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    Homelab cluster - disk setup best practice guide, ZFS

    Hi - firstly, I have looked for a guide on how best to do this, but haven't found anything that I can make sense of, mostly because the majority appears to (understandably) be targeted towards Enterprise environments - if i've missed one, I would be very grateful for a link, and totally...
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    Mini PC with mvne + ssd Best setup

    Hello, i have a mini PC with mvne 128gb. Ah this moment i have proxmox Installed, a VM for Home Assistant, one lxc container with Maria DB, another VM with NextCloud. I want make upgrade with ssd disk 512gb. For mvne 128gb + ssd 512gb, what is the best setup for this software? Should have...
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    Hardware setup and config

    I am a software engineer so I am not as well versed in hardware/systems as some of you. I just bought a Dell PowerEdge R720 w /12TB of storage I want to be able to: Test Ansible playbooks for software application install and configs Run some web applications in my home Have decent file storage...
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    Suggestions to cover my use cases appreciated (setup recommendations)

    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...
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    Build advice to host TrueNAS Core and Plex

    My build started off a as an Unraid server but I'm now reconsidering going back to an earlier idea of running Promox as my hyper visor. Right now I have the CPU/MOBO/RAM and 4x NVME drives. In the coming weeks I plan on purchasing the HBA controller along with 8-12 SAS drives. I'm looking for...
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    Promox 7.1 setup stucks on Dell Power Edge R7525

    Hi, Proxmox 7.1 setup stucks on a new Dell Power Edge R7525 with: 02 CPU AMD 7302 3GHz,16C/32T,128M,155W,3200 128GB di RAM (04 x 32GB) Controller PERC H755 SAS Virtual Disk 01 = RAID 5 (04 x 600GB SAS 15K) Virtual Disk 02 = RAID 5 (03 x 900GB SAS 15K) Last messages before aborting the...
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    Proper storage setup

    Hey virtualizers, Alright so I want to wrap my head around a proper storage setup when setting up ProxMox. I installed in on metal, on a Xeon W 3670, my boot SSD is a 1TB WD Blue with a 2TB Seagate HDD. So, should I be using ext fs? I'm not setting up any RAID volumes, so I don't know that I'll...
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    Should I use IT Mode or RAID Mode in my controller

    Hi, I'm a new user to Proxmox, I haven't installed yet, just currently building the server it will sit on. Given Proxmox supports ZFS, should I use a RAID enabled controller, and let that deal with RAIDing the drives? Or should I use a RAID card flashed to IT mode, and allow ZFS to handle the...
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    Proxmox Setup for New User

    New Proxmox user. Installed Proxmox 7.2-1 on a SSD. After the installation I am asked to direct a web browser to a specific address. No matter what I do, I cannot get any browser to connect to the address. I suspect that proxmox is not connected to the internet. How does internet get setup...
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    Validation/Options for Proxmox with PfSense Build Home Webserver Hosting

    I don't have Proxmox and PfSense experience, but have watched a couple of YouTube videos about setup. Wonder if I can get any opinions from anyone with more experiance on a small self-hosted web hosting solution I’m imminently looking to setup. Networking Modem -> PFsense Box -> Managed Switch...
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    [SOLVED] Completely new to Proxmox: Getting setup

    So I recently bought a dell power edge r720 server with 6, 4tb hard drives, 2 500 gb ssds, a hba raid card, 192 gb of ram and I added two pci e name 500gb nvme drives. I set up the 6 4tb drives in raid 10 and installed Proxmox on them and now want to set up the two ssd's as caching, but also set...
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    TASK ERROR: command "blkid" "-o" "export" "/dev/sda1" failed - status code: 2 - no error message

    I've just installed PBS and I'm trying to create a Directory on my 10TB Seagate IronWolf drive. Unfortunately, right when I'm issuing the create command, this happens: TASK ERROR: command "blkid" "-o" "export" "/dev/sda1" failed - status code: 2 - no error message Obviously, if I look into...
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    How should I configure my drives

    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...
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    Volume das für die Proxmox-Installation vorgesehen ist wir nicht erkannt

    Hallo zusammen, danke für den Beitritt. Mein Problem: Wir haben 3 identische Server die im Cluster-Verbund installiert und konfiguriert werden sollen: ProLiant DL380 Gen10 und je eine Shelf über Direct Access verbunden. Jeder Server hat zwei lokale SSD-Platten und weitere Platten in den...
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    Not receiving email

    Hi There, This is my first time setting up and mail gateway and server so this might in itself be a very silly question however I can not seem to get this working. I have set up my mail server with iRedMail, I can confirm that this is working as I can send outbound emails from the mail server...
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    Relay ALL email to PMG, even local email: possible?

    Greetings, My postfix SMTP server hosts several virtual domains. Now I am trying to set up postfix to route ALL my email to Proxmox Mail Gateway. Simply putting: relayhost = [pmg-address]:26 in main.cf, almost does the trick: emails sent from a local domain to another local domain are...
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    PCI passthrough funktioniert nicht.

    Hi, Ich wollte PCI passthrough aktivieren, jedoch erhilet ich bei folgendem command diese fehler meldung: dmesg | grep 'remapping' DMAR-IR: This system BIOS has enabled interrupt remapping interrupt remapping is being disabled. Please Ebenfalls taucht folgende Fehler Meldung...
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    Broken release/installation?

    Hello, I'm new here, I wanted to try proxmox for switching from vanilla Ubuntu and Freenas and bhyve and that like => I understand the stuff quite a bit ;). The very recent proxmox downloaded today sucks somehow; my box: Supermicro X11SSL-CF, 64GB ECC, Xeon E3-1240v, 8 x 3.0TB + 2 x 4.0TB + 1...
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    "find /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/ -type l" does not yield anything

    Hello, I am stuck with PCIe Passthrough. I would appreciate every bit of help. My system setup is: CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2680 MB: ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 OS: PRoxmox VE 6.0 in UEFI As far as I know the Hardware supports PCIe Passthrough. I followed this guide...
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    [SOLVED] Setup/Config Recommendations

    This is my first time running my own virtualization environment. PVE looks like the best option. I'd like to get some advice on setting it up. I have a Supermicro box (HW RAID 1 available) with the following config 2x WD Red 4TB drives 1x 2TB NVME SSD 1x Xeon E 2136 2X 16GB RAM 2X 1Gbps NICs 5...