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    Grundsatz für Shared Storage

    Hallo liebe Community, ich würde gern meine gesamten Daten aus der Cloud nach Hause holen. Um das ganze grundsätzlich richtig aufzusetzen, habe ich noch eine Frage. Ich möchte gern meine Daten irgendwie zentral verfügbar haben, sodass Dienste, wie Immich, Joplin, Nextcloud, etc. darauf...
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    How can I get my storage data back?

    I had my Proxmox machine use a pair of HDDs in RAID1 to use for storing media files and it was set up as storage for Proxmox so my containers could use it. I had 4TB to use for storing media and I would have a container mount that drive. I wanted to update PVE from 8 to 9, so I backed up...
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    Windows VMs crashing / BSOD due to storage stalls

    Hello I've a serious problem with a PVE/PBS Node. 2 Windows VM that continuously log problems with Storage and sometimes they crash. Hardware/Software: Dell R440, PERC H730P (Non-RAID mode / true HBA mode confirmed via iDRAC — Controller Mode: HBA) Controller firmware: 25.5.9.0001 (confirmed...
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    NVMe Over TCP - Proxmox VE

    Hello Community, im currently in the progress of trying out nvme over tcp in Proxmox VE and wanted to ask, if somebody has ressources for: * Basic Setup of NVMe-Over-TCP in Proxmox VE? * Information about using basic nvme-cli vs nvme-stas -> benefits? * Measuring performance of nvme-over-tcp...
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    Officially Supported Datastore Backing Storage List

    Hello Everyone, apart from the S3 object storage and internal storage media (with ext4/xfs or ZFS) mentioned in the PBS documentation, what types of storage are supported as backing storage for PBS datastores? Specifically, I am referring to network storage such as a Synology NAS...
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    Call for Feature: Native LINSTOR Support

    This might have been asked before and maybe there are or they were reasons not to consider this. However, I'd like to start a public discussion about SDS in PVE and how to enable or optimize the PVE stack for various use cases. So for now we've got support for classic three-tier-infrastructures...
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    I lost my data thin lvm - how to re-create it?

    Trying to add a secondary hdd to my new proxmox-9 installation I managed to loose the data lv. root@pve:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert root pve -wi-ao---- 12.66g swap pve -wi-ao----...
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    make hdd available - how?

    a small 30G internal sdd plus a larger hdd in my proxmox and am wondering what is the way to make the larger hdd available for vms root@pve:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 29.3G 0 disk |-sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part...
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    Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 on Hezner SX135.

    Hetzner offers the SX server series, which are equipped with 4 to 14 hard drives, each with a capacity of 16 or 22 TB. The SX135 server comes with 8 drives, making it a good choice for backup storage. Unfortunately, after ordering this server and installing Proxmox Backup Server 4.2, I was only...
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    Thin LV cannot be activated (-ENODATA) despite valid metadata and readable ext4 filesystem

    Hi everyone, I'm trying to recover data from a Nextcloud storage volume after an unexpected failure and I'm running out of ideas. The goal is data recovery only (mostly family photos). I don't care about restoring the container itself. I found a few older threads with similar symptoms, but my...
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    Unable to destroy LXC container after CloudPanel installation (Logical volume contains a filesystem in use)

    Hi all, Although we are fully aware that CloudPanel does not officially support LXC containers, one of our clients installed it inside a non-nested CT without our knowledge. This is completely out of our administrative control, and we are now passively dealing with the aftermath. The main...
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    How pools use the space

    Hi, i'm workin with the api in the proxmox to get the available space we had in differents pools, but i see some curious thing with the api I get 9.6 tb availble but in the web interface show me with a simple substraction the space availble is 10 tb approximately, with gemini explain that is...
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    Storage: BTRFS vs ZFS vs plain EXT4 DM raid

    Hi all, Currently I am running on PVE 9.1 with native MDADM RAID5(3x8 TB disks) looking into prospects for switching to BTRFS or ZFS but every now and then power goes out. At the moment I got 4 TB used out of ~ 16 TB and despite some issues it works awesome. Anyone got experience with ZFS and...
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    Clustered iSCSI as LVM on LVM-Thin SAN

    Hello all. I am aware the issue of configuring LVM-Thin in a clustered environment with shared storage has been extensively discussed and why it is a really bad idea. However, l would like to ask this question from a different angle. When looking into our SAN storage configuration, there is an...
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    Supported way for a NAS across multiple nodes that supports thin disks, snapshots, live migrations, move disks, and HA?

    Coming from the VMware world, and deploying Proxmox 9.1.1 for the first time. Looking for the correct NAS setup to support the following shared iSCSI attached storage across all nodes Deploy Thin disk VMs perform snapshots live migrations / move disk (vmotion / storage vmotion) HA In VMware I...
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    VM freezes during snapshot/backup on NFS (Proxmox 9, no errors in logs)

    I have a Proxmox VE 9.1 production environment with 2 nodes and 1 qdevice (for quorum) using shared NFS storage. During snapshot or backup operations, VMs (especially Windows) become completely unresponsive: VM freezes completely Loses network connectivity (no ping) Console is frozen VM...
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    Ceph namespace support in PVE

    I want to connect my PVE datacenter to an external Ceph storage. On a pool on the external Ceph cluster, I created a namespace. Let's say my pool is called `testpool`, my namespace is called `testspace` and my user is called `testuser`. So what i did on my Ceph cluster is rbd namespace create...
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    Volume level caching

    hello proxmox community! I am in need of some advice pertaining to pve, storage configurations and what is possible natively to proxmox without editing the base installation. I have already looked on https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage#_storage_configuration and was unable to find, or perhaps...
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    Disk Type Support For iSCSI

    I attached an iSCSI Target to my node Created LVM from it They are shared between my 3 Proxmox nodes I cloned a VM from NFS to this LVM over iSCSI It took qcow2 as the format. I tried some API GET queries to fetch the disk info The VM is on n1 curl -k -H 'Authorization: PVEAPIToken=<token>'...
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    Thin provisioning not reflected in Proxmox LVM shared storage over FC multipath

    Hi team, I’m running a 4-node Proxmox cluster (version 9.1.6) connected to a Pure Storage SAN over FC (32Gb, dual port) using multipath. On the SAN side, volumes are configured with thin provisioning and data reduction. I present LUNs to all nodes and configure them as shared LVM storage in...