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I have been using PVE for some years and I want to also use PBS now. It seems like I don't quite get some of the concepts. My setup is: one PVE cluster and one PBS on a separate physical machine. The PBS has 1 SSD as boot drive (with zfs) and a raid-z2 array of 6 HDDs for storage (called...

Hi, new Proxmox/server user here. I'm having trouble configuring my machine to use all 3 TB of storage on my hard disk, I already have 3 VMs set up, and I noticed that the hard disk was being occupied way faster than I anticipated. then I saw the supposed maximum capacity. any ideas on how I can...

Hello everybody, 3 month ago i got a refurbished Fujitsu Q956 Mini PC to try out Proxmox and further possibilities for private use. It was more to learn and play around a little bit. Before I had no knowledge about VMs, Linux in generall and docker and so on. I got some very basic knowledge now...

hello, I have a Proxmox server, where i had 2x2tb drives in raid 1, one of the drives failed, and i dont currently have a replacement Yet, as i had just gotten these drives and they both have less than 4,000 hours on them. my question is complicated, i have 2x1tb drives laying around, i still...

Hi, I wanted to ask, I have a website that requires an SMTP server to send emails, what does Proxmox Email Gateway do exactly? Does it connect to an SMTP server or create it? I'm a bit confused

Hi folks, I'm a newbie and I got a server configured to have a 2TB RAID0 for system itself and 10TB RAID5 for other purposes under a hardware raid controller. I want to use a proportion of that 10TB as a NAS VM/container running on PVE. But I'm not sure how I can do this. It's strongly...

Hey, I've been running into an issue regarding kernel versions lately, I tried to install the hpsa driver using dkms and I got an error: ~# dkms build -m hpsa -v 3.4.20 Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 4.15.18-12-pve cannot be found. Please install the linux-headers-4.15.18-12-pve package...

I don't know why but my proxmox server doesn't appear in my router with all the other device. I can connect to it and it can be pinged with my main pc. Does someone have a way to make it appear ?

So I'm pretty sure I know the answer. I'm building a very small cluster for now. Two nodes. One hosts the NAS and SAN and a few other 'infrastrcture-y' things. The other hosts most of the VMs that I want to boot *from* the SAN. I can manually migrate them from the service node to the infra...

Hi! I'm pretty new to the world of proxmox and for work needs i'm trying to figure out how I may be able to use a set of 3 different USB disk in rotation (1 per week) for off-site backup. I've understanded that there's no integrated way to achieve this and i've already tried looking at others...

Hello, as the title already says, I would like to reinstall my Proxmox environment, as the current one has already been messed up a bit and partly serves as a playground. Among other things, this was there to gain experience with it. Now the question is, how do I best build the construct...

Hi there, Just installed proxmox, configured dhcp, but for some reason i cant access it with short host name (proxmox). Connecting via ip or fqdn (proxmox.*isp domain*) works fine. What am i doing wrong? My setup is router with inbuilt dns at 192.168.0.1, proxmox machine at 192.168.0.104...

So I'm trying to enable IOMMU so I can pas trough a PCIe device. I've follow the guide from the documentation but in the GUI it still says: "No IOMMU detected, please activate it.See Documentation for further information.". When verifying if IOMMU is enabled using dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU...

Hi, All! I have two PBS servers and sync job from "first PBS" to "second PBS". On the "second PBS" besides synced backups from "first PBS" I also have local backups. My sync@pbs("second PBS") user has only RemoteSyncOperator permission. Sync job has mark "Remove vanished". After Sync job done -...

I recently got a great deal on a used Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF that I plan to run PVE 6.3 on. The system has a single M.2 NVME slot and only uses a single SATA power cable coming from the motherboard that splits out to a standard sized SATA power and a slimline SATA power that connects to the...

Hello, I am trying to passthrough my SATA controller by following the Wiki page, but it still not work and show a "No IOMMU detected" notice in the web. I have edit the grub command line and enable the kernel module: The VT-D option on my BIOS is enable, and dmesg is shown that it's working...

Seit mittlerweile einigen Wochen beginnen alle Proxmox, mit denen ich intern oder extern zu tun habe, die Storage nicht mehr zu erkennen! Egal ob "data"- , "local"- oder Backup-Storage. In weiterer Folge werden dann auch die VMs alle mit Fragezeichen und ohen Daten angezeigt. Würde für mich...

Hi All! Is it possible to update templates automatically? I'm guessing I'd need to clone the vm, update the os, then create the template over the old one. I'd like to do it for both windows/linux templates too. My use case is, If all the vm needs to do is update, I can keep it on a MUCH more...

Hello, If a package has been added to the no-subscription-repository and is later found to have stability/bug issues, is it removed from the repository at that time?

Hi I am not familiar with the Proxmox tool. Could you please guide me through the usage of the tool:) and its benefits?