storage

Hello, I've been running into this issue recently where my cifs mount for "backup" randomly goes offline. The icon in the GUI has a question mark and I start seeing entries like this in the log: Oct 11 11:41:05 vmh01 pvestatd[1371]: unable to activate storage 'backup' - directory...

Hello, We are moving all of our VMWare virtual machines to Proxmox. Moving, converting, and transferring the .vmdk to our new Proxmox server is going fine. However, we have a 5TB vmfs5 Dell RAID storage that is being used as a company shared drive. The vmdk file for that storage space is of...

hii all. i am in the process of getting new hw and go to ceph storage i think my hardware will be based on 5 nodes each with with 3x pcie-nvme and 10x 2.5 ssds each the ssds 2.5 will be used for mostly read intensive access and the pcie-nvme will be used for os\sqldb and lxc containers...

Hi there, me and a friend are managing multiple gameserver, teamspeaks and low_access-websites for some friendly clans. Mostly we do it as a training for us themselves (trying new things; we are system engineers). Now we want to move on to new hardware and some questions arise: Currently we...

Hello, After adding and then removing a cephfs instance in the storage gui I noticed that it was not unmounted and/or deleted from /mnt/pve/[title]. I was wondering if this was intentional or not? Note: This was my 2nd cephfs storage instance in case that matters. I cannot remove my primary...

Hello, when try to add NFS storage, and submit information get this error create storage failed: error with cfs lock 'file-storage_cfg': mount error: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.100.5:/mnt/cache (500) the details: so need to do something manually before make this...

I am getting the error message "The installer could not find a supported hard disk." The server is using a dell PERC 6i raid controller, which, according to the official page, is supported by proxmox. I am using a 1tb sata hdd and a 2tb sata hdd. What should I do to start debugging?

Hello Dear Forum, i am still very new here and have only lurked before, but now i have encountered a problem that i can't seem to solve. I plan to build a server with Proxmox as a main OS and OMV (openmediavault) as a NAS VM. (specs if this is relevant that i want to use: 8GB RAM, 250GB m.2...

Hello, A nice Supermicro Server (CSE-216A-R900LPB, X8DTU-F mobo) has come into my possession from my employer. I am attempting to get a simple homelab setup to practice virtualization, devops and security work. It has come with twenty-four 120GB SSDs with an Adeptec RAID controller. I could use...

I have been looking at purchasing a HP Z800 workstation. The idea of have 12 cores/24 threads sounds like I can really be productive. I have yet to get the correct storage layout, but it would seem that the Z800 has only 4 drive bays and no real room to add for instance, a 1TB boot HD for...

Hallo zusammen. Ist es möglich die Migration, gerne auch offline, ohne Shared-Storage zu nutzen, dass also bei der Migration gleichzeitig automatisch das Image auf ein lokales Medium einer anderen Node umgezogen wird? Wenn ich das ohne Shared-Storage versuche, dann bekomme ich die Meldung...

Hello, I'm looking for help in a backup restore of OpenMediaVault in proxmox. So, today I have 4 VMs in proxmox, one of them (VMid 101) is OMV, where I use it as my storage for sharing content with my personal computer and other VMS. My hardware is compose by 3 HDs and 1 SSD where the...

We have 4 Proxmox host servers and two different NFS servers for VM storage. We usually we manually distribute the VM storage load between them. The two NFS storage servers are all flash and have 10 gig connections to our ProxMox hosts. A few times a year we need to update the firmware on our...

Da mir mein HP ProLiant G8 nicht mehr Performant genug ist habe ich mir neue Hardware angeschafft: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 ASRock X470D4U 16GB Kingston KSM26ED8/16ME Im alten HP ProLiant G8 hängt ein HP P212 Controller der wiederum ein logisches Laufwerk mit 8TB (RAID5) erzeugt. Als Host System...

Hallo zusammen, habe eine Verständnisfrage bzgl. LVM-thin Storage und dessen Metadata Usage... Ich habe zwei komplett voneinander unabhängige, alleinstehende Proxmox Server, die beide mindestens einen LVM-thin Storage für die VMs verwenden. Server A verwendet einen LVM-thin mit insgesamt 1,79...

Hi, I have a simple question which I would like to share with because I’m interested in you point of view. On a Proxmox server I have fast storage (SSDs or NVMe) and slow storage (SAS or SATA). My fast choice could be to install Proxmox on fast storage and use it also for storing virtual...

Hello, i need to shrink a windows vm disk (proxmox 5.3-8). I've already shrink partition inside guest os (windows 10 ltsc). Now i have to reduce vm disk size. Disk is on a zfs secondary storage: storageZ0:vm5002-disk-0,size=150G I have already made a backup. Can you help me? Davide

Hallo, ich bin ein eher stiller Mitleser und Selbstlöser durch bekannte Beiträge, aber irgendwie komme ich hier nicht weiter: Was ich möchte: VMs und CTs von einem alten Node zu einem neuen Node umziehen. Mein Problem derzeit ist, dass das local-zfs zu klein ist (< 30GiB) um größere VMs zu...

Hi, ich habe mein System auf zfs native Verschlüsselung umgestellt. Wie auf https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux wird automatisches laden des Schlüssels nicht angeboten. Ist auch nicht tragisch, kann man ja per cronjob o.ä. machen. Der Knackpunkt ist aber, ich habe ein Directory-Storage...

Hallo zusammen, könnt ihr mir bitte bei der Wiederherstellung meines proxmox-Servers helfen? Ich habe mein Proxmox-System auf ein neues System umgezogen. Dabei habe ich alle Server per Backup gesichert und wiederhergestellt - das hat soweit alles gut funktioniert. Bei einem Server hab ich aber...