and having a less than stable experience, I became less certain that my functional setup is also a supported one. I would appreciate any insight into what might be off here. Storage is a four port Synology...
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    vzdump namespace support when used with pbs.

    Hello, Currently vzdump on PVE has no namespace support, but instead relies on having the backup storage linked with a namespace in the storage configuration. While this is probably a perfectly fine option for some. In our case this would mean we need to connect roughly 600 storage drives to...
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    Problems with IOMMU being detected

    Hello everyone, I'm new to PVE and I have been struggling with using IOMMU. I have been trying everything I have seen on the internet, but I can't get IOMMU to be detected even though it's enabled. I have reinstalled PVE a couple of times but still it was not working, I tried booting with ZFS...

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