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    Which partition for SAN with SAS disks

    Good morning everyone. I have this problem, I installed a proxmox ve 8.2.7 on 3 HP D560 nodes and created a cluster without problems. as dedicated disks for the VMs I have an HP P2000 G3 san with SAS connection. on this san i created two volumes in raid 6 one of 13 TB and the second of 8 TB...
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    Incremental backups Configuration

    Hello, I am reaching out to inquire about the possibility of configuring incremental backups for virtual machines in a Proxmox virtual environment. Is it possible to configure incremental backups without Proxmox Backup Server ? Could you please provide guidance on the process or any best...
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    [SOLVED] Making rpool mirrored if it was not already

    Hello everyone, I am wondering how to make "rpool" mirrored of a PVE which is not mirrored ? the hypervisor has been installed / prepared on RAID 0 now I want to mirror it. Is it possbile to mirror it? if yes could you please help me know how that can be done? Thanks Yaseen
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    A Little Scheduling Help

    Hi all, i have an extremely simple question that i just. can't. figure. out. i think i have tried about every combination possible, so i just gave up and am asking for someone to take 30 seconds and write it out for me. simple question: i need a proxmox backup scheduled between 8:00 and...
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    Migration between PVE and PVE cluster

    Hi, I've created a cluster of 3x PVE nodes and attached Cepth storage. My old PVE is a single host with a ZFS local storage. The challenge is to "migrate" (but it's not a simple migration) CT and VM from the old PVE to the cluster. How to do that ? I've tried to copy the storage of a test CT...
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    How does using ZFS to mirror PVE (and nothing else) impact separate disks (for VM and container storage) that also use ZFS?

    I have some filesystem questions regarding PVE, ZFS and how they interact with VMs. The storage system I'm trying to achieve consists of 5 physical disks: Physical Disk Purpose RAID Disk 1 + Disk 2 PVE + mirror ZFS mirror Disk 3 + Disk 4 VMs and container storage a mix of striping and...
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    Can't start backup process on PBS

    Hi, Im trying to configure PBS for my PVE. I added the Datastore and connected it to PVE. But here comes the problem everytime i want to start the backup proces i get this error: NFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 101 --mode snapshot --storage PBS --node pve --remove 0 --notes-template...
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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...